How to boost B12 & ferritin levels quickly

[Hypo88]

Looking for advice on how to get b12 and ferritin levels up to mid range as mine are currently towards the bottom quartile of the ref ranges

Any supplements recommended in particular ?

[Clutter]

Hypo88,

1,000mcg methycobalamin will raise B12 and 210mg Ferrous Fumarate taken with 1,000mg vitamin C will raise ferritin. Take iron 4 hours away from Levothyroxine.

[Hypo88 in reply to Clutter]

Thanks do you know if they need to be taken forever or can levels maintain once raised

[Clutter in reply to Hypo88]

Hypo88,

It's an individual thing. If levels drop when you stop supplementing you will need to continue supplementing.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Good idea to take vitamin B complex too when taking vitamin B12. This helps keep all the B's in balance and will also boost Folate

But if you are taking vitamin B complex, or any supplements containing biotin, remember to stop these 3-5 days before any blood tests, as biotin can falsely affect test results

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[Hypo88 in reply to SlowDragon]

Interesting biotin can lower TSH I have taken that aswell

[humanbean]

Iron comes in various different forms. The commonest supplements contain "iron salts" such as ferrous fumarate or sulphate or gluconate or bisglycinate. Iron can also be supplemented in the form of ferritin and haem (or heme).

You should read this link by helvella, one of the admins :

dropbox.com/sh/3waycnbzhywi...

If you wanted to, you could supplement iron salts and heme supplements and ferritin supplements, although I would suggest comprehensive iron testing every month if you did this, and I wouldn't want to do it myself! Excessive iron and/or ferritin in the body is poisonous and dangerous. I think supplementing all these different forms of iron at the same time would be very expensive!

[Hypo88 in reply to humanbean]

I’ve recently bought Lindens iron but my next purchases will be FErrous fumarate & b complex