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by klodolph 2734 days ago
> In healthy people, excess iron is not absorbed in your small intestine and is passed along with other digestive waste.

How do you reconcile this with the fact that it’s so easy to get iron poisoning? This used to be a problem until the 1980s or so, when US regulations were changed and now iron supplements aren’t available in the quantities they used to be.