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)
Sometimes drugs being prescribed can affect iron absorption to cause anemia even on a perfectly balanced nutrient intake. Also the tendency of self medication to relive pain, at the slightest discomfort. Mixing traditional and modern treatments a d so on without testing for drug resistance and allergic reactions.
Please note I am allergic to antiallergics. What do you have to say to that. Suggest build immunity instead.
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.
None of these scenarios apply to my anemia. My hemoglobin has never been above 11.7. It moves between 10.5-11.5. Everything else is within range. My red blood count tends to be in the upper end of range. My MCV and MCH and MCHC are always low. Thalassemia was ruled out but U can’t help but think that this is a major factor in the progressively deteriorating health of my hair skin and nails.
How to increase hemoglobin without consuming more iron?
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)
Sometimes drugs being prescribed can affect iron absorption to cause anemia even on a perfectly balanced nutrient intake. Also the tendency of self medication to relive pain, at the slightest discomfort. Mixing traditional and modern treatments a d so on without testing for drug resistance and allergic reactions.
Please note I am allergic to antiallergics. What do you have to say to that. Suggest build immunity instead.
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.
None of these scenarios apply to my anemia. My hemoglobin has never been above 11.7. It moves between 10.5-11.5. Everything else is within range. My red blood count tends to be in the upper end of range. My MCV and MCH and MCHC are always low. Thalassemia was ruled out but U can’t help but think that this is a major factor in the progressively deteriorating health of my hair skin and nails.
How to increase hemoglobin without consuming more iron?
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.