I’ve just received my vitamin results. My ferritin is 52, serum vitamin b12 level 462 ng/l, serum folate level 16.5 ng/l (range 3-20), vitamin D 90.
A year ago my ferritin was 48, vitamin b12 331 and folate 12.3.
I’m disappointed my ferritin has only gone up by 4. I tried cutting tea out near meal times and sometimes took vitamin C with meals.
What have you been supplementing with?
Vit D is good.
Ferritin should be around 90 - 100 for best use of thyroid hormone. Suggest increasing iron rich foods in diet and eating them often. Chicken livers, pate, red meat etc
Link with ideas for dietary iron:
dailyiron.net/https://three...
Folate is good.
B12 should be above 500 for serum B12. What do you take for this?
I take vitamin D and B12 tablets I bought but not every day, maybe 3 times a week and sometimes less.
How much B12 and of what type is the B12?
Recommended to use methylcobalmin of 1,000iu every day. These are 2 examples: cytoplan.co.uk/vitamin-b12-...
amazon.co.uk/Better-You-Boo...
Vitamin b12 is called zipvit and 1100 mcg. I thought my vitamin b12 was ok. It’s increased from 330 just over a year ago. I suppose I just need to get it up a bit more.
Try and take it more regularly, daily.
Either that or really your folate could be a little higher so a B complex is usually recommended.
B complex suggestions: Slightly cheaper options with inactive B6:
amazon.co.uk/Liposomal-Soft...
Contains B6 as P5P an active form:
bigvits.co.uk/thorne-resear...
healf.com/products/basic-b-...
Explanation about the different forms of B6:
helvella.blogspot.com/p/hel...
B complex comparison spreadsheet:
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
Thank you.
vitamin D I’ve been taking is 4000 iu D3, 100 ug K2 (mk-7)
I thought my diet was ok and I ate enough iron rich foods. On my nhs app it says 30-100 ferritin is indeterminate ferritin result and 100-310 is normal ferritin.
As hypo people we get low stomach acid which means we dont absorb vitamins well from our food.
Optimal ferritin is said to be 90-100 when we can use our thyroid hormone best. I wouldn't be looking at the NHS for information about vitamins.
It came up with my result which was on my nhs app.
Actually is my vitamin d of 90 a bit high? I’m thinking I should take the vitamin d less often now.
90 is about right, you wouldn't want it any less.
Vitamin D should be around 100 - 150
Oh I read it shouldn’t be higher than 125.
I googled “What level of ferritin should be treated?” and I got the following
medicalnewstoday.com/articl...
If symptoms are in accordance with iron deficiency, the patient should be considered iron deficient at least up to a serum ferritin concentration of 100 μg/L, or even much higher, if the patient has an inflammatory condition, kidney disease or fatty liver 2, 3.
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