The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
Albumin: 4.3 4.9 (out of range)
Iron: 71 191 (!) (out of range aka into the stratosphere)
Albumin binds to testosterone and renders it inert, much like SHBG (discussed in "Sex
Machine") but weaker. I don't want either to be out-of-range high. Bad for the manly arts.
If you said "Holy sh*t!" when you saw the iron jump, we're in the same boat. This result was
completely out of the blue and is not good, especially in men. It might come as a surprise, but
men don't menstruate. This means that men lack a good method for clearing out excessive iron,
which can be toxic.2 The increase in iron was far more alarming to me than the changes in
cholesterol.
Here is just one of several explanations from the research literature:
In addition to contributing to metabolic abnormalities, the consumption of fructose has
been reported to a ect homeostasis of numerous trace elements. Fructose has been shown
to increase iron absorption in humans and experimental animals