Re: FT3/RT3 ratio/ferritin and lactoferrin

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" Lactoferrin is able to enhance iron absorption and improve iron status when

iron stores are low "

http://www.medhelp.org/user_journals/show/14682/Lactoferrin

I've never tried lactoferrin, so can't say if it works, but it sure looks like

something worth finding out more about.

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> Does lactoferrin help to get ferritin up? My iron levels are high so I can't

supplement but my ferritin is only 20 not sure how to get the iron where it

belongs!

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> Kitty

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> To: RT3_T3

> Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 10:51:25 PM

> Subject: Re: FT3/RT3 ratio

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> I had read on a post a couple of weeks ago that, if you have mercury toxicity,

you can take lactoferrin to help bind the iron and get it into your cells

instead of chancing that candida will " eat " it... I may not have gotten that

right. I do not know that I have candida, but I am almost off the chart on a

mercury challenge test. I've ordered some lactoferrin to take with my iron.

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> Anyone have advice or information on this?

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> Janie H

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> From: SKY JONES <subhadradasi2000@ yahoo.com. au>

> To: RT3_T3yahoogroups (DOT) com

> Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 1:54:35 AM

> Subject: Re: FT3/RT3 ratio

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> I think it is meant to be that high taking t3 only. Ferritin is very low. I

read on the adrenals board that you wanted to taper of isocort. I would wait to

I get my ferrtin up before I did that.

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> Sky

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> From: janiehannah75 <janiehannah75@ yahoo.com>

> To: RT3_T3yahoogroups (DOT) com

> Sent: Thu, 8 April, 2010 12:24:49 PM

> Subject: FT3/RT3 ratio

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> I just got labs back last week. My ratio was 8 in Dec and is now 46! Can it be

too high?

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> FT3 3.7

> RT3 80

> TPOab 187 (have been as high as 350)

> TG ab <20

> Ferritin 31

> Sodium 139

> Potassium 4.2

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> What else would you want to see? I just requested the thyroid tests shown

above & CBC.

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> Thanks,

> Janie H

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