All right, shocker. I had to split the iron episode into two episodes because we hit

like over 45 minutes and I'm like, I still have a lot to cover. So the first episode ended up

being all about the basics and the foundations of iron, how we store it in the body, what it does,

how we recycle it, copper's roll in iron. And then in this episode, we're going to dig more into

anemia's and then iron overload. And then I have a ton of Q&A questions that I'm going to answer

for you guys. So let's go right into it. If you didn't listen to Part 1, this probably won't make sense.

So make sure you listen to Part 1 first.

Now that we've covered copper in its role and how the body regulates iron and how much we need

in a day, talked about the RDA in that episode, let's get into the different types of anemia's,

and then I'll go to overload.

But I'm breaking

down to three categories. There's even some I'm not covering in here, believe it or not.

So we're not going to go into like an insane amount of detail. But I like to break it down into

macrosetic, microesthetic and normacetic anemia. I think when people hear anemia, they think it's only iron deficiency

anemia, but it's not, but it doesn't mean it doesn't impact red blood cells, hemoglobin,

and iron status. So this is why I think iron is very nuanced and I think that we can't live in

the extremes. So macracidic anemia, what the heck is that? It basically causes

really large red blood cells and they can't carry enough oxygen throughout the body. So the symptoms

are similar to other kinds of anemia. And I think this is what makes anemia confusing because a lot

of symptoms are the same, but it's based on a different root cause. So we can identify a macracynic

anemia, the large red blood cell, if we have an MCV, I think it's like mean corpuscle volume

of 100. So if you get a CBC complete blood count panel, then you'll get an MCV measurement. If it's over 100, that's a sign of

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