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From 'It’s the iron, stupid' <a href="http://howirecovered.com/its-the-iron-stupid/">http://howirecovered.com/its-the-iron-stupid/</a></p>
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<strong >The average doctor will only look at your ferritin levels</strong>. All this measures is the iron you’ve got in storage. But we should be concerned about active iron metabolism. If your ferritin is high, it means that your liver, spleen, bone marrow and probably brain have already filled in with iron. You’ve waited too long to do something about it and you’re already ill.
The vast majority of all practitioners also recommends high dose of vitamin D which is actually a hormone so should be called hormone D. High-dose vitamin D (and sunshine) <a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/our-blogs/cmasterjohn/is-vitamin-d-safe-still-depends-on-vitamins-a-and-k-testimonials-and-a-human-study/" target="blank" >depletes vitamin A</a>, which in turn<a href="http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/vitamins/vitamin-A" target="blank" > causes iron anemia</a>.
So you’re thinking I should just take a lot of vitamin D and that will solve my iron problem. Here’s the catch, taking high-dose vitamin D causes iron anemia by lowering ceruloplasmin which reduces bioavailable copper and iron. That’s going to make me sicker. How does this happen? The vitamin D depletes vitamin A which is a precursor to ceruloplasmin.
If you’re like me, you’re now thinking “Why not take vitamin D with vitamin A to get the benefits of D without lowering ceruloplasmin?” well according to Morley the answer is that vitamin D is a powerful hormone and causes other problems: increases calcium, lowering potassium slowing the thyroid. Decreases magnesium agitating the adrenal glands. In a nutshell, it’s a can of worms.
Back to iron. Each ferritin molecule can hold as many as 4,500 iron atoms resulting in tremendous oxidative stress in your body.
Ferritin is mostly contained or stored iron. It is the free iron that is not contained or unbound that is dangerous to us.
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