Jane and Betty, thanks for answering. David's anemia has also been checked and checked. His late brother had PD and also this anemia. David is not yet on sinemet, but probably will be in the not so distant future. I will just have to try steaks and see if that helps. When he has to go on sinemet, we will have to deal with it somehow. this PD is a family illness.( I mean everyone's family not just ours, which surely appears to be genetic, his mother came from Russia and I doubt that anyone in her family is left.) Probably eating a steak won't cause us any harm, we just stopped eating them years ago and now don't like them. We will just learn to eat them and see what happens. The iron supplements have been useless. If anyone else hs noted a connection, please let us know. Thanks Nita