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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 can be very very

devastating an excess of iron can 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 in

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 a lack of iron really affects

your overall complexion on your face now

as far as your nails go

you may find that your nails are brittle

and if you’re chronically deficient in

iron you’re going to get that little

spooning of the nail it’s going to look

a little bit like the nail is scooped

out so brittle nails and a spoon shaped

nail all right what about the hair well

the hair is going to lose its texture

it’s going to become

brittle kind of tough and you’ll see

pattern hair loss now

in men that is

loss of hair on the top of the head in

females pattern hair loss is basically

thinning of the hair

all over and so a lack of iron is one

big cause of that and females are more

deficient in iron than men because they

have their menstrual periods every month

and they lose a lot of blood and because

iron is part of hemoglobin and

hemoglobin is part of blood when you

lose blood you lose iron iron is needed

for oxygen and so if you’re not able to

have enough oxygen

to your hair

your nails or your skin

all sorts of things can happen so how do

you become deficient in iron well one is

you’re not taking enough iron in to the

diet now the problem with iron in diet

is that there’s two forms of iron you

have heme iron and non-heme iron and

this relates to the efficiency of how

iron is

absorbed in your body when you consume

iron from things like spinach or beans

the absorption is much much less

like spinach has an absorption rate of

like 1.5

beans are like 2.2

but then when we get to

like beef liver the absorption is like

15 then when we get to red meat we’re

talking about absorption rate of 21. so

if we compare the non-heme source

roughly at a two and a heme source with

red meat at a 21 you can see there’s a

vast

difference so consuming animal meat is

going to give you a lot more

iron and i highly recommend you get your

iron from food versus a supplement

because the elemental iron that they

give you in supplements is just

it’s just it’s crap it’s low quality

it’s not the type of iron that nature is

providing you now if you absolutely

cannot

eat red meat for some reason then i

would recommend getting it from maybe a

supplement that’s a

dehydrated

beef liver

or even a spleen

extract from an animal all right the

next thing i want to talk about

is your stomach if your stomach does not

have enough hydrochloric acid okay this

is very common you’re not going to

absorb iron because the acid in the

stomach

makes the iron soluble to be absorbed so

if someone doesn’t have enough acid or

they’re taking an acids because they

have heartburn or whatever or gerd

that could be the reason why they’re not

absorbing iron and the interesting thing

about not having enough hydrochloric

acid to absorb iron is you’re probably

not going to have enough hydrochloric

acid to digest red meat either and i

will get to a solution for that but you

just need to know that a lack of stomach

acid can create a media now another

common cause is that

your colon

or your small intestine is inflamed okay

any type of inflammatory

gut issue will block the absorption of

iron as in ibs

crohn’s diverticulitis

irritable bowel syndrome etc etc so

inflammation can definitely be a problem

and so the number one cause of

inflammation in the gut

is there certain foods that you’re

eating number one grains omega-6 fatty

acids in grains

or like things like soy oil or corn oil

or canola oil or cottonseed oil which is

in pretty much all the foods especially

if you go out to dinner and you eat

something fried you’re going to have a

lot of omega-6 fatty acids and that’s

going to create inflammation in your gut

and some people are sensitive to nuts

and seeds and

even chocolate

and sometimes even coffee beans and

those things can create inflammation as

well so if a person is eating a lot of

peanut butter for example and they feel

a lot of

bloating or stomach pain that could be

an indication that you have inflammation

in your gut all right the other thing

that can block iron is something called

phytic acid which is in grains beans

legumes so if you consume a lot of

cereal for example

that could be the reason why you’re not

absorbing iron because of all this

phytic acid if you germinate

nuts like let’s say you soak them

overnight and then you dehydrate them

that will get rid of a lot of the phytic

acid or if you sprout the seed you get

rid of the phytic acid also

too much bran the fiber in grains

can block iron as well as too much

copper if you’re taking a lot of copper

that can block iron and also if you have

lead in your body that can block iron

all right and the next one is blood loss

so menstruation is a common cause of

blood loss

if you have an ulcer that could be a

cause or if there’s any other type of

bleeding inside your gut

that could be a cause of loss of iron

like let’s say you had

cancer for example in your colon you’re

bleeding and you’re wondering why your

stool is dark red well that could be the

reason

if you had gastric bypass okay

that could be the reason why you’re not

absorbing iron and the last reason is

alcohol okay if you drink alcohol on a

regular basis that could be the reason

why you are deficient in iron all right

so here are things you need to do number

one start consuming red meat if you can

okay

now number two

this is going to handle the ph problem

with the stomach you need to start

taking something called betaine

hydrochloride

that’s going to acidify the stomach and

that’s going to allow you to digest the

red meat okay and it’s going to help you

absorb iron so more animal meats

and

betaine hydrochloride to acidify the

stomach and i would also recommend if

you’re going to take retained

hydrochloride to take

uh five to six maybe even seven before a

meal because i found you have to take a

little bit more of it to really have it

work it will take a period of weeks

maybe even months to fully correct all

right next thing is to stop eating the

foods

that are blocking iron

foods that have phytic acid like the

grains the nuts the seeds

those can be a problem

and stop eating things that are creating

inflammation that’s blocking your gut

and that would be

the grains primarily and things that are

high in omega 6 fatty acids and i think

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