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Okay, everybody, we're back with a brand new Cabral concept. Today we're going to be talking about

why you may still have low iron levels, even if your ferretin

levels are normal. So if you're into the functional medicine-based world, you want to look more

into integrative health, and you're trying to figure out why you might have anemia-based symptoms,

those are the low energies, sometimes low or pallor it's called in the skin, so pale-based skin, no matter what your skin tone may be.

Low appetite, poor growth rate in children, low thyroid-based symptoms, so weak growth of your hair, skin, nails, dry skin, thinning hair on the scalp, bruising.

So there's a lot of different symptoms that go along with anemia. So typically what's run is sometimes it's just your total ion binding capacity, your T-IBC. That's standard blood work. That's just the basics. It's obviously it's not that great to just run that. But a lot of conventional medicine doctors, that's all they run. Now, when you get more into

functional medicine, integrative health, you want to run your ferretin levels, which is absolutely

something you should do. However, there are people that I've seen in my practice and overseen my

team where someone can have normal ferretin levels yet still have low iron. And that confuses a lot of practitioners,

doctors alike. Let's go through today why exactly that would happen. So you'll have the

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