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The Importance of Blood Checks for Youth Athletes
I'd like to see is doing a bit more iron profiling and by iron profiling, talking about ferritin, hemoglobin, am transferring saturation. I do think we've got a problem with vitamin D vol in as much as we need to measure more than just 25 OHT. And there is a suggestion that even something like B12, whilst within an adequate range for a general population, there seems to be an optimal range for hemoglobin formation in athletes. We need to measure these, but also come up with our own reference values rather than just going on clinical ranges. So I think there's a lot more that can be done in that space. Yeah, it's something I don