Thank for this, Chris. I'm thinking about a few of my patients right now where I couldn't make sense of their iron panels and CBC. I'm going to review it a bit more and look back in their labs.
This is what has been happening in me for years. I think since I was young /puberty. Oxalate issues / heavy periods = always flirting with iron-deficiency anemia (and overall iron deficiency causing things like depression)
So everyone is telling me my iron is "low" with a ferritin of 70, but if my iron saturation is above range and I have high hemoglobin you are saying that is more likely iron overload?
As far as oxalate inhibition goes, a nice solution may be to replenish the gut microbe that breaks oxalates down... oxalobacter, though that’s a genus that’s lost from most modern peoples. So we’d have to know why it’s lost, what kills it, what feeds it, and how to replenish it.
Thank for this, Chris. I'm thinking about a few of my patients right now where I couldn't make sense of their iron panels and CBC. I'm going to review it a bit more and look back in their labs.
This is what has been happening in me for years. I think since I was young /puberty. Oxalate issues / heavy periods = always flirting with iron-deficiency anemia (and overall iron deficiency causing things like depression)
So everyone is telling me my iron is "low" with a ferritin of 70, but if my iron saturation is above range and I have high hemoglobin you are saying that is more likely iron overload?
Yes
As far as oxalate inhibition goes, a nice solution may be to replenish the gut microbe that breaks oxalates down... oxalobacter, though that’s a genus that’s lost from most modern peoples. So we’d have to know why it’s lost, what kills it, what feeds it, and how to replenish it.
Post a study showing that's possible, thanks.
What about high Unsat Iron Binding Capacity and low ferritin
Thanks for this!
Would taurine help?
Taurine can be part of the sulfur protocol under some circumstances.