Hello from Switzerland. Hi.
So my problem is that I seem to have something with the IRM storage. My seratin is very low,
last time I measured, it was 6.8 micrograms per liter, but my serum iron and transferring
are okay, hemoglobin is okay. All the other markers that the doctors checked, they were okay.
So I don't know if there's any trace through replenish just the ferritin levels without having
too much iron or yeah, what do I need to do? I would first see whether getting more iron in
your diet raises your transparent saturation or your iron saturation higher than 40%. If it does,
then I wouldn't push it but if it doesn't or if your transparent saturation is significantly
below 30%, then I think there's room to try to increase iron further because what should happen
in a normally functioning physiology is that as iron saturation goes up between 30 and 40%,
the excess goes into ferritin. And so if you're hanging out below 30%, then your serum iron might
look like it's in the normal range, but you're never telling ferritin to store some of it.
And if you push iron up in the diet and it goes beyond 40% significantly, then that shows you
that there is a problem actually storing ferritin. But if you're never getting up to 40% and you're
never in, you're always worried about pushing iron up higher because the serum iron is normal.
Then I think that you're not giving ferritin a chance to take up the extra.
With that said, if pushing iron up isn't the answer, I would try something like
milk thistle or sulforaphane, things that are designed to promote gene expression for
detoxification are antioxidant defense such as milk thistle and sulforaphane
are generally also going to raise ferritin because ferritin is part of the protective response.
Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.
That's perfect. Thank you for your question take care Martina.