Can eating steak give me too much iron?

The short answer

Dr. Martin says no, and he puts no exceptions on it. He says too much iron comes from eating too many carbohydrates, and he names bran, pasta, rice and cereal as the source rather than the steak.

Dr. Martin on iron and steak:

The reason you had too much iron is not from steak, it's because you eat too many carbohydrates. 100%. No exceptions. Eat all the steak in the world. You're not going to get hemochromatosis from eating steak. It's the opposite. You're getting it from eating bran and pasta and rice and cereals. That's why we see so much of it today. Yeah, it's not steak. It's sugar.

Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 593

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This is his opinion, spoken on the podcast, about a condition that gets diagnosed and managed with blood tests. Nothing on this page is a diagnosis and nothing here replaces the person treating you.

It is the same answer he gives everywhere else

Sugar is his standing suspect. He gives the identical answer on diabetes, using Hong Kong, and on the studies themselves, using the motorcycle gang.

This page is one part of Dr. Martin's guide to red meat, which collects every answer he has given on it.