Iron:
If your iron is low, in addition to iron rich foods, to bring it back up to normal quicker,
supplementing for 3+ months can be helpful.
-Eating or drinking citrus or taking 250mg Vitamin C with your iron increased absorption
-Avoid taking your iron with cereals, dietary fiber, tea, coffee, eggs, or milk since they bind iron.
-Ferrous Sulfate 325mg (65mg elemental iron) by mouth once per day, or up to three times per
day is a standard recommendation; if it is too hard on your stomach, or causes constipation, you
can take the elemental iron equivalent in another formulation (it does make the stool dark, by the
way).
-Other Formulations: Slow FE, Gentle Iron, Iron citrate 23mg iron per cap, Ferrous fumarate,
Ferrous gluconate
-Overall dietary iron intake (in times of deficiency) is recommended to be 150-200mg.
If your iron is low, in addition to iron rich foods, to bring it back up to normal quicker,
supplementing for 3+ months can be helpful.
-Eating or drinking citrus or taking 250mg Vitamin C with your iron increased absorption
-Avoid taking your iron with cereals, dietary fiber, tea, coffee, eggs, or milk since they bind iron.
-Ferrous Sulfate 325mg (65mg elemental iron) by mouth once per day, or up to three times per
day is a standard recommendation; if it is too hard on your stomach, or causes constipation, you
can take the elemental iron equivalent in another formulation (it does make the stool dark, by the
way).
-Other Formulations: Slow FE, Gentle Iron, Iron citrate 23mg iron per cap, Ferrous fumarate,
Ferrous gluconate
-Overall dietary iron intake (in times of deficiency) is recommended to be 150-200mg.
| Vitamins and Minerals: |
In General, I don't feel like pills are a substitute for a healthy balanced diet of
food grown without toxins (pesticides), but sometimes in cases of certain
deficiencies or health conditions, supplementing with certain vitamins or
minerals is appropriate.
food grown without toxins (pesticides), but sometimes in cases of certain
deficiencies or health conditions, supplementing with certain vitamins or
minerals is appropriate.
