Does anyone know what hemochromatosis is and what does it do to your body?

Hemochromatosis attacks some of the major organs of the body, if you do not keep it under control. Now what do you have to do to achieve that and what are the organs? And what is it?

Hemochromatosis is a genetic disease where you can't metabolize iorn properly. It is much more common in whites. Your body absorbs iorn even when you have enough, and you start to get overloaded in iorn. It can also be called "bronze diabetes" because the iorn can accumulate in your skin, causing a bronze appearance, and the iorn can accumulate in your pancreas, causing it to dysfunction, resulting in diabetes. It can also cause liver cirrhosis and heart failure.

If you have a relative that has been diagnosed with this disease, you should be screened. catching it early means that you just go donate blood every so often to deplete your iorn stores. (Yes, the medical profession still uses bloodletting in some cases!) You can prevent most of the problems this way. Also avoid taking a multivitamin with iorn in it.

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