How Iron Affects Your Hair, Skin and Nails
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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If you have issues with your hair, skin, and nails—you may need more iron. Find out more.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a very important relationship between iron and your hair, your nails, and your |
| 0:27.3 | skin. |
| 0:28.3 | Now, the very interesting thing about this trace mineral is that we have no internal mechanism |
| 0:34.6 | to regulate the elimination of iron. |
| 0:38.6 | So just as a deficiency of iron can be very, very devastating and excessive iron |
| 0:43.8 | can be very, very devastating, but our body does have certain mechanisms depriving microbes |
| 0:49.4 | of pathogens because almost all pathogens need iron to survive. |
| 0:56.3 | And so there is this huge competition of iron between our pathogens and our own self, |
| 1:02.0 | but that's going to be for a separate video. |
| 1:03.8 | Today, we're going to talk about the effects of iron on our hair, nails, and skin. |
| 1:08.8 | And so many people are deficient in iron. |
| 1:10.9 | I would say worldwide, it's about a billion people. |
| 1:14.3 | Yet, when you're diagnosed with an iron deficiency, you're told to take elemental iron. |
| 1:21.6 | Iron is not the best form of iron for absorption. |
| 1:26.2 | And so many times when you take it, you're waiting for these symptoms to clear up, but it never |
| 1:31.3 | does. |
| 1:32.3 | And then you ask your doctor, well, what's the root cause? |
| 1:34.9 | Why am I iron deficient? |
| 1:37.5 | And they might say, well, you're just anemic. |
| 1:39.4 | All right. |
| 1:40.4 | Then why do I have anemia in the first place? |
| 1:43.3 | So I'm going to cover that. |
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