Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode

467 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon, and you are

very welcome. This is the third episode in a series of three episodes we are having on the topic

of Iron. And in the previous couple of episodes, which I hope you have managed

to listen to, we've covered different aspects of iron. In our first episode of the series,

Dr. Austin Baraki was on talking about various aspects of iron homeostasis, iron testing, clinical

presentation of iron deficiency, how treatment should

go about that, diagnosis of that, and various aspects of issues to do with iron in terms

of its role in health, as well as treating iron deficiency, and then things from a medical

and clinical perspective.

In the second part of the series, Professor Paul Sharp was on the podcast to discuss iron and particularly dietary intake and supplemental intake of iron and how that plays a role in health. And now in the third part of this iron series,

uniquely looks at it through the lens of how iron deficiency plays out.

An athlete's particular causes of that,

and athlete specific concerns and treatment.

And perhaps no better expert to turn to in this case than to Professor Peter Peeling,

who is a professor in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia, where

much of his work over the years has related to iron in athletes, so looking at iron absorption,

metabolism, iron deficiency, all in the context of various

types of athletes and how they may present. And this has ranged all the way from his original

PhD in the area, which we will maybe reference in relation to some of the mechanisms related

to iron deficiency later on in this conversation, but into much of his

later work where he's now seen as an established expert in this particular area. But of course,

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