• otto_von@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Maybe they made multiple X rays and looked at how much the iron in his body decreased

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      7 months ago

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259445/

      Iron toxicity from a patient that literally just took too many supplements.

      You know how they say everybody has about a nail’s worth of iron in their body?

      It turns out that you definitely don’t want a pound of it in your stomach.

      Also turns out that a lot of other metals are the same kind of thing. Not gold though, it’s generally not chemically active, so eat all the gold you want.