How can I combat iron deficiency anaemia?
Professor of iron biology at the University of Oxford  About a third of the worlds population is anaemic; half of the cases are caused by iron deficiency. Groups in whom iron deficiency anaemia is particularly common are children under five, premenopausal women and pregnant women. To treat iron deficiency anaemia, people are commonly given iron tablets, often three a day. There is not great evidence for this dose, and in these high quantities the iron may not be absorbed well into the body and can cause unpleasant gastrointestinal side-effects. Sponsored  The reason for poor absorbance after several iron tablets is because of a hormone called hepcidin. Hepcidin controls the amount of iron in the body by blocking absorption of dietary iron. The more hepcidin we make,