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Five Gold Stocks to Buy as Ways to Profit from Rising Inflation

Five gold stocks to buy in pursuit of profits from increased inflation include some of the world’s biggest miners of the precious yellow metal. The five gold stocks to buy in hopes of profiting from inflation feature three companies headquartered in…

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Five gold stocks to buy in pursuit of profits from increased inflation include some of the world’s biggest miners of the precious yellow metal.

The five gold stocks to buy in hopes of profiting from inflation feature three companies headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, a fourth based in Colorado and a fifth that has its home in Vancouver, British Columbia. Those five gold stocks to buy have not zoomed as markets have been slow to shift to traditional inflation-protection equities, but rising prices with expectations such momentum will grow should only boost the appeal of such companies in the months ahead.

However, price inflation is on the ascent and the Biden Administration and the Democrat-led Congress are planning a $4.6 trillion spending spree on infrastructure and a host of new programs that will deepen the U.S. national debt well beyond its current $28.7 trillion, up 23.2% from $23.3 trillion just 18 months ago. Specifically, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives approved a $3.5 trillion budget bill with the promise of a vote by Sept. 27 on a bipartisan $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill previously passed in the U.S. Senate.

Five Gold Stocks to Buy Include Mining Companies and Funds Favored by Pension Fund Chairman

“I favor having a portion of a portfolio in gold or gold-related investments now,” said Bob Carlson, a pension fund chief who heads the Retirement Watch investment newsletter. “I believe the markets aren’t pricing in the likelihood inflation will remain above the modest levels experienced before 2020. Gold is one of the investments that will benefit once investors realize inflation will be sustained at a higher level than is currently priced into the markets.” 

Carlson expressed a preference for investing in physical gold, since higher risks are likely by taking on the additional volatility of owning shares of gold mining companies. In general, Carlson said he does not favor exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for investing in gold miners, since most of the funds invest in an index.

“The indexes include some companies you don’t want in your portfolio,” Carlson said.

Pension fund and Retirement Watch head Bob Carlson takes questions from Paul Dykewicz.

Gold Fund Composite Has Not Yet Signaled to Buy Precious-Metal Mining Stocks

“The trend over the past two weeks in gold mining stocks has been decidedly bullish,” said Jim Woods, editor of the Intelligence Report and Successful Investing newsletters, as well as the leader of the Bullseye Stock Trader advisory service. “Yet despite the recent move higher, we still have yet to see a significant break above key trendlines in our Gold Fund Composite.”

Woods tracks gold and precious metals miners with his indicator called the Gold Fund Composite, or GFC, which is a unique measure of mutual funds in the mining sector. When the GFC moves above key trend lines, it signals Woods that it is time to “buy” gold stocks. Right now, the GFC remains in “sell” status.

“Although rising inflation and negative real interest rates are good for gold and gold mining stocks, the sector has been volatile and largely stuck in a rather tight trading range,” Woods explained. “The best way to approach owning gold mining stocks is to catch them on an uptrend and ride their often-robust momentum higher. Conversely, being in mining stocks can be very volatile, so you need both a stop loss on any positions and/or a trend-following plan such as the one in my Successful Investing newsletter.”

Paul Dykewicz interviews stock picker Jim Woods, editor of Successful Investing.

Top Five Stocks to Buy Should Benefit from Inflationary Federal Spending and Policies

The precious yellow metal has struggled in the past year, with gold attempting to advance beyond $1,900 several times but falling back as buying interest eased. Maybe it could be time for gold to shine again, Mark Skousen wrote to his Home Run Trader subscribers on Sept. 7. 

Technical traders have noted that September tends to be a traditionally good time to buy gold. Even emerging markets guru Mark Mobius is recommending that investors put 10% of their portfolios in gold.

“Huge spending, multitrillion-dollar deficits and fears that the Federal Reserve will monetize the debt by printing more money are all bullish signals for gold,” commented Skousen, who also writes the Forecasts & Strategies investment newsletter, while leading the Five Star Trader, Fast Money Alert and TNT Trader advisory services. Skousen, named by SuperScholar.org as one of the Top 20 Most Influential Living Economists, clearly sees inflation climbing and has a track record of trying to buy into undervalued sectors and stocks before they start to soar.

Mark Skousen, a descendent of Ben Franklin, meets with Paul Dykewicz.

BoA Global Research Recommends Five Gold Stocks to Buy as Inflation Increases

Big gold entities that have rising free cash flow (FCF), defined as money available for a company to repay creditors or pay dividends and interest to investors after covering operating expenses, earned spots among BoA’s five gold stocks to buy. Inflationary pressures are starting to creep into cost structures for gold companies, just as they are for businesses in other industries, BoA wrote in a recent research note.  

Canada’s Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE: AEM), of Toronto, Ontario, operates gold mines in Canada, Finland and Mexico, while also pursuing exploration and development activities in the United States. The company gained a place among BoA’s five gold stocks to buy partly due to its expected improvement in second-half 2021 operating performance.

The investment firm gave AEM an $80 price objective, based on Agnico Eagle trading at 2.25 times BoA’s estimated net asset value for the stock. Historically, North American gold producers have traded between 1-3 times NAV, with 3 times NAV sometimes given to organically growth-oriented gold producers.

Risks of AEM falling short of attaining that price target include potential commodity price weakness, any inability to secure financing for expansion or development projects, unforeseen operating problems and political risk in the countries where the company operates. Possible reasons for Agnico Eagle to exceed the price objective include commodity price strength, better-than-forecast operating performance and favorable changes in the political environment in the regions where it operates, BoA wrote.

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Barrick Gold Earns a Berth Among the Five Gold Stocks to Buy

Canada-based Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD), of Toronto, Ontario, is a mining company that produces gold and copper with 16 operating sites in 13 countries. Keys for Barrick Gold include higher production output, coupled with reduced costs, equaling enhanced free cash flow in second-half 2021, according to BoA.

The investment firm assigned a “buy” recommendation and a $29.00 price objective to Barrick Gold, based partly on the stock trading at 1.50 times its estimated NAV of $19.35 per share. That estimate hinges on a 5% discount rate and 10-year average gold and copper price forecasts of $1,785 per ounce and $3.72 per pound, respectively.

BoA wrote that it could not give Barrick Gold a higher target price / NAV multiple due to the company’s stable, rather than rising, gold output. Potential downside risks to Barrick Gold achieving its BoA’s price target are potential commodity price weakness, any inability to secure financing for expansion projects, unforeseen operating problems, political or legal challenges in the regions where it operates, rising capital and operating costs and delays in the development of its growth projects.

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Franco-Nevada Finds Place with Five Gold Stocks to Buy

Franco-Nevada (NYSE: FNV), a Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based, gold-focused royalty and streaming company with a diversified portfolio of cash-flow producing assets, benefits from favorable product price tailwinds. The stock also can appreciate amid mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the gold arena, BoA wrote.

At a BofA Global virtual conference in mid-May 2021, FNV’s CEO noted the company’s Vale Royalty Debenture acquisition was a “tremendous opportunity” that gave Franco-Nevada exposure to world-class, long-life iron ore mines. Now, the M&A focus has turned back to gold and other precious metal opportunities, he added.

Franco-Nevada finances part of the capital spending on new mines for the companies it backs. BoA’s price objective for Franco-Nevada is US$163 per share and is based on the stock trading at 3.25 times the investment firm’s estimated NAV for the stock on a cash- and foreign exchange-adjusted basis. The investment firm gives a US$50.15 NAV estimate to Franco-Nevada, based on a 5% discount rate and 10-year average gold price forecast of $1,785 per ounce.

Based on a strong balance sheet and low-cost asset base, BoA gave Franco-Nevada a premium multiple. Franco-Nevada also benefits from its seasoned management team, BoA opined.

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Colorado-based Newmont Nudges Way onto List of Five Gold Stocks to Buy

Newmont Corporation (NYSE: NEM), based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States, is the world’s largest gold mining company. Created in 1921, Newmont owns gold mines in Nevada, Colorado, Ontario, Quebec, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Ghana, Argentina, Peru and Suriname.

The company’s performance in the second half of 2021 is expected to improve due to higher gold output and reduced costs, as well as enhanced prospects in its Ghana operation, BoA wrote in a recent research note. BoA’s price objective for Newmont is $80.00 per share, based on the stock trading at 1.75 times BoA’s estimated NAV of $46.00 per share. 

Possible reasons why Newmont may outperform BoA’s price target for it include stronger-than-forecast commodity prices, better-than-expected success at reducing costs, positive regulation and operating developments that outperform estimates. Potential hazards to Newmont meeting BoA’s price objective include the need to gain financing for expansion or development projects, unforeseen operating problems, political, legal or permitting challenges in areas where the company operates, rising capital and operating costs, and delays in developing growth projects. Nonetheless, BoA gave Newmont a buy recommendation.

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Wheaton Precious Metals Wins Spot Among Five Gold Stocks to Buy

Canada’s Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE: WPM), of Vancouver, British Columbia, boasts “strong free cash flow funding for its capital allocation priorities in the second half of 2021. BoA’s price objective for Wheaton is $55.00 per share and is based on the stock trading at 2.5x times the investment firm’s estimated net asset value (NAV) for the company.

BoA gave Wheaton Precious Metals a buy recommendation and a NAV of $22.00 per share, based on a 5% discount rate and a 10-year average silver and gold price forecast of $27 per ounce and $1,785 per ounce, respectively.

Possible risks to Wheaton Precious Metals attaining BoA’s price target for it include continued commodity price weakness, unforeseen operating problems at the mines on which its silver streams are based, financing challenges, political or legal challenges where it operates and project delays.

In a recent conference call with WPM management, its leaders said they see much new pressure on streaming opportunities. Even though Wheaton Precious Metals Corporation is the world’s largest silver streaming company, with fourteen silver purchase agreements, it has increased its share of gold production with new purchase agreements.

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Potential risks may hurt the company’s free cash flow and dividend payments, BoA wrote. Specific concerns include possible increases in inflation that boost the company’s costs and hamper its investment plans.

Delta Variant of COVID-19 Adds Risk for Five Gold Stocks to Buy

Rising cases and deaths from the highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 are leading to heightened warnings from public health experts. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is blaming the variant for worsening conditions, just months after requirements to wear masks indoors and adopt other restrictions were lifted in many urban areas. Many cities and states have reimposed precautions recently.

The variant’s danger seems to be spurring a growing number of people to become vaccinated from COVID-19. As of Sept. 7. 207,589,611 people, or 62.5% of the U.S. population, have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The fully vaccinated total 176,659,496 people, or 53.2%, of the U.S. population, according to the CDC.

COVID-19 cases worldwide, as of Sept. 7, totaled 221,873,412 and led to 4,585,547 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. U.S. COVID-19 cases thus far have reached 40,279,567 and caused 650,511 deaths. America has the dreaded distinction as the country with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths.

The five gold stocks to buy amid rising inflation have the potential to put a shine on the portfolios of investors who enter and exit these volatile equities at the right times.

Paul Dykewicz, www.pauldykewicz.com, is an accomplished, award-winning journalist who has written for Dow Jones, the Wall Street JournalInvestor’s Business DailyUSA Today, the Journal of Commerce, Seeking Alpha, GuruFocus and other publications and websites. Paul, who can be followed on Twitter @PaulDykewicz, is the editor of  StockInvestor.com and DividendInvestor.com,  a writer for both websites and a columnist. He further is editorial director of Eagle Financial Publications in Washington, D.C., where he edits monthly investment newsletters, time-sensitive trading alerts, free e-letters and other investment reports. Paul previously served as business editor of Baltimore’s Daily Record newspaper. Paul also is the author of an inspirational book, “Holy Smokes! Golden Guidance from Notre Dame’s Championship Chaplain,” with a foreword by former national championship-winning football coach Lou Holtz. The book is great as a gift and is endorsed by Joe Montana, Joe Theismann, Ara Parseghian, “Rocket” Ismail, Reggie Brooks, Dick Vitale and many othersCall 202-677-4457 for special pricing!

 

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Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?

Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?

Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024.

(Left) President Joe Biden delivers remarks on canceling student debt at Culver City Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, Calif., on Feb. 21, 2024. (Right) Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump stands on stage during a campaign event at Big League Dreams Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 27, 2024. (Mario Tama/Getty Images; David Becker/Getty Images)

With Nikki Haley’s withdrawal, there will be no more significantly contested primaries or caucuses—the earliest both parties’ races have been over since something like the current primary-dominated system was put in place in 1972.

The primary results have spotlighted some of both nominees’ weaknesses.

Donald Trump lost high-income, high-educated constituencies, including the entire metro area—aka the Swamp. Many but by no means all Haley votes there were cast by Biden Democrats. Mr. Trump can’t afford to lose too many of the others in target states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Majorities and large minorities of voters in overwhelmingly Latino counties in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley and some in Houston voted against Joe Biden, and even more against Senate nominee Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas).

Returns from Hispanic precincts in New Hampshire and Massachusetts show the same thing. Mr. Biden can’t afford to lose too many Latino votes in target states like Arizona and Georgia.

When Mr. Trump rode down that escalator in 2015, commentators assumed he’d repel Latinos. Instead, Latino voters nationally, and especially the closest eyewitnesses of Biden’s open-border policy, have been trending heavily Republican.

High-income liberal Democrats may sport lawn signs proclaiming, “In this house, we believe ... no human is illegal.” The logical consequence of that belief is an open border. But modest-income folks in border counties know that flows of illegal immigrants result in disorder, disease, and crime.

There is plenty of impatience with increased disorder in election returns below the presidential level. Consider Los Angeles County, America’s largest county, with nearly 10 million people, more people than 40 of the 50 states. It voted 71 percent for Mr. Biden in 2020.

Current returns show county District Attorney George Gascon winning only 21 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan primary. He’ll apparently face Republican Nathan Hochman, a critic of his liberal policies, in November.

Gascon, elected after the May 2020 death of counterfeit-passing suspect George Floyd in Minneapolis, is one of many county prosecutors supported by billionaire George Soros. His policies include not charging juveniles as adults, not seeking higher penalties for gang membership or use of firearms, and bringing fewer misdemeanor cases.

The predictable result has been increased car thefts, burglaries, and personal robberies. Some 120 assistant district attorneys have left the office, and there’s a backlog of 10,000 unprosecuted cases.

More than a dozen other Soros-backed and similarly liberal prosecutors have faced strong opposition or have left office.

St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner resigned last May amid lawsuits seeking her removal, Milwaukee’s John Chisholm retired in January, and Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby was defeated in July 2022 and convicted of perjury in September 2023. Last November, Loudoun County, Virginia, voters (62 percent Biden) ousted liberal Buta Biberaj, who declined to prosecute a transgender student for assault, and in June 2022 voters in San Francisco (85 percent Biden) recalled famed radical Chesa Boudin.

Similarly, this Tuesday, voters in San Francisco passed ballot measures strengthening police powers and requiring treatment of drug-addicted welfare recipients.

In retrospect, it appears the Floyd video, appearing after three months of COVID-19 confinement, sparked a frenzied, even crazed reaction, especially among the highly educated and articulate. One fatal incident was seen as proof that America’s “systemic racism” was worse than ever and that police forces should be defunded and perhaps abolished.

2020 was “the year America went crazy,” I wrote in January 2021, a year in which police funding was actually cut by Democrats in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver. A year in which young New York Times (NYT) staffers claimed they were endangered by the publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) opinion article advocating calling in military forces if necessary to stop rioting, as had been done in Detroit in 1967 and Los Angeles in 1992. A craven NYT publisher even fired the editorial page editor for running the article.

Evidence of visible and tangible discontent with increasing violence and its consequences—barren and locked shelves in Manhattan chain drugstores, skyrocketing carjackings in Washington, D.C.—is as unmistakable in polls and election results as it is in daily life in large metropolitan areas. Maybe 2024 will turn out to be the year even liberal America stopped acting crazy.

Chaos and disorder work against incumbents, as they did in 1968 when Democrats saw their party’s popular vote fall from 61 percent to 43 percent.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or ZeroHedge.

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Veterans Affairs Kept COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate In Place Without Evidence

Veterans Affairs Kept COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate In Place Without Evidence

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reviewed no data when deciding in 2023 to keep its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place.

Doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington in a file image. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

VA Secretary Denis McDonough said on May 1, 2023, that the end of many other federal mandates “will not impact current policies at the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

He said the mandate was remaining for VA health care personnel “to ensure the safety of veterans and our colleagues.”

Mr. McDonough did not cite any studies or other data. A VA spokesperson declined to provide any data that was reviewed when deciding not to rescind the mandate. The Epoch Times submitted a Freedom of Information Act for “all documents outlining which data was relied upon when establishing the mandate when deciding to keep the mandate in place.”

The agency searched for such data and did not find any.

The VA does not even attempt to justify its policies with science, because it can’t,” Leslie Manookian, president and founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund, told The Epoch Times.

“The VA just trusts that the process and cost of challenging its unfounded policies is so onerous, most people are dissuaded from even trying,” she added.

The VA’s mandate remains in place to this day.

The VA’s website claims that vaccines “help protect you from getting severe illness” and “offer good protection against most COVID-19 variants,” pointing in part to observational data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that estimate the vaccines provide poor protection against symptomatic infection and transient shielding against hospitalization.

There have also been increasing concerns among outside scientists about confirmed side effects like heart inflammation—the VA hid a safety signal it detected for the inflammation—and possible side effects such as tinnitus, which shift the benefit-risk calculus.

President Joe Biden imposed a slate of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in 2021. The VA was the first federal agency to implement a mandate.

President Biden rescinded the mandates in May 2023, citing a drop in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. His administration maintains the choice to require vaccines was the right one and saved lives.

“Our administration’s vaccination requirements helped ensure the safety of workers in critical workforces including those in the healthcare and education sectors, protecting themselves and the populations they serve, and strengthening their ability to provide services without disruptions to operations,” the White House said.

Some experts said requiring vaccination meant many younger people were forced to get a vaccine despite the risks potentially outweighing the benefits, leaving fewer doses for older adults.

By mandating the vaccines to younger people and those with natural immunity from having had COVID, older people in the U.S. and other countries did not have access to them, and many people might have died because of that,” Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine on leave from Harvard Medical School, told The Epoch Times previously.

The VA was one of just a handful of agencies to keep its mandate in place following the removal of many federal mandates.

“At this time, the vaccine requirement will remain in effect for VA health care personnel, including VA psychologists, pharmacists, social workers, nursing assistants, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, peer specialists, medical support assistants, engineers, housekeepers, and other clinical, administrative, and infrastructure support employees,” Mr. McDonough wrote to VA employees at the time.

This also includes VA volunteers and contractors. Effectively, this means that any Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employee, volunteer, or contractor who works in VHA facilities, visits VHA facilities, or provides direct care to those we serve will still be subject to the vaccine requirement at this time,” he said. “We continue to monitor and discuss this requirement, and we will provide more information about the vaccination requirements for VA health care employees soon. As always, we will process requests for vaccination exceptions in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.”

The version of the shots cleared in the fall of 2022, and available through the fall of 2023, did not have any clinical trial data supporting them.

A new version was approved in the fall of 2023 because there were indications that the shots not only offered temporary protection but also that the level of protection was lower than what was observed during earlier stages of the pandemic.

Ms. Manookian, whose group has challenged several of the federal mandates, said that the mandate “illustrates the dangers of the administrative state and how these federal agencies have become a law unto themselves.”

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Low Iron Levels In Blood Could Trigger Long COVID: Study

Low Iron Levels In Blood Could Trigger Long COVID: Study

Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

People with inadequate iron levels in their blood due to a COVID-19 infection could be at greater risk of long COVID.

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A new study indicates that problems with iron levels in the bloodstream likely trigger chronic inflammation and other conditions associated with the post-COVID phenomenon. The findings, published on March 1 in Nature Immunology, could offer new ways to treat or prevent the condition.

Long COVID Patients Have Low Iron Levels

Researchers at the University of Cambridge pinpointed low iron as a potential link to long-COVID symptoms thanks to a study they initiated shortly after the start of the pandemic. They recruited people who tested positive for the virus to provide blood samples for analysis over a year, which allowed the researchers to look for post-infection changes in the blood. The researchers looked at 214 samples and found that 45 percent of patients reported symptoms of long COVID that lasted between three and 10 months.

In analyzing the blood samples, the research team noticed that people experiencing long COVID had low iron levels, contributing to anemia and low red blood cell production, just two weeks after they were diagnosed with COVID-19. This was true for patients regardless of age, sex, or the initial severity of their infection.

According to one of the study co-authors, the removal of iron from the bloodstream is a natural process and defense mechanism of the body.

But it can jeopardize a person’s recovery.

When the body has an infection, it responds by removing iron from the bloodstream. This protects us from potentially lethal bacteria that capture the iron in the bloodstream and grow rapidly. It’s an evolutionary response that redistributes iron in the body, and the blood plasma becomes an iron desert,” University of Oxford professor Hal Drakesmith said in a press release. “However, if this goes on for a long time, there is less iron for red blood cells, so oxygen is transported less efficiently affecting metabolism and energy production, and for white blood cells, which need iron to work properly. The protective mechanism ends up becoming a problem.”

The research team believes that consistently low iron levels could explain why individuals with long COVID continue to experience fatigue and difficulty exercising. As such, the researchers suggested iron supplementation to help regulate and prevent the often debilitating symptoms associated with long COVID.

It isn’t necessarily the case that individuals don’t have enough iron in their body, it’s just that it’s trapped in the wrong place,” Aimee Hanson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge who worked on the study, said in the press release. “What we need is a way to remobilize the iron and pull it back into the bloodstream, where it becomes more useful to the red blood cells.”

The research team pointed out that iron supplementation isn’t always straightforward. Achieving the right level of iron varies from person to person. Too much iron can cause stomach issues, ranging from constipation, nausea, and abdominal pain to gastritis and gastric lesions.

1 in 5 Still Affected by Long COVID

COVID-19 has affected nearly 40 percent of Americans, with one in five of those still suffering from symptoms of long COVID, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Long COVID is marked by health issues that continue at least four weeks after an individual was initially diagnosed with COVID-19. Symptoms can last for days, weeks, months, or years and may include fatigue, cough or chest pain, headache, brain fog, depression or anxiety, digestive issues, and joint or muscle pain.

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