The plant-based alternative to iron supplements
Spirulina naturally enriched with iron is a plant-based alternative to conventional iron supplements for tackling iron deficiency.
For high iron needs, our Organic Spirulina Iron provides 93% of the daily iron intake.
Why iron-enriched spirulina?
The plant iron in iron-enriched spirulina is absorbed at the same rate as the iron in red meat – it is highly bioavailable.
At the recommended dose, iron-enriched spirulina covers 93% of the recommended daily intake. This form of iron is particularly well tolerated and has none of the side effects (constipation, abdominal pain, nausea…) often associated with standard conventional treatments.
Spirulina also provides protein, vitamins, minerals and pigments such as beta-carotene (provitamin A), vitamin E, magnesium, zinc, calcium, selenium…
You therefore get all the benefits of the alga to combat tiredness.
This iron-enriched blue alga helps you recharge your batteries over the long term.
The benefits of iron-enriched spirulina
The iron in enriched spirulina is easily absorbed by the body (at rates equivalent to those of red meat).
The value of iron supplementation has been demonstrated. Iron contributes to:
- normal cognitive function.
- normal energy-yielding metabolism.
- normal oxygen transport in the body
- the normal function of the immune system.
- the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
- normal cognitive development of children
Iron-enriched spirulina: who is it for?
Iron supplementation is recommended to:
- Treat iron deficiency
- Prevent iron deficiency in the groups most at risk:
- Teenage girls, from their first period, while they are still growing
- Women who have been iron deficient in the past
- Sportswomen: destruction of red blood cells + tiny blood losses due to muscle micro-injuries
- Vegetarian or vegan women whose diet excludes red meat, the main source of haem iron
- Women with heavy periods
- Women with a copper IUD, which causes heavy bleeding
- Pregnant women, because of the increase in maternal blood volume and the higher needs of the developing foetus
Iron deficiency can be strongly suspected in an at-risk person with symptoms of iron deficiency, or confirmed by a blood test (ferritin < 30 µg/L).
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