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There's a very important relationship between iron and your hair, your nails, and your skin.

Now, the very interesting thing about this trace mineral, in that we have no internal mechanism to regulate the elimination of iron. So just as a deficiency of iron could be

very, very devastating, and excess of iron could be very, very devastating. But our body does

have certain mechanisms depriving microbes of pathogens because almost all pathogens need iron to survive. And so there is this huge

competition of iron between our pathogens and our own cells. But that's going to be for a separate

video. Today we're going to talk about the effects of iron on our hair, nails, and skin. And so

many people are deficient in iron.

I would say worldwide, it's about a billion people.

Yet when you're diagnosed with an iron deficiency,

you're told to take elemental iron.

Elemental iron is not the best form of iron for absorption.

And so many times when you take it, you're waiting for these

symptoms to clear up, but it never does. And then you ask your doctor, well, what's the root cause?

Why am I iron deficient? And they might say, well, you're just anemic. All right, then why do I

have anemia in the first place? So I'm going to cover that, but let's first

talk about how iron affects your hair, nails, and skin. All right, as far as the skin goes,

when you're deficient iron, it has huge consequences. Number one, it creates a type of skin

called sallow skin, which is a pale, slightly yellowish, kind of a dull complexion.

You're basically going to lose that bright complexion. And now you'll have this uneven skin tone

that you'll see little blemishes. You'll see sometimes little red dots. But overall,

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