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Haemochromatosis
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Also known as: haemochromatosis · iron storage disease · iron overload · bronze diabetes · siderosis · too much iron in the blood · hereditary haemochromatosis · HFE gene · iron overload liver · haemosiderosis
Your Body Is Speaking
Haemochromatosis is a genetic disorder. That is important, and it belongs at the beginning: your body stores more iron than it can break down, because an inherited predisposition has altered the regulatory mechanism. This excess iron deposits in organs — liver, heart, pancreas, joints — and can cause serious damage there. The medical treatment, above all the regular phlebotomy, is not an option but a necessity. That is beyond question.
And at the same time, a question arises that goes beyond genetics: What does it mean when a body holds on to everything? When it accumulates iron — the hardest, densest element in your blood — as though it were a safe that can no longer be opened? When it literally overfills itself with the substance that stands for strength?
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