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Yes there is evidence, but it's conflicting and controversial.

I think you have the iron connection backwards. Being overloaded with iron causes lower absorption of manganese from food and iron displaces manganese in cells.

It is the genetic disruption of hepcidin function that matters, not having eaten meat.

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Lol I did read your article and understood most everything but still messed up some connections at the time of writing this, indeed..

Really complex to grasp at one glance lol

Even with the hepcidin, the inflammatory states in the body play quite a big role.

Interesting how really big amounts of meats (in otherwise imbalanced diets) still promote more inflammatory states, and so more hepcidin is produced - iron availability decreased, iron locked into macrophages etc.

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