A Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of a Novel Medical Food for Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia

This medical food takes advantage of the stability and high level of solubility of the human H-ferritin protein to be absorbed by the body as an iron source; indeed H-ferritin is enriched in breast milk as the mechanism for transferring iron from mother to infants. Once the ferritin has been absorbed from the gut, uptake into each organ is regulated by a specific extracellular receptor pathway to deliver iron in the body's preferred bioavailable form.