Re: Low iron problem continued

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Did you know they had a doctor at NEEDS??

Might be good a answering some questions? hormones?

Or?

Thorstensen wrote:

> Thank you Ken for your " iron pages " . I am going there now. So helpful.

> And thank you Cheryl for the info and , yes - I am half Sicilian so

> that is a possibility (but does this low iron disease kind of creep up on a

> person? Could it be that I never had children for a good reason???) I'll do

> the math. And, and thank you. I heard the same thing from Jerome at

> NEEDS today.

>

> (BTW, he is an MD, not practicing - is 74, semi-retired so answers questions

> at NEEDS). He said that when he heard of my problem he called Wellsprings.

> The owner there (sorry, forgot name) told him there is a majow study

> underway, almost complete that studies the effect of ImmunPro (the

> lactoferrin in it) on raising serum iron levels. Couldn't give me any other

> details except that it looked promising - and that I had a decision to make.

> Either continue w the ImmunPro or the iron, not both.

>

> So, I got my CBC and since last year the MCV and MHV values are now normal.

> Good! But the Ferritin? Was 4, now is 7. " Normal " is anything from 10 -

> 190something. So, it is alittle higher.

>

> Seems like I need to discuss w my MD on Monday what the possible causes of

> low iron count would be - and not have it passed off as heavy periods. More

> like some infection, etc. And then I need to start to educate him, or more

> precisely, figure out where he is in his understanding of ImmunPro, low heat

> whey and its impact on intracellular glutathione levels in general.

>

> Will keep all updated. At least for the archives, a thread to follow.

>

> Thanks for the added input. I'll be back after I read your pages, Ken...

>

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[Guest guest]

This, of course, was meant to be a backchannel post. Anyone notice I've been

doing a lot of this of late? Must be my allergy-head. : (

wrote:

> Did you know they had a doctor at NEEDS??

>

> Might be good a answering some questions? hormones?

>

> Or?

>