Thursday, April 15, 2010

Not Thyroid...ANEMIA

2 comments:

Matt Stone said...

The diagnosis of malabsorption due to weight loss surgery is probably accurate. But dieting and being in a functional state of famine (from years of dieting and having a low body temperature) can also cause severe anemia, which has nothing to do with the amount of iron you ingest. From Ancel Keys...

“The evidence is overwhelming that anemia develops during prolonged periods of caloric restriction, and the degree of anemia appears to be related to the extent of starvation…The anemia… is not of the iron deficiency type.”

Hmmm, you've had how many decades of caloric restriction?

Val said...

I can bring you some iron dextran Lisa ;-)
[They tell me it stings however!]

 

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