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Iron deficiency often leads to hair loss.
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It gives red blood cells their colour (which is why
iron deficiency anemia is
often characterized by paleness of the skin).
Children
often fall short of their recommended dosage and need
iron deficiency supplements for kids.
If
iron -
deficiency anaemia is diagnosed by a doctor, then
iron supplements for infants may be prescribed, although borderline anaemia can
often be corrected when baby's diet is adjusted to include more
iron rich foods.
If it is purely an
iron deficiency, I will
often first recommend increasing
iron - rich foods like organic / grass - fed liver, grass - fed red meats, and dark leafy greens.
Most
often associated with anemia,
iron deficiency can cause problems long before it reaches that state.
A
deficiency in
iron can quite
often result in depression, and
iron deficiency is associated with fatigue and mood changes.
Beware however, functional / sub-clinical
iron deficiency can still (and
often does) exist because the reference ranges considered normal by blood labs are extremely wide — so you will be quite deficient if you fall below the lab's «normals».
Children make the conversion very poorly and infants not at all — they must obtain their precious stores of vitamin A from animal fats — yet the low - fat diet is
often recommended for children.2 Strenuous physical exercise, excessive consumption of alcohol, excessive consumption of
iron (especially from «fortified» white flour and breakfast cereal), use of a number of popular drugs, excessive consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids, zinc
deficiency and even cold weather can hinder the conversion of carotenes to vitamin A3, as does the low - fat diet.
Pregnancy can
often be a trigger —
iron deficiency and immune shift, as well as potentially the babies» thyroid cells that circulate in the body, may be a trigger.
Women are more prone to mineral
deficiencies like osteoporosis (calcium
deficiency), anemia (
iron deficiency), low thyroid (
often due to iodine
deficiency), and chronic fatigue (
often due to vitamin D or magnesium
deficiency).
As a result, low levels can cause
iron deficiency anemia.2 Iron - deficiency anemia often leads to fatigue and exhaustion, but you might also experie
iron deficiency anemia.2
Iron - deficiency anemia often leads to fatigue and exhaustion, but you might also experie
Iron -
deficiency anemia
often leads to fatigue and exhaustion, but you might also experience:
«Here are some of the common symptoms and disorders caused by low stomach acid: Bloating, belching, and flatulence immediately after meals, heartburn (
often thought to be caused by too much stomach acid), Indigestion, diarrhea, or constipation, undigested food in stools, acne, rectal itching, chronic candida, hair loss in women, multiple food allergies,
iron deficiency, weak, peeling, or cracked fingernails, chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, dry skin, various autoimmune diseases.»
Probably the only weakness in this book is the repeated warning that those in the later stages of adrenal
deficiency often have paradoxical reactions to supplements but Dr Lam does not seem to know this is usually because of undiagnosed
iron anemia (test results need to be on the higher side).
Since
iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia, you
often see the condition referred to as simply «anemia» or shortened to IDA.
I know Pica in humans are
often due to
iron deficiency.