{"id":227542,"date":"2025-12-20T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/should-we-treat-blood-donors-with-iron"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:35:02","slug":"should-we-treat-blood-donors-with-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/should-we-treat-blood-donors-with-iron","title":{"rendered":"Should we treat blood donors with iron?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-we-treat-blood-donors-with-iron2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven L. Spitalnik &amp; team report on a double-blind randomized trial for iron-deficient blood donors, finding treatment appears to affect brain function, brain iron, and myelin levels:<\/p>\n<p>The heatmap images highlight the trend for increased iron in most brain regions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<sup>1<\/sup>Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, and.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Cognitive Neuroscience Division in Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA.<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven L. Spitalnik &amp; team report on a double-blind randomized trial for iron-deficient blood donors, finding treatment appears to affect brain function, brain iron, and myelin levels: The heatmap images highlight the trend for increased iron in most brain regions. 1Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, and. 2Cognitive Neuroscience Division in Neurology, Columbia University College [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}