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iron deficiency anemia can be a

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debilitating condition

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as you may already know if you've been

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diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia

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this video is going to help you a lot

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because i'm going to give you some

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information in it that you may

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never have heard before iron deficiency

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anemia is very very common across the

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world

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more than a billion and a half people

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suffer from it

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symptoms include fatigue weakness pale

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skin

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shortness of breath dizziness pica which

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means you have the

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overwhelming desire to eat dirt or clay

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or ice

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and leg tingling those are the most

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common symptoms

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the most common causes of iron

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deficiency anemia are either just not

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eating enough iron

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or not absorbing enough iron and that's

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what this video is really going to help

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you understand

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or you're losing blood from your body

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somewhere that you may or

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may not know about so if you're having

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any of these symptoms or if you've been

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diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia

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definitely follow up with your doctor to

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make sure you don't have

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some occult or hidden bleeding that

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you're not aware of

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but then after you've got that situated

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then it's time to worry about

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number one eating enough iron number two

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absorbing

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enough iron that's very very important

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i'm dr ken berry a family physician with

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20 years of clinical experience

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and i'm going to give you what may be

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your iron deficiency anemia

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solution the majority of the iron you

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eat is absorbed through

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your duodenum which is the first part of

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your small intestine

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most doctors know this you may or may

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not have known this

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uh but there is a bell curve

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distribution

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for your personal ability

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to absorb iron from your diet and it

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it is partly genetic but it's also

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partly the food

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that you're eating or the food that

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you're not eating many many doctors

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think that we all absorb iron the same

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exact way and in the same exact

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amount and that's just not true some

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people are very good at absorbing iron

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from their diet some people are very

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bad at absorbing iron from their diet

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there's a bell curve distribution like

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this

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this graphic so most people are right in

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the middle of this chart they

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absorb iron color blue well some people

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are on one end of the curve and they

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absorb it very very well

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out of their diet other people absorb

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iron very very poorly from their diet

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especially if they're not eating the

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right kind of iron

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in their diet there are two basic kinds

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of iron you can get from your diet

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there's plant-based iron which is called

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non-heme iron and we won't get into what

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that name means

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uh this is by far the most common iron

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that everybody around the world

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gets in their diet uh the problem is

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is that there are things in plants

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called phytic acid

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called polyphenols and call fiber which

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can inhibit

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your absorption of the iron that's

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contained in the plant-based food

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the most common sources of plant-based

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iron that you've probably been told to

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eat lots of

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are spinach kale fortified cereals

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uh dried fruit apricots raisins

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and beans lentils soybeans and then you

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may have also been told to take

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an iron supplement or a multivitamin

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with iron

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the problem with plant-based non-heme

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iron is that we don't absorb a lot of it

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none of us do

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even the very best absorbers can only

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absorb up to 12 percent

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give or take of the non-heme iron in

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plant foods

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some of us only absorb two percent of it

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because of the polyphenols the phytic

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acid and the fiber

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and so if you are a poor absorber you

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can eat all the spinach and kale

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and soybean stuff that you want and

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you're just not going to get enough iron

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absorbed into your body that your body

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can actually use

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and the iron found in iron supplements

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and prescription iron pills are

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notoriously

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poorly absorbed and much of them remain

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in your

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your gastrointestinal system and wind up

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in your colon which leads to the most

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common side effect

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of iron supplements and iron

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prescriptions which is constipation

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so if you've been eating tons of

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fortified cereals that are supposedly

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high in iron

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and lots of dark green leafy vegetables

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which are

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high in iron but perhaps you can absorb

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them then what i'm about to talk about

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next may surprise you but it also may be

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the key that unlocks your prison

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of iron deficiency anemia the iron found

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in

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animal foods like meat and eggs is

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called

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heme iron and it is a different

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uh molecular kind of iron than you would

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find in plants

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it is much much more absorbable

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and so even if a animal-based source of

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iron has less iron than a plant-based

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source

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you're probably still going to get more

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usable iron

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from the animal-based source meat and

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eggs than you would get from a

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plant-based source because you're able

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to absorb

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so much more of the heme iron versus the

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non-heme iron

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great sources of heme iron in

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animal-based foods are

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any liver at all from any animal is

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going to be a great source of heme iron

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many of the a serving of many livers

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will give you almost a full day supply

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of the iron that your body actually

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needs to and can absorb

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to use to correct your iron deficiency

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anemia

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other great sources are anchovies and

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sardines

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any beef any any meat uh

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muscle flesh of an animal is going to be

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a good source of iron some are a little

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better than others

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but if you if you are one of those

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people who just can't bring yourself

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to eat soft fluffy mammals which i

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totally get that i understand you can

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still get great sources of animal based

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heme iron

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from clams oysters mussels

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uh any poultry chicken or turkey or any

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other poultry is a good

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source of iron uh any seafood whatsoever

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and then any egg and pasture raised eggs

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whether the chickens or turkey have

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actually been allowed to go out and eat

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real

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chicken and turkey food have better iron

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and

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more absorbable iron but even the cheap

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eggs from the grocery store even the

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cheap canned oysters or clams or mussels

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any of these are really good sources of

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highly absorbable

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heme iron most heme iron is absorbed at

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a rate from

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20 to 40 percent and so

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if you go back to the bell curve if

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you're one of those very very poor

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absorbers

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of non-heme iron then adding just a

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little bit of animal food

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into your diet meat and eggs or

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hopefully liver

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you're going to get so much more iron

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from just a small portion

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of the meat than you would get from the

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plants

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most dairy foods are not really that

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great of a source of

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heme iron definitely skim milk low fat

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milk two percent milk those are not

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going to give you much iron if any at

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all

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uh parmesan cheese and then all of the

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different

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goat cheeses are the best dairy options

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if you're trying to get iron

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from dairy now listen up this is very

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important

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if you have made an ethical or religious

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decision

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not to eat meat in your diet

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that's okay but here's what you've got

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to understand if you're a poor absorber

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on the bell curve then you're never

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going to correct your iron deficiency

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anemia

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unless you add in some kind of animal

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based heme iron into your diet so that

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you can actually absorb it

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and your body can actually use it this

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is what i call

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therapeutic meat okay now there are

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multiple examples

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where religions have made exemptions for

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people's health care

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a good example is a jewish rabbi

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has said that it's okay for jews to use

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desiccated pork thyroid in the form of

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armor nature

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wp or thyroid because it's therapeutic

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and so even though jews are told not to

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eat pork

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they can use this product because it has

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a therapeutic benefit that they perhaps

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can't get

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from the synthetic thyroid replacement

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hormones so i want you to consider

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having a therapeutic meat exemption

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in whatever your ethical diet vegan the

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vegetarian

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whether it's just ethical or whether

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it's religious

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you really need to think your health

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takes

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precedent over most of the things in

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your life if you're not healthy if

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you're constantly fatigued and short of

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breath

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and considering eating the ice out of

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the inside of your freezer because

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you're so iron deficient

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think how much more productive you would

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be think how much more uh

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successful you would be promoting things

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that you believe in

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making money taking care of your family

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if you actually could get rid of those

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symptoms and get rid of your iron

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deficiency anemia

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so i want you to really think about this

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and consider a therapeutic meat option

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and not that you're going to enjoy the

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eggs or meat not that you're going to

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proclaim that you're doing this not that

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you're going to

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espouse this to other people you're

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doing this for your health

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and i think that is ethical and and it

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makes very good sense to me

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now you don't have to eat mammals to get

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your therapeutic meat

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treatment you don't even have to eat

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things with faces animals with faces you

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could literally

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get your heme iron from clams oysters

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and mussels and from eggs so you never

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had to eat anything with a face and so

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i'm i hope you understand i'm being very

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respectful i understand you've made a

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choice

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ethically to not eat animals or to not

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eat mammals or wherever

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your line of ingestion happens to fall

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and i respect that but at the same time

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i don't want you to suffer for the rest

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of your life

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with iron deficiency anemia or wind up

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having heart failure or wind up having

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to have blood transfusions because of

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this

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disabling iron deficiency anemia that

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you currently have

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the most at risk populations for

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developing iron deficiency anemia

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are children of all ages uh reproductive

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age

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women pregnant women and then the

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elderly these are the people most at

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risk for developing this

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and these are the people that regardless

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of what ethical decisions you've made

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about what you're going to eat or not

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eat

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you really need to think about the

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therapeutic meat option

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in order to reclaim your health people

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who are frequent blood donors can have

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this congestive heart failure patients

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can have iron deficiency anemia

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people with gut conditions like

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ulcerative colitis crohn's

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celiac disease or if you've had a row

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and y

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gastric bypass surgery you are at

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increased risk for iron deficiency

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anemia

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and even though you may not think it's

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ethical to consume

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animal products i really think you

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should consider the therapeutic meat

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option

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another big population of people who

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suffer from iron deficiency anemia

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and oftentimes they don't know why and

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maybe even their doctor doesn't know

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is people who take proton pump

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inhibitors like ass effects

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prevacid protonix and nexium these block

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your stomach acid and stomach acid is

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vital for the proper absorption of iron

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from your diet and so if you're taking

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one of those pills and you've been iron

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deficient anemic

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and your doctor didn't know why i

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couldn't figure it out that's probably

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why

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in children iron is absolutely mandatory

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for them to develop into their full

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potential as adults

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and one there there are many parts of

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the world where there's just no animal

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food available or

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religious uh rules prevent children from

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eating enough

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heme iron and animal based products in

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order to not be iron fishing anemic

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in the u.s and other modern societies

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it's very common for a child to be an

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accidental vegan

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and i've got a video about that i'll

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have it pop up

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here or here so that you can make sure

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that your child is not an accidental

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vegan

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but that can lead to very severe iron

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deficiency anemia

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and the doctor may not even be able to

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figure that one out either

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i've included some research links in the

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show notes down below

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if in case you want to do some further

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reading this is dr berry i'll see you

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next time