Iron Supplement

“and then other types of blood work, what if somebody is massively deficient in zinc, or vitamin D, or even iron, I mean, or omega-3s. And so being able to get the right testing done, I think to know, hey, what are the tools that are going to make the biggest difference? For instance,”

“If somebody goes and gets a blood panel, most often they get zero nutrients checked. Oh, yeah, yeah. And if they do, B12, sodium,. It's iron, B12, and sodium. I mean, that's maybe what they're getting tested. Yeah. Yeah. What about magnesium? Right. What about zinc? Yeah, to your point. Silica. Folate”

“critical nutrients for, uh, related to cognitive function and risk of dementia. Um, the ones that we have the best evidence for, uh, vitamin D, iron, omega-3 fatty acids, uh, the B vitamins involved and the B vitamins involved in methylation. So particularly B12 and folate also potentially B6 and riboflavin, although that might depend a little bit more on, on the individual.”

“So the best advice, if you have access to it, is to test your levels. Test your vitamin D levels. Test your hemoglobin and iron levels. Test your omega-3 levels. Test your homocysteine levels, which is a marker of B vitamin status, which we know is a risk factor for cognitive decline dementia as well.”

“food. Every now and then, I don't eat a lot of red meat. So I'll take iron, but not on a consistent basis. And I'm hoping the new one is, this is an area of controversy, NAD. This is the, you know, it's a precursor for a main enzyme that's highly involved in metabolism.”

“I was needed to get on an iron supplement. Me, right? Isn't that interesting? Curious. Was not taking enough omega-3s. You, you recently were like, Hey, probably need up that.”

“You got to be careful with rocks, right? Magnesium though is pretty inert. It's okay. You start tinkering with iron. You got to really be paying attention. You start tinkering with other rocks. You got to really understand that magnesium seems to be like pretty okay. Like the worst thing we're going to deal with is GI distress. And as I talked about, like most people are okay now,”

“yes, most people, the big stuff, we're going to put you in a better spot. And that's what to pay attention to. So the minerals that are sort of not as risky would be the magnesium. Now, iron, you said iron, something that probably more focused on with male, sorry, females that are menstruating, right?”

“there. So there's just a whole bunch of other factors that go into that. Iron gets really complicated really fast. So maybe we can come back to that one on a different day. But don't you also like, as an athlete, you kind of like you're losing your, you know, tear down, like red blood cells are being torn down.”

“tear down, like red blood cells are being torn down. And so you're probably losing even more iron. No. Okay. So there is a, uh, a thing that we will talk about for, for many decades now called heel strike hemolysis.”

“right? So you have physical things hitting your body. You will physically smash those red blood cells. You will smash that iron. And so, yeah, it's not just menstruation. It's not just breaking down of tissue. You will actually physically smash your own red blood cells. So it is a huge concern for not just females, but young, old, like it's a whole thing. Iron is,”

“and just be like, oh, I'll just take some more. Not a good idea at all. So. So you definitely want to measure your iron, your ferritin, like what are the main things? A bunch ones. Yeah. I would say that there's probably at least seven markers that we would pay attention to before we're really truly understanding what's happening with your overall iron status.”

“particularly in high volume training, endurance athletes. Yeah. We use vitamin C very judiciously not to get us back there, but you start actually looking at iron, what it does when you co-ingest iron with vitamin C, if you're going to go after iron, you probably should bring vitamin C along.”