3452: Root Cause of Low Ferritin, Help for Mastocytosis, Folliculitis & Eczema, Practicing Mindfulness, Lactose & Acne (HouseCall)

The Cabral Concept

Dr. Stephen Cabral

Wellness, Drcabral, Antiaging, Fitness, Stephencabral, Weightloss, Motivation, Alternative Health, Wellbeing, Mindset, Cleanse, Cabral, Exercise, Detox, Health, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Welcome back to our weekend Cabral HouseCall shows!

This is where we answer our community's wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging questions to help people get back on track!

Check out today's questions:

Elizabeth: Hi Dr Cabral! Thank you for your informative podcast. I searched in past episodes & didn't find the answer to my question so I thought I'd write in. I'm a 49 year old woman & had bloodwork done for the first time a little over a year ago. Everything looked good except my ferritin was low at 9. For the next 12 months I took iron supplements 2-3 times a week & started eating more iron rich foods including red meat & beef liver pills. When ferritin was tested again it was only up to an 11. My PCP is now recommending I get an iron infusion. Are these safe? What might be the root cause of my low ferritin? I'm still menstruating but have never been heavy. I eat a balanced diet including meat & always have. I exercise 4-5x/ week. Could this just be genetic? Should I be concerned? Thx, Elizabeth

Carrieann: Hi Dr Cabral! I love listening to your podcasts. I have a rare disease called Mastocytosis. Do you have any recommendations for natural supplements that might help. I am currently taking vitamin C and Quercitin and it they do help. I would love to improve my gut but I am a little confused on how to go about doing that when I need to keep histamines low and all the things like probiotics, kimchi, bone broth are all high histamine. Thank you for your help!!

Darren: Good day Dr. Cabral. I recently got diagnosed with folliculitis and eczema by a dermatologist who stated it was spurred by my skin reacting to my many sauna sessions and regular dry brushing. Unfortunate, cause I enjoy both. I abhored the idea, but the doctor recommended doxycycline antibiotics and mupirocin topical cream which did stem the constant itching, redness, flaking. I've no noticeable side effects from medication. What do you suggest I use post medication to ensure healthy gut and it reoccurring? I was thinking maybe the clean gut probiotic or daily detox. Keep up good work.

Darren: Good day, Dr Cabral. It's me again. I asked this months ago, but never got a response. Maybe question got lost or your team pulled it given it can be perceived as controversial. I appreciate your Mindset & Motivational Monday shows and all the teachings from Dispenza etc about not stressing but focusing and living in the moment. However, how does one adhere to those practices if they were living in say a conflict zone where things are beyond their control like Congo, Palestine, Sudan? Where food isn't guaranteed but constant attacks are? I get if you choose not to answer on air. Keep up good work.

Sheena: Hi Dr. C! Hope you are well. After doing a Food Sensitivity test, my results showed I'm allergic to cows milk dairy. Which, I already knew for years because every time I eat dairy, like clockwork, 2-3 days later, I'd break out really bad. And even though it only takes 2-3 days to happens, it takes me at least 4+ weeks to start to clear up. My question is, would it help if I were to take a Lactaid or a dairy intolerance pill? It seems that most of those pills help with gas and bloating, which I don't get. I just get really bad acne. But was hoping that I could take this before eating a meal that I'm not 100% sure about to prevent break outs. If not Lactaid, is there a pill you could recommend that could help? Thank you so much for answering my question and for being my health GURU! :)

Thank you for tuning into today's Cabral HouseCall and be sure to check back tomorrow where we answer more of our community’s questions!

- - -

Show Notes and Resources:

StephenCabral.com/3452

- - -

Get a FREE Copy of Dr. Cabral's Book:

The Rain Barrel Effect

- - -

Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered:

CabralSupportGroup.com

- - -

Dr. Cabral’s Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests:

> Complete Minerals & Metals Test

(Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity)

- - -

> Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test

(Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels)

- - -

> Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test

(Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels)

- - -

> Complete Food Sensitivity Test

(Find out your hidden food sensitivities)

- - -

> Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test

(Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels)

- - -

Get Your Question Answered On An Upcoming HouseCall:

StephenCabral.com/askcabral

- - -

Would You Take 30 Seconds To Rate & Review The Cabral Concept?

The best way to help me spread our mission of true natural health is to pass on the good word, and I read and appreciate every review!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Before we dive into today's show, I wanted to share with you. This is the very last week of Equal Life's summer sale.
0:06.7	The semi-annual sale, it only happens once every six months, so I don't wait to miss it.
0:10.9	You can save up to 30% right now site-wide. And we never do that. That means you can save on every single at-home lab test.
0:18.0	You can save on all of our healing protocols like the functional medicine detox,
0:22.1	CBO protocol, mold detox, heavy metal detox, and so much more. Plus, all of your favorites right now
0:27.8	are on sale, whether it's the daily nutritional support, daily activated multi, daily omega-3s,
0:32.7	probiotics, vitamin D3, magnesium, you name it. It's there. It is all on sale site wide.
0:39.2	Head on over to stephencabral.com slash shop for all the details.
0:43.6	Now, enjoy the show.
0:45.2	Welcome to the Cabral concept, where board certified doctor of naturopathy, Dr. Stephen
0:50.1	Cabral shares with you exactly how you can reverse aging, take back your health, and live a life full of energy and passion, with new 20-minute episodes every single day to keep you healthy and engaged.
1:02.7	Now, here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.
1:07.2	Okay, everybody back with a brand new Cabral host call.
1:10.6	Always excited to get into our weekend Cabral Concept shows.
1:14.4	This week, like every Saturday and Sunday show, we'll be answering about five questions from the community.
1:21.9	Again, no prep work is done for these.
1:24.4	I love to be able to answer them as they come in.
1:28.9	As always, I have to give my team also a big shoutout, phenomenal job getting these questions together. If you want to
1:34.4	submit your own, please do feel free to do so. You can do that at stephencabral.com slash ask
1:39.8	cabral. And it'll be read in about 60 weeks or so on a weekend edition of the show.
1:46.3	For all past episodes, to see if your question was answered, feel free to head on over to
1:50.7	stephencabral.com slash podcasts.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 9 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Stephen Cabral, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Stephen Cabral and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.