All right, we have our controversial iron episode.

I don't think it's controversial.

I think that people just don't understand like how iron metabolism works in the body.

So they get upset when other people will talk about, you know,

maybe how iron supplementation isn't like the best option for everyone and focusing on Whole Foods first, which I don't think

is a controversial approach, but a lot of people do. So strap in controversial episode coming.

I don't think it is. I think that iron just gets a lot of people up in arms, probably even more

so than copper, which is, you know, a lot of people feel strongly

about copper. But I think like most minerals, once you understand how we regulate iron, how iron

metabolism works, you can see past the confusing information that leads people to go to extremes,

like, or to be on like one out of the spectrum or the other. If you've been listening to my podcast for any

length of time, I hope you know by now that I'm usually falling somewhere in the middle. I like to

avoid extremes because I just, there's usually like something missing. And I think when you actually

work one on women with people, you see every extreme. And so you and all the in-between's, like, it's such a

spectrum that that's when you're like, okay, like this one extreme does not work for everyone,

this one extreme does not work for everyone. There is an in-between. And so I'm going to go through

how the iron recycling system works. What we use iron for in the body, like I do in

every deep dive, all the different functions, and then different iron imbalances. So I'll talk about how

copper impacts iron, how copper imbalances can impact iron, and then I'm going to go into the different

types of anemia. There's a lot of them, so it's not going to be in a ton of detail. But my goal is to show

you that it's not always iron, and you can have an anemia that can impact iron or red blood

cells or hemoglobin that we have to look at other nutrients for. And then finally, I'll go through

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