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did you realize that over a billion people on this  planet are deficient in iron i was actually pretty  

surprised to hear that so today we’re going to  talk about iron deficiency anemia so here are  

the symptoms fatigue pale like you’re losing color  brittle nails you get those little grooves in your  

nails hair loss thinning of the hair twitching  feeling irritation pica you crave dirt or clay  

number nine you have the urge to consume ice or  chew on ice and number ten restless leg syndrome  

now there’s actually more but these are the main  ones now the question is what is causing this well  

excessive menstruation okay excessive bleeding  and by the way if you’re female and your cycles  

are very heavy that means you have estrogen  dominance i’m going to put a link down below  

for you to watch later but there’s some things you  can do to reverse that problem number two ulcers  

it could be an ulcer in the stomach or even the  small intestine that you don’t even know about  

number three hemorrhoids i have a very good video  on this um you want to support your liver there’s  

a really good remedy i also have a remedy on this  as well i’m going to put the link down below it’s  

involving taking zinc number four colon cancer  could potentially cause anemia number five dietary  

you’re a vegan and you’re only consuming beans  and grains and plants those food have what’s  

called non-heme iron and you only absorb a  very very small amount it’s like 1.4 percent  

of the iron so you’d have to consume a tremendous  amount of plants to get your iron the problem is  

a lot of the plants and grains have certain  things like oxalates or phytates that block iron  

the best source of bioavailable iron is  called heme iron is from seafood red meat  

poultry eggs and even insects have a high level  of heme iron just in case that you may get that  

urge you know late at night if you want a snack  and i’m being very sarcastic all right number six  

certain antibiotics can deplete you of iron number  seven low stomach acid a lot of people have this  

they don’t even know it as you age you lose the  stomach acid and now you cannot absorb certain  

minerals especially iron and even calcium number  eight malabsorption if you have some type of  

problem in your colon or you’re missing  a gallbladder or you had surgery as in  

gastric bypass that can leave you with a hard  time absorbing iron and number nine and this  

is fascinating i’m going to create a separate  video just on this but inflammation can deplete  

your iron how well both good bacteria and  bad bacteria as in pathogens need iron to  

grow and what happens within your immune system  your body as well as your good bacteria tend to  

lock up or bind iron during an infection during  a fever and during inflammation so what happens  

as a survival mechanism your body prevents the  pathogens from getting a hold of the free iron  

and that is one strategy to help limit their  growth now what’s supposed to happen is after  

the infection the inflammation goes away but  what happens if you have chronic inflammation  

because you have some type of autoimmune  condition rheumatoid arthritis lupus or  

whatever that is going to end up depriving your  whole body of a lot of trace minerals iron being  

a very specific one and so the more chronic  the inflammation the more anemic you could be  

now you might say well i’ll just go ahead and  solve this problem by taking more iron right  

well you’re going to actually feed the pathogens  and then they can actually grow and you’ll create  

an imbalance so how do you solve that what  you do is you get rid of the actual source  

of the inflammation there’s a couple things that  i would recommend i’m gonna put the videos down  

below but number one fasting periodic prolonged  fasting is essential and a lot of vitamin d  

both of those can help reduce the inflammation  without adding in the iron for the pathogens  

so now you know the symptoms and what causes  anemia and if you haven’t seen my video on  

chronic inflammation and anemia i’m going  to put it up right here check it out you