Episode Highlights With Morley Robbins
- What might be going on if you are told you have low iron or low ferritin
- Why what’s going on in the blood isn’t always indicative of whats going on in the tissue and what to know when looking at blood tests
- The three things to understand when measuring iron: hemoglobin (70% of body’s iron), ferritin (storage protein inside cells- 10% of body’s iron), serum iron (less than a tenth of a percent which actually means copper isn’t doing its job)
- What hepcidin is (peptide)
- Katherine Philpott MD PhD paper on how ferritin is storing excess iron in the body
- Why the amount of iron you need is lower than you think..
- The important part of this equation that is almost never tested by doctors and that can be shut down by Vitamin D
- Why low ferritin is not an indication of iron deficiency and actually shows low copper and affects hepcidin
- Dietary iron vs. recycling iron and why copper is important
- What to know about Vitamin D and its relationship to retinol
- The thyroid connection and why it is just a symptom of what’s going on in the body
- Why low thyroid function can just be a symptom of low retinol
- The thyroid doesn't run the body - it responds to the body
- What you don’t know about aging that is aging you much more rapidly
- Why copper, magnesium, and retinol are the big players in the real story of aging
- How hair testing shows us some things that blood tests don’t
- 12 minerals and 8 metals that show up in hair tests (electrolytes, oxidation patterns, metals, etc)
- Things we can take that mess up the way copper is used in the body (birth control, antibiotics, artificial vitamin C)
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