How Long Does It Take For Iron Pills To Work?

Much of the answer to this question comes down to why your ferritin or iron is low in the first place. If you had acute blood loss and are no longer losing blood then your iron levels should come up quickly generally averaging about 5-10 points on your ferritin levels each month.

Remember your ferritin is a storage hub for iron so it will often go up slower than your serum iron and iron saturation.

Once your body has filled up your transferrin pool (transferrin is the protein that buses iron around in your blood to its place of need in the cells), then iron stores in ferritin will start building.

There are a few factors that can hinder iron optimization:

Heavy menstrual cycles
Running
Low thyroid function
Gut bacteria

Finally, it also matters what type of iron you are consuming. Iron taken up via a Hydrolyzed rice protein complex is the most efficient way I have seen in 12 years of practice and 1000s of iron doses.

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00:00 Why are iron levels low?
00:52 Ferritin vs. Serum Iron levels
01:45 High iron vs low ferritin
03:16 Patient story
05:20 Consistent iron intake
06:34 Factors that hinder iron stores
08:06 Runners and footstrike hemolysis
10:07 Low thyroid function
11:17 Health and diversity of gut flora
13:28 Types of iron that cause digestive distress
15:11 Hydrolized rice protein complex



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