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I was told (I believe by a doctor) that the iron you get from vegan sources isn't readily absorbed anyway. It id best to get heme-iron from meat as it is readil

I was told (I believe by a doctor) that the iron you get from vegan sources isn't readily absorbed anyway. It id best to get heme-iron from meat as it is readily absorbed

ryanmercer 7y ago
This is true, however it's not as severe as people think and you can easily get several hundred % of the RDA of iron in a day on a whole food, plant based, diet. https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/iron/ https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/iron/ has some content that covers this /r/plantbasediet semi-regularly has this come up in threads too