If your iron levels aren’t budging, read this. 🧵

These common habits can reduce iron absorption. 🚩Drinking tea, coffee, or wine with iron supplements or iron-rich foods. ➡️The polyphenols can bind to iron and reduce absorption. 🚩Pairing iron with calcium. ➡️It decreases absorption when taken together.

These small changes can help boost iron absorption. Consider pairing iron with: ✅Vitamin C. It significantly enhances iron absorption and can help offset dietary inhibitors in plant-based meals. ✅Meat, poultry, or seafood alongside plant-based iron sources. ✅Cooking in cast iron. It can increase iron content of food.

@function My iron levels are too high. What do you suggest to lower it? Recently had your tests and love that I've got a snapshot of what my body is doing so that I can make corrections where required.