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In the present study, we explored the effect of three consecutive days of endurance training (twice daily) on the hepcidin-25 (hepcidin) level. The effect of iron supplementation during this period was also determined. Fourteen male endurance athletes were enrolled and randomly assigned to either an iron-treated condition (Fe condition, n = 7) or a placebo condition (Control condition; CON, n = 7). They engaged in two 75-min sessions of treadmill running at 75% of maximal oxygen uptake on three consecutive days (days 1\u20133). The Fe condition took 12 mg of iron twice daily (24 mg\/day), and the CON condition did not. On day 1, both conditions exhibited significant increases in serum hepcidin and plasma interleukin-6 levels after exercise (p &lt; 0.05). In the CON condition, the hepcidin level did not change significantly throughout the training period. However, in the Fe condition, the serum hepcidin level on day 4 was significantly higher than that of the CON condition (p &lt; 0.05). In conclusion, the hepcidin level was significantly elevated following three consecutive days of endurance training when moderate doses of iron were taken.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu9080820","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,1]],"date-time":"2017-08-01T03:30:06Z","timestamp":1501558206000},"page":"820","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Iron Supplementation during Three Consecutive Days of Endurance Training Augmented Hepcidin Levels"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Aya","family":"Ishibashi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sports Science, Japan Institute of Sports Science, Nishigaoka, Kitaku, Tokyo 115-0056, Japan"},{"name":"Graduate School of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Naho","family":"Maeda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Akiko","family":"Kamei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sports Science, Japan Institute of Sports Science, Nishigaoka, Kitaku, Tokyo 115-0056, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9911-3229","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kazushige","family":"Goto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"594S","DOI":"10.1093\/ajcn\/72.2.594S","article-title":"Iron status and exercise","volume":"72","author":"Beard","year":"2000","journal-title":"Am. 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