Millions of dollars are spent annually on finding out why certain women cannot have a child. The quest is often fruitless and the couple never realizes that one or both have iron overload which affects their hormone balance which therefore makes them incapable of normal reproductive function. Cirrhosis of the liver is a result of advanced iron overload in the liver and can occur with or without alcohol abuse. Many patients require a liver transplant, often, without realizing that the patient has iron overload, hemochromatosis. Many patients who have iron overload are seeing cardiologists but have never been screened for iron overload.
Iron is in the joints and is painful.
At the 1996 convention of the American College of Arthritis doctors related to the Iron Overload Diseases Association that they were seeing more and more hemochromatosis patients in their practices. However, whatever kind of cancer it is, it will thrive on high iron in the body. Every cancer patient should be screened at diagnosis of their cancer for hemochromatosis.