Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast.

I'm your host, Ivor Cummins.

Hey guys, metabolic health again today and a very special subject that's close to my heart.

So many times in the past I've highlighted the importance or the dangers of high iron,

serum ferretin in a blood test and it indicates metabolic disease metabolic

syndrome insulin resistance and all those terrible things but today we're going to talk to a lady

Lisa Emerson who had a profound issue that affected her for many years relating to iron. So low iron is also a huge problem and

massively underdiagnosed. So great to see Alisa and talk about this key issue. I think affecting

women more than men usually. Yes, it's great to be here, Ivor. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's one of those issues that is, as you said,

horribly underdiagnosed and is extremely common. Possibly three billion people are affected,

and it knows no socioeconomic or nationality bounds. It happens in every country there is.

Yeah, for sure.

And again, as I mentioned there in the intro,

most of my work has been on high iron and iron loading.

But interestingly, hemachromatosis,

which is known as the Irish disease,

because we have four times as much of it.

I think we have around 2% of people.

And that's high iron loading. but the interesting thing is iron was so

important in our diet that we now have people who are hyper absorbers who just get way too much iron

but the importance in the diet is clear so you can easily also end up too low, which is a major problem. And my own wife

is affected, but I've got to hold back on that now. And maybe we could tell your story first as to

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