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    1. The-Florentine on

      Don’t forget higher incidences of cystic fibrosis! 😀

    3. Important_Farmer924 on

      >it’s not caused by magic

      Eh, I wouldn’t have thought so like.

    5. mightymunster1 on

      I’m Irish live in Ireland and I’ve never heard of this

    6. amadan_an_iarthair on

      Not gonna lie. When I saw “Irish Gene,” I thought it would be the big aul head.

    7. Mammoth-Tip4185 on

      Medical scientist here. Hereditary haemochromatosis is a pretty common disease in Ireland especially in the West. But it’s not as debilitating as it made out in the video. Even if you possess the gene mutation for HH, an even smaller fraction of people express the mutation. In women, HH doesn’t tend to cause problems until menopause due to menstrual bleeding reducing iron naturally. The simple therapy is literally to drain blood from a patient whenever they experience symptoms and their total iron binding capacity is elevated. Not as much of curse other than having to watch your diet.

    8. likeahike60 on

      The celtic curse. Is this like the curse of Conor McGregor !

    9. PurpleRainbowPuppies on

      Yep, loads of my family have hemochromatosis or are carriers of the gene.

    11. KangarooNo7224 on

      I am the total opposite – borderline anaemia and take iron tablets daily…

    14. emleigh2277 on

      My son has the opposite. He can’t store iron and can only use it when it’s ingested. As a result, he can’t build fat cells and is skinny AF. Every muscle shows, like Bruce Lee. All of us females would have loved that, but no, he got it.

    17. ceimaneasa on

      How unfortunate that our favourite beer is full of iron too

    18. proletariel on

      We Irish are more likely to have autoimmune illnesses than the already elevated European risk.

      Wonderful paper entitled: “*Marx on the Reciprocal Interconnections between the Soil and the Human Body: Ireland and Its Colonialised Metabolic Rifts*” which discusses how our ancestors’ suffering of the artificial, enforced famine has destroyed the health of not only the soil but the people of the soil. Anyone wants the PDF just ask!

      Ireland and India, among others, should be studied intensively, in relation to our colonial famines and their effects on our bodies to this day. Our disease burden is higher and should be fought preventatively.

    20. DuskLab on

      Pretty sure, if I recall, it was a function of the famine. People who survived the malnourishment were more predisposed to get more nutrients, like iron, out of the food that was available to them. There wasn’t a lot of steak dinners going around, so needed to get the iron from elsewhere.

    21. imgirafarigmi on

      My reaction was r/shitamericansa… oh no wait this is interesting.

    24. Mikki-chan on

      Whenever I give blood they ask if I eat a lot of red meat because of my high iron levels (I don’t eat that much) curious if I might actually have this now and blood donations and periods are keeping it at bay?

    25. forged_steel on

      I have the curse but all it takes is a bit of bloodletting to keep it at bay.

    26. Due_Regret7219 on

      My brother has this, he grand, he just gives blood regularly to keep it in check

    27. billys_cloneasaurus on

      This is quite common in my family.

      We were told not to get tested for it as it can.make getting life insurance for the purpose of a mortgage difficult.

    28. Natural-Hunter-3 on

      Don’t forget we also have dense beast tissue. A wonderful post on here recently educated us on the fact nearly half of Irish women have dense breast tissue but are never informed on what that means despite the fact it does mean cancer is harder to detect from scans.

      My aul fella has hemachromotosis so I’ve been familiar with that for a while; men in my family have to get tested from age 30 onwards every couple of years, the women are much less likely however it is still possible so our GPs keep an eye.

      Irish health issues should be talked about more openly, it would save lives.

    29. flopping-deuces on

      I know someone from Brittany who has this condition. They have to have blood removed every month or every couple of months,I forget the exact frequency, because of it.

    30. Far-Kale90 on

      Can I just say, before you go to the doctor looking to see if you have this, get yourself your life insurance and mortgage protection sorted out first.

    32. annoyed_freelancer on

      My brother has this, it runs in our family! We live in the Wesht.

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