Less iron, more pain…eventually
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If you’re iron deficient as a tiny baby, you’ve got a higher risk of chronic pain as an adult! No one knows quite how that works yet. A new study of the complex potential mechanisms had no obvious or simple results, but did show that perinatal iron deficiency “shapes glutamatergic signaling” and “changes the pattern of sensory input to the dorsal horn.”
File under biology is destiny. Also yet another reason why chronic pain probably isn’t a mind thing.