My understanding is that both C and B vitamins help your body absorb iron, plus a B-12 deficiency is responsible for some forms of anemia (and might, come to think of it, be contributing to RLS -- you might ask the folks at Comm Pharm about this).
One of the side effects of my treatment for TB in the early '90s was that it permanently screwed up my body's ability to absorb B vitamins, which ultimately resulted in an iron deficiency -- not because I wasn't getting enough iron, but because I wasn't absorbing enough B vitamins and thus my body couldn't *process* the iron that it was getting. (I discovered this when I tried to give blood, go figure.) When I talked to the good people at Community Pharmacy about this, they said "Oh, you need the Stress-B complex that the Willy St Co-op sells" -- it's a B-complex with iron and C. And it works for me; I'm still on it, in fact.
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Date: 2011-02-12 02:00 am (UTC)One of the side effects of my treatment for TB in the early '90s was that it permanently screwed up my body's ability to absorb B vitamins, which ultimately resulted in an iron deficiency -- not because I wasn't getting enough iron, but because I wasn't absorbing enough B vitamins and thus my body couldn't *process* the iron that it was getting. (I discovered this when I tried to give blood, go figure.) When I talked to the good people at Community Pharmacy about this, they said "Oh, you need the Stress-B complex that the Willy St Co-op sells" -- it's a B-complex with iron and C. And it works for me; I'm still on it, in fact.