Dr. Andy Galpin

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?

So you have physical things hitting your body.

You will physically smash those red blood cells.

You will smash that iron.

And so, yeah, it's not just menstruation.

It's not just breaking down of tissue.

You will actually physically smash your own red blood cells.

So it is a huge concern for not just females, but young, old.

It's a whole thing.

Iron is also insanely related to sleep quality.

So you will see numbers go all over the board when you are having splinted contractions that night because you're having mild sleep apnea or other disturbances.

So the numbers that you're paying attention to there, they really throw people for a loop when their blood work.

So you got to be really careful and pay attention to that.

And as I said, that's not an innocuous supplement.

You can't just smash it and just be like, oh, I'll just take some more.

Not a good idea at all.

A bunch of ones.

Yeah, I would say that there's probably...

at least seven markers that we would pay attention to before we're really, truly understanding what's happening with your overall iron status, everything from hematocrit to hemoglobin, um, ferritin, of course.