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Many people have too much iron in their bodies.
If a blood test reveals your serum iron level to be over 100 micrograms per deciliter, it would be desirable to lower iron to under the 100 mark. A practical way of lowering iron is to interfere with its absorption from food. That's a simple and inexpensive way to reduce iron in the blood. This is especially important for hepatitis C patients who suffer liver cell damage when the hepatitis virus interacts with iron. In order to obtain 300 mg of calcium, it is necessary to take a calcium supplement that supplies 300 mg of elemental calcium.