Dr. Andy Galpin

Like, what's the worst that's going to happen?

Not much.

Very limited downside.

Strong likelihood you're low.

Even if you're not low, very little harm here.

So there's most of the things we've talked about, you don't need any test at all to go do.

Some things I'm going to say, hey, like, we want to see actual markers on this before we start tinkering with that.

Like minerals in particular.

A lot of them can become low iron and reds like reds are really common thing to pay attention to.

So this is a concern you have with relative energy deficiency.

So if you're not only combining being female as well as a lot of caloric expenditure and calories are moderate to low.

Then we have all kinds of problems we have to pay attention to there.

So there's just a whole bunch of other factors that go into that.

Iron gets really complicated really fast.

So maybe we can come back to that one on a different day.

Okay.

So there is a thing that we will talk about for many decades now called heel strike hemolysis.

This is exactly what it sounds like.

If you run a lot and your feet smash the ground, when your blood is going past the bottom of your foot, just normal blood moving through your body, and that blood is between your foot and the ground and then you smash it, you will smash your red blood cells.

We see this in our combat athletes, right?