I AM IRON MAN
Has he lost his mind
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?

Is he live or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care?

He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
When he traveled time
For the future of mankind

Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfurl

Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

(Bridge)

Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again

all metal ions that may cycle btw two oxidation states through a
one-electron transfer, thus generating a free radical are very
dangerous in any kind of free form and thus has to be bound when the
dangerous side effect is not needed or unwanted.

On the other hand, in immune system, the dangerous side of iron is
highly needed and expressed btw. many mechanisms in iron dependent
systems like myeloperoxidase and eosinophil peroxidase system. The
first enzyme produced by monocytes and polymorphonuclear granulocytes
and the other class mainly by eosinophils, all classes of white blood
cells involved in cytotoxic killing of foreign cells.

And even worse, the first step of breakdown of cysteine (and
homocysteine) towards either free sulfur (as sulfate) or as
hypotaurine/taurine/hypohomotaurine/hypotaurine, the cystein
dioxygenase, is an enzyme dependent on iron showing a Michaelis-Menten
alike enzyme activation response towards iron.

Chai SC, Jerkins AA, Banik JJ, Shalev I, Pinkham JL, Uden PC, Maroney
MJ., J Biol Chem. 2005 Mar 18;280(11):9865-9. Epub 2004 Dec 28.,
Heterologous expression, purification, and characterization of
recombinant rat cysteine dioxygenase.

This means that too little iron might end up in both decreased
degradation of homocysteine and cysteine, lack of endogenous taurine
synthesis, but also, if combined with lack of pyridoxal 5-phosphate in
the vicinity of far too high iron levels, the production of neurotoxic
and cytotoxic cysteic acid and homocysteic acid since all pathways
from cysteine sulfinic acid toward either further degradation to
pyruvate and SO4 (which are P5P dependent) and the two alternative
pathways toward taurine are blocked (both also P5P dependent, as is
also all other amino acid decarboxylases (which form GABA from
glutamate), beta-alanine from aspartate etc. etc.

So, both far too much iron are unhealthy, but too little are very
unhealthy as well and may even be as effectful in making you immune
deficient as an HIV infected person.

The key is not to deprive your body of iron which has been insinuated
in many articles the last year from ironjustice, but to keep iron to
where it belongs and have enough of it, and neither far too much as in
people having iron overload diseases, or too little.