Low ferritin, high HCT/RBC, donate? what dosage for iron?

[blinkyvx]

T dosage 140mg split daily.
started iron glycinate 100mg EOD based on this study showing superior absorption vs ED dosing, yes it was done in women.
-other intake caffeine 200mg day of lab draw and daily
-Donated last 9/20/2019
-high meat diet
no prior ferritin labs to compare

Symptoms; Tingles and itching with working out and runnning, elevated HR during squats/ Deads
-also started 600mg daily grapefruit seed extract.
Donate? wait for iron to go up?

 

[blinkyvx]

no one has any input/ideas? Any one tried 1,200 mg of grapefruit seed extract? For lowering HCT, i've read 600mg seems standard dose

 

[Vvs1]

Your iron labs seem good. Too much iron, even normal range could cause oxidative stress. May want to test copper rbc to see if it’s low, as it’s involved with further processing of iron.

Shot in the dark regarding symptoms could be high histamine or histamine intolerance.

 

[blinkyvx]

Do even with near high HCT and RBC interesting. I read something on the histamine thing.. though i eat a carnivore diet which should have near zero histamine causing things, meat fish chicken and salt no other spices..

So try a benadryl pre workout? I will look into copper rbc if able to do/pay for

ya was this article i stumbled on..Can You Be Allergic To Exercise? "In your skin, there are allergy-containing units called mast cells, that are essentially waiting to be triggered. When your body temperature rises, the mast cells release histamine, "leading to identical allergy symptoms that one may experience from normal environmental triggers," he says. "

 

[Vvs1]

Do even with near high HCT and RBC interesting. I read something on the histamine thing.. though i eat a carnivore diet which should have near zero histamine causing things, meat fish chicken and salt no other spices..

So try a benadryl pre workout? I will look into copper rbc if able to do/pay for

ya was this article i stumbled on..Can You Be Allergic To Exercise? "In your skin, there are allergy-containing units called mast cells, that are essentially waiting to be triggered. When your body temperature rises, the mast cells release histamine, "leading to identical allergy symptoms that one may experience from normal environmental triggers," he says. "

Carnivore still causes histamine, especially pork and shrimp are 2 off the top of my head.

Not sure if Benadryl will fix. I feel like I’ve read things about histamine intolerance that say Benadryl makes it worse.

Copper RBC is hard to find anymore. I bought mine off LEF but it seems to be gone now.

 

[blinkyvx]

Carnivore still causes histamine, especially pork and shrimp are 2 off the top of my head.
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Right leftover food as well! Although I can't recall adding a lot of pork or shrimp when i first had onset symptoms though, but it was 2 months ago...

And yes anti-histamines are bad long term too, zertec as well... Maybe i need to just go back to strict beef. And monitor symptom relief. Or trial zzertec and see if it does anything at all, at least then ill have a good piece of info..

well so do nothing in regard to iron? ferritin of only 50 seems low regardless, some sites say avg of least 100 for men.