‼️don't take iron 3x a day?! ‼️ In one of many humbling realizations on the complexity of the human body, we have learned from our previous theory, where reasonably one would think if someone is iron deficient that giving more iron should improve the levels, that in fact exposing our stomachs to certain threshold of iron within 24 hours, actually increases Hepcidin (named after the Greekgod Hephaestus) which decreases "the gates" to allow our interview absorb. This is because iron is a metal and in general, our bodies know we do not want to absorb *too* much heavy metal--neurologic and organ deposition. Thus, counterintuitively, though now somewhat intuitively, the "sweet spot" seems to be every other day, with a debate on maybe once a day possibly yielding more iron, but not as well tolerated as an every other day dose (constipation, abdominal pain). If you are a particularly large nerd, the reason we see, elevated platelets/thrombocytosis is because there is actually a "common" progenitor cell, which differentiates into EITHER a red blood cell, or a platelet. When are low, it actually shifts the production toward making more platelets, and when theory is because one of the most common reasons for iron deficiency is menstrual bleeding, or, bleeding of any kind, and which platelets, which are responsible for "ceasing" a bleed, a.k.a. clot blood, are important to up regulate in hopes of preventing further iron loss in the form of blood loss. And that's on the divinity of science, Greek or not. 🤯 #irondeficiencyanemia #anemia #iron #irondeficiency #heme #hematology #nerdalert