I can see magnesium citrate, and the side effects from that drug all integrated in the time in which they're meaningful.

Outside of red blood cells, good ferrous iron the only oxygen carrying form is oxidized uncontrollably to form the bad ferric and ugly ferryl forms of hemoglobin. When released into a person s circulatory system, hemoglobin in these higher oxidation states eventually self destructs, damaging molecules in surrounding tissue.