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Beyond the blood test: what your iron results aren't telling you with Laura Taylor
Ferritin looks “fine” on your blood test, yet you still feel wiped out, breathless, flat, and foggy. Or you take iron faithfully and nothing moves. That gap between symptoms and pathology is where iron gets genuinely confusing, so we brought in naturopath Laura Taylor, who specialises in gut health and iron deficiency, to explain what’s actually happening beneath the numbers.
We walk through iron absorption in plain language, then zoom in on inflammation and hepcidin, the hormone that can shut the ferroportin gate and trap iron where you cannot use it. From there, we unpack the difference…
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