You mention seeing iron deficiency on a blood test and I wonder what your test results were/are for ferritin and the other components for measuring iron deficiency. I also wonder if they are higher after you eat meat for a while versus when you are abstaining. That sort of detail would make this anecdote easier to learn from. As is, I can’t tell if it’s applicable to me.
I’m supplementing creatine based on some tentative studies that may not replicate but also based on my n=1 experience that I feel a bit smarter with it. But hard to tell if it’s placebo or not.
It was ferritin. However the levels where actually barely within acceptable levels. I hypothesise that because I started to eat steamed blood for perhaps 2 weaks prior every day, and that blood contains a lot of heme iron, that I was deficient before.
You mention seeing iron deficiency on a blood test and I wonder what your test results were/are for ferritin and the other components for measuring iron deficiency. I also wonder if they are higher after you eat meat for a while versus when you are abstaining. That sort of detail would make this anecdote easier to learn from. As is, I can’t tell if it’s applicable to me.
I’m supplementing creatine based on some tentative studies that may not replicate but also based on my n=1 experience that I feel a bit smarter with it. But hard to tell if it’s placebo or not.
It was ferritin. However the levels where actually barely within acceptable levels. I hypothesise that because I started to eat steamed blood for perhaps 2 weaks prior every day, and that blood contains a lot of heme iron, that I was deficient before.