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Iron enhances the production of the highly reactive and toxic hydroxyl radical, thus stimulating oxidative damage. Iron has been associated with a number of oxidative injury-dependent, age-related conditions and diseases. Indeed, oxidative injury is a major factor of (accelerated) ageing. This commentary reviews part of the existing literature on iron's deleterious effects, particularly in the context...
The recent finding of the beneficial effects of iron deprivation in the outcome of muscle necrosis in an animal model of genetic myopathy served as the basis of this commentary. Here, ''taking away'' iron by controlled dietary deprivation is proposed as a reasonable, feasible, cheap, and efficient clinical approach to many diverse diseases, all of which have a free radical component. Indeed, iron...
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