Congrats on the reduced ferritin! I have had to do a whole bunch of label reading when I found out I had HH. There are bunches of protein powders on the market and I have seen iron content per serving listed at 0% daily allowance and up to 40%. Since with HH we absorb at around 4 times normal then I *try* to keep iron intake to less than 25% for the whole day. It's more trouble than it's worth to be exact so generally when I see something with around 10% or greater RDA iron/serving for just that item I try to stay away from it. Sometimes I wonder if labels are correct. If you look at Swanson Vitamins Pea Protein Powder the organic version is no iron but the regular version has 32%. That 32% makes me nervous enough to stay away from both versions. Most of the whey isolate powders seem to be low iron. I'm currently using MRM All Natural Whey which claims to be 0% RDA iron. Why is this whey powder 0% and others not 0? I don't know. Some labels don't even list iron content and I stay away from those. Good luck on your search.

Mike.

Thanks Mike, really useful, I contacted MyProtein and they confirmed there is zero Iron in their Isolate Whey protein, so I am going with that, but I will soon know if my ferritin levels increase! I have to say I feel very lucky I have HH and that my liver is ok as I have a real reason to be a lot healthier and to be honest I don't think I would have been this healthy without it. Thanks again for your post.

Love my non-gmo egg-white protein power (Jay Robb)- claims 0% iron. I attempt to limit sugar, so this has always been a good option for my protein. Eggs & HH are the best of friends.

HI Sluggercourt,

I recently did some research on protein powders as I wanted to lose some weight. I found that most of them exceeded the RDA for iron if you take more than one per day so I won't take them as I have HH. I don't even want to take one per day as there is iron in the other food that we eat.

I asked the "doctors" that work for some of these products to confirm that their product did not exceed the RDA for iron and they said not.

However, the RDA for iron is different for men and women at different ages - and not one "doctor" asked me my age and they all quoted only a standard RDA which exceeded all but one age group. They seem to think that consuming excess iron is a good thing.

For babies and children of both genders up to 13 years old and for men and women over 51 years the RDAs are the same (birth to 6 mths / 0.27 mg; 7-12 mths / 11 mg; 1-3 years / 7 mg; 4-8 years / 10 mg; 9-13 years / 8 mg; 51+ years / 8 mg).

For age group 14-18 years the RDA for males is 11 mg and for females it is 15 mg. For age group 19-50 years the RDA for males is 8 mg and for females it is 18 mg. The RDAs for pregnant and lactating females are different as well for these two age ranges.

There is also a "tolerable upper intake level" (for me it is 45 mg) although I would not wish to test this as it would mean more phlebotomies / venesections to get rid of it after consuming it.

Breakfast cereals and bread are usually fortified with iron - it is hard to find any that are not. I have found only one type of bread locally that is not fortified and I eat only porridge oats now. Again, I don't want to have any more venesections that I have to so as to get rid of iron accumulated from eating fortified products.

It does take a bit of effort to work all of these things out but at least these days we have the internet so it is easier to find information.

Christine