The Reserve Guide
What the numbers mean, what the labels hide, and how long any of it takes.
MECHANISMWhy Iron Is Hard on a Stomach, and What Changes It
Ferrous sulfate roughly doubles the odds of stomach trouble against placebo. What the same trials show is that the dose is not ...
MECHANISMWhat Competes With Iron at Absorption
Coffee does not cancel iron. It competes with it, in the same stretch of intestine, over the same few minutes. The subject is t...
MECHANISMWhat L-Lysine Is Doing in an Iron Formula
Lysine reads like it wandered in from another aisle. The honest answer to why it is there ends somewhere less certain than most...
MECHANISMPlant Iron and Animal Iron: Why the Form Matters More Than the Amount
Two foods can list the same milligrams of iron and deliver very different amounts. A label counts what is present, not what cro...
MECHANISMChelated Iron and Iron Salts: Why Tolerance Differs
Two bottles both say iron. One says ferrous sulfate, the other ferrous bisglycinate. Here is what that word changes inside the ...
MECHANISMWhat Lactoferrin Actually Does With Iron
Lactoferrin is a protein that binds iron. What it does, why it costs so much, and the difference between an ingredient named an...
MECHANISMFerritin and Iron Are Not the Same Test
One line on a lab report counts the iron that is moving. The other counts the iron that is kept. They are not answering the sam...
