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There's a hidden cause of arthritis, especially if it's in these knuckles right here,

the knuckles of the first digit and the second on either side and the knee joint,

but this arthritis could be in other joints as well. And that hidden cause is iron overload.

Let me explain. There's a condition called hemacromatosis, okay? Now that can come from either a

genetic cause or it could come from your diet or a medical procedure where you're given a

transfusion or other causes that I'm going to talk about. The point you need to know is that too much

iron in the body is very, very toxic and our body has no mechanism for getting rid of too much iron.

And the first symptom of iron overload is arthritis of the hands and the knees. And specifically,

like I mentioned, the knuckles. Now there are a lot of other symptoms related to iron overload as

well, like fatigue, like abdominal pain or bloating, like liver cirrhosis, insulin resistance,

diabetes, erectile dysfunction, hypogonanism, and an overall increase in infection because

certain pathogens live off of iron. So the more that you feed them, the more that they can grow.

Excessive iron is especially toxic to the liver as well as the pancreas and the heart.

But this iron can lodge in your liver and create all sorts of problems. So the more the liver is

dysfunctional or damaged, the more problems you're going to have with iron since the liver is a

really key organ in hemochromatosis. So if you are on Tylenol that destroys the liver, for example,

or let's say you're on a hard carb diet that leads to a fatty liver, you may have more iron that

builds up in your body. Now from a dietary standpoint, let's say you do a couple tablespoons of

molasses every day, molasses is loaded with iron. And so that's one source of iron overload.

But probably a bigger source would be in the multivitamin mineral that you're taking right now.

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