is it healthier to eat no meat?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If it's not a good idea, why do so many people WITH medical degrees prescribe it (either taking heme supplements or including some heme-rich foods in a diet)?

Also, have you looked up the requirements for a 4-year degree in nutritional science? Course work includes things like biochemistry, organic chemistry, physics, genetics, and molecular biology.

Boru

It's a different thing if you know you actually have anemia and that it's actually caused by a lack of iron. In that case, maybe taking heme iron supplements is justified. In general, it certainly isn't.

Dude, 95% of the iron in your body IS heme iron. When that percentage drops, the obvious thing to do is replace it, with either diet or supplements. You don't need to be a Croatian philologist to understand that taking iron is a reasonable treatment for iron deficiency.

I'm unsure why a doctor would prescribe iron for someone who is not iron deficient.

Boru