Ep 79 // Top-5 Vitamin & Mineral Vitamin Deficiencies (and how to fix them)
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How to Test Your Iron Levels
The best way to test your iron and see where your at is getting your serum ferritin concentration. That's the measure of the body's iron stores. It's currently the most efficient and cost effective test for diagnosing iron deficiency. But there are two different types of iron. There is heme iron, which is very well absorbed. And it's only found in animal foods with red meat containing particularly high amounts. Then there's also non heme iron,. Which is more common, but it's not absorbed as easily as heme irons. vegans vegetarians are more at risk for an iron deficiency.
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