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My sister asked why I stopped taking my iron pills and I didn't have a real answer
She's a nurse in Des Moines and she asked me last month why I quit taking iron after 6 weeks, and I said it made my stomach hurt so I just stopped. She asked if I took it with coffee in the morning. I did, every single day, a full mug about 10 minutes after the pill. She said coffee can cut iron absorption by like half, and vitamin C does the opposite, so all those weeks I thought the pills weren't working, I was basically washing them down the drain. I switched to taking it at night with a glass of orange juice and my 3 month bloodwork finally moved for the first time. Now I'm wondering how many other supplements people quit on just because of the timing, has anyone else had a pill that worked fine once they changed when they took it?
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simonk988d ago
Honestly coffee isn't quite half, more like 40%, but yeah timing matters.
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