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Why do you need iron to live?

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∙ 16y ago
Updated: 9/7/2023

The main use of iron in the body is to make heme, the protein building block of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the oxygen transporter molecule in red blood cells. There are also other uses but together they take far less than the production of heme does.

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