Patient was educated on myoglobin as follows:

  1. Iron is an essential nutrient of human diet.
  2. About 70 percent of iron in human body is present in hemoglobin and myoglobin.
  3. Myoglobin is an iron containing protein that is present in cardiac and skeletal muscles.
  4. Myoglobin carries oxygen attached to it and serves as a storage unit of oxygen in the muscle.
  5. When muscles are exercised, myoglobin delivers oxygen to the muscles to maintain the activity of the muscles for longer durations.