What is best iron supplement to take for anemia
THE BEST Supplements for LOW IRON & IRON DEFICIENCY HAIR LOSS | Mega Food Blood Builder
hi guys welcome back to my channel how
are you guys doing you good you good
okay so today I'm going to be sharing
with you guys what are in my opinion the
best supplements for treating iron
deficiency anemia as well as all of them
nasty hair loss that comes with that so
guys make sure you stay tuned till the
end of the video I'm also going to be
sharing how long it took me
before I started seeing results on these
supplements and also how long it was
before my iron levels actually rose
really quick before we get into this
video I do want to make a quick
disclaimer I am NOT a doctor yes I am a
psychologist but I am NOT your personal
doctor so if you feel like you are
experiencing anemic symptoms or you're
experiencing low energy please do talk
to your GP about it go and get a blood
test so that you can confirm what your
status is before you start taking any
iron supplements iron overdose is a real
thing and I want to make sure that you
guys stay healthy and whole so please
make sure that you do your due diligence
and you go and speak to your GP before
you start taking any of these
supplements okay guys now let's get into
this video some of you may already know
that I've had my own personal struggles
with low iron over the past few years
and when I was looking at the numbers I
was actually strangely encouraged to
find out that up to one third of the
world's population actually struggles
with low iron or iron deficiency anemia
however I can't say that I wasn't gutted
to find out that it's more common or
more prevalent in women who are of
childbearing age and even more so
amongst women who belong to ethnic
minorities like black women or Hispanic
women focus of women of color who are
childbearing age that are then on meet
restrictive diet of which I was all of
those things I was three for three
but honestly seeing how much great
feedback I've been getting from you guys
on these videos about iron lets me know
that I'm in great company so shout out
to you guys because honestly you guys
want the real MVP it's just so good to
know that I'm not the only one
struggling with these things and that
some of the stuff that I'm sharing is
actually helping you guys through your
own journey and your own struggles with
low iron and iron deficiency hair loss
now just in case anyone watching this
video isn't 100% sure about what anemia
is the easiest way that I can explain
this is
plain and simple we need energy to
survive oxygen gives us energy and what
helps us carry the oxygen around our
bodies our red blood cells when we don't
have enough red blood cells we don't
have enough oxygen now what we need in
order to have enough red blood cells to
give us the oxygen that we need for the
energy to survive is iron hence iron
supplements so to sum it up in one
simple flow chart iron gives us the red
blood cells that we need to carry the
oxygen around our bodies in order to
have the energy to survive you guys with
me okay now the thing is even though low
energy is probably the poster child for
anemia one of the other symptoms that
we've noticed in tracking wonderful
research and obviously from personal
experience as well is the fact that hair
loss is actually one of the other
telltale signs of low iron and anemia
now the generally accepted healthy range
for iron levels or ferritin levels are
between twelve nanograms per milliliter
of blood and 150 nanograms per
milliliter of blood for women of course
it's much higher for men but that's not
what we're talking about today now let's
just clarify it because I'm also aware
that within that range there are further
broken down ranges because it is quite a
big gap in between 12 and 150 so let's
just check that okay yeah so yeah we can
see here like ferritin guide to
interpretation so low is considered 15
nanograms per milliliter of blood so
that would be any 15 or less basically
would you would be considered anemic and
anything in between 16 nanograms to 14
nanograms per milliliter would be
considered borderline so this was the
category where I fell into I wasn't
clinically anemic but I was borderline
and then normal would be classified as
in between 41 and 150 nanograms per
milliliter here it says 41 41 and 400
but I think that also can
during males so also be capped at 150 so
a normal range for a woman would be in
between 41 and 150 milligrams committing
to her blood so I actually did a video a
couple months ago about the real reason
why your hair isn't growing and in that
video actually explained how even women
whose ferritin levels were in the
healthy range so above 41 was still
losing their hair studies actually
showed that women who had ferritin
levels that were lower than 70 nanograms
from elisa was still experiencing iron
deficiency hair loss although iron hair
loss so if you haven't had the chance to
see that video yet I would highly
recommend that you go and look at it
I'll put the link up here so you can go
and watch that and then come back to
this video or you can just watch it
after this video now with further levels
that were 23 nanograms per milliliter
safe to say I was comfortably borderline
anemic but the thing is because doctors
don't typically recognize anything under
15 or anything under 12 as a threat to
your health they didn't actually give me
any sort of indication of how I could
increase my eye level it wasn't until I
started learning a bit more about
nutrition and trying out different
supplements that I ended up coming to
find the mega food blood builder which
has been by far the best iron building
supplement that I have tried hands-down
now the first thing that I will say I
really appreciate about these
supplements is the fact that with every
single capsule so with one dosage you
get 26 milligrams of iron now just to
put that into context for you guys up
until finding these supplements I had
not been able to find any iron
supplements that were commercially
available in the United Kingdom that had
more than 18 milligrams per serving now
the reason why this is so important is
the fact that your body loses about two
milligrams of iron every single day and
so through your diet whether that's by
food or by supplements or a combination
of both you need to be able to replenish
those two milligrams of iron per day now
if you guys have seen my other video
about how you can boost your iron levels
I'll pop that up here I talked about how
ingestion does not necessarily equal
absorption so even if you are ingesting
26 milli
per day you're not actually absorbing 26
milligrams of iron per day and so to get
a more accurate understanding of how
much your body would be absorbing of the
iron that you are actually ingesting
it's about five to ten percent so let's
say on average seven percent and so if
I'm ingesting let's say twenty five
milligrams of iron per day then I'm only
actually absorbing about one point seven
five of those milligrams per day which
doesn't even meet the two milligram
requirement anyway and that's for
somebody who has already normal eye
levels topless of somebody who has high
levels that are depleted and so it makes
sense to me that if I wanted to give
myself the best chance of meeting those
requirements for replenishing the iron
that I have lost that I would ingest
more iron of course within a reason and
so having access to supplements like the
blood Builder that helped me get that
last bit that I need to be able to push
myself over that line it is so helpful
and the second thing that I will say
that makes these supplements so
effective is the fact that they have
vitamin C folate and vitamin b12 and I
would classify all of these additional
nutrients and vitamins as absorption
boosters and by that I mean they just
help your body to actually absorb the
iron that is being ingested again if you
haven't seen the video that I did on how
to increase your EIN levels I talked
about the difference between heme iron
and non heme iron key mine you get from
animal protein and non heme iron you get
from plant sources and it's the kind of
iron that you would typically find in
supplements now vitamin C is one of
those vitamins that helps your body to
convert non heme iron into a form that
is easily absorbed and stored by your
body where it might otherwise have
struggled to do that and again vitamin
b12 and folate help your body to absorb
the iron that you are ingesting the
other thing that I will say about this
is the fact that it also has beetroot
now beetroot is a very very rich natural
source of iron I did a video on iron
boosting smoothies and it was one of the
key ingredients for one of them it's
extremely iron rich and so it's just
that extra boost of iron but from a
natural source as well okay before I
jump into this next point I'm just gonna
go ahead and put a TMI
disclaimer right here if you're
squeamish and you don't like talking
about bodily functions and I would say
just skip the next 60 seconds or so of
this video and I'll see you after this
point so one of the big things that I
really did appreciate about these is the
fact that at the time when I was
struggling with new AI and I was also
struggling with irritable bowel syndrome
and it was not easy trying to find iron
supplements it just wouldn't constipate
me honestly for me it was not a
trade-off that I was prepared to make I
didn't think I was asking too much to
find some supplements that boosted my
iron without making the IBS symptoms I
was experiencing was just really quickly
before I forget if you live in the UK
and you've been having a hard time
finding good iron supplements the only
place that I've been able to find these
is on Amazon so I've actually popped the
link in the description box below I put
one there for these ones which are the
main ones and I've also put another one
there for the minis in case you have an
issue with big tablets and also whilst
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business
now coming off the back of my previous
point these supplements are everything
friendly and by everything I mean
everything so these supplements are
non-gmo verified they are also many my
glasses for this hold on see Jesus heal
my eyesight Lord ah much better
yeah glyphosate residue free pesticide
and herbicide free also certified
gluten-free certified vegan there's a
Kay here we don't even know what that
means
and it's also dairy-free and these are
also soy free honestly I wouldn't be
surprised if these are pet friendly as
well these don't quote me on that
so yeah safe to say that these
supplements cater to every kind of
dietary lifestyle ever now the final
thing that I will say about these
supplements is the fact that they do
come in mini form so there are two types
there are the normal ones that come in
the normal size so they're not
necessarily so big but they're also not
that small but I can see how it might be
uncomfortable for people who aren't used
to swallowing big tablets so they come
in a
Mini's version where the tablet sizes
are a bit smaller so again they cater to
all of your dietary needs
now it's convenient as it is to have the
minis the dosage of the beetroot in the
minis is actually more so I don't know
why it seems like you almost have a
trade-off between having to have the
bigger supplements and lower beetroot
content or the smaller supplements and
the higher BTU content and you also have
to take more of the pills if you're
taking the mini so instead of taking one
capsule you end up having to take 2
capsules which I kind of feel like
defeats the point of having minis anyway
but honestly it's not so much of an
issue for me I have the big ones as you
can see they're not actually that big to
be fair they're probably smaller than
others that I've tried and then the only
other thing that I would say about these
supplements is the fact that they are a
little bit pricier than your standard
supplements out there but again I feel
like that's to be expected because they
do have a higher content now as valid as
all of these points are I don't really
know that would consider them complete
eternals for me they might be for other
people but for me they didn't really
matter especially because of how quickly
I began to see results from using these
supplements and even though it has been
a few years now since I've managed to
get my levels under control I can
remember that within about two weeks I
started to feel better like
symptomatically I wasn't struggling as
much with low energy if at all I also
had more focus my mood improved I wasn't
feeling so depressed most of the time I
was happier I was laughing I was joking
I was more bubbly and then within the
next two to three months I started to
see more tangible results in terms of
how much hair fall I was having my hair
was falling out less and the hair that
actually was then growing from my scalp
was coming out a little thicker than it
had been when my iron levels were really
low now I would say it took me about six
months between when I started taking
these supplements to when I could see my
friends and levels going up in my blood
test results now I will caveat this and
say that I wasn't taking these
supplements as often as I should have
been so you're supposed to take them
every day just because I wasn't used to
having to take supplements and I didn't
typically take vitamins
while to get into the habit of doing it
consistently so that could have affected
how quickly I saw results and also the
fact that I didn't actually take another
follow-up blood test until about six
months after just because I didn't
really remember to go and do another
follow-up blood test so that's
everything from me today guys I really
hope that this video has helped you
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that have what wonders for you and
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I'd love to know what's worked for you
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scrolling through the comments who's
going to see something that might
actually help them in their journey to
finding what works best for building
their I levels I know most of you will
probably be spending your weekend
indoors so I hope you guys have a
restful wonderful weekend and I look
forward to seeing you next week bye
