Thanks for doing this! These results may affect my supplementation strategy.
My recent blood tests (unrelated to this blog post) -- if you have any thoughts on them let me know, I’d be curious what your threshold for low-but-not-clinical is.
Hemoglobin − 14.8 g/dL
Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy − 32.7 ng/mL
Vitamin B12 − 537 pg/mL
(I have other results I can send you privately if you want, from comp metabolic panel + cbc + lipid panel + D + B12; but didn’t think to ask for iron. Is it worth going back to ask for this? or might iron be under a name I don’t recognize?)
I’m vegan and have been solidly for > 1 year. Generally feel good, no particular fatigue except sleepiness after I eat carbs for lunch. I supplement B12, omega-3 EPA+DHA algae oil, creatine and occasional D3 gummies.
I can’t give that kind of individual advice. For ferritin (the best proxy for cellular iron) I gave some guesses here but those are more about returns to treating very low results. The data just isn’t there for finding optimal, and as people have pointed out elsewhere it is definitely possible to go too high.
Thanks for doing this! These results may affect my supplementation strategy.
My recent blood tests (unrelated to this blog post) -- if you have any thoughts on them let me know, I’d be curious what your threshold for low-but-not-clinical is.
Hemoglobin − 14.8 g/dL
Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy − 32.7 ng/mL
Vitamin B12 − 537 pg/mL
(I have other results I can send you privately if you want, from comp metabolic panel + cbc + lipid panel + D + B12; but didn’t think to ask for iron. Is it worth going back to ask for this? or might iron be under a name I don’t recognize?)
I’m vegan and have been solidly for > 1 year. Generally feel good, no particular fatigue except sleepiness after I eat carbs for lunch. I supplement B12, omega-3 EPA+DHA algae oil, creatine and occasional D3 gummies.
I can’t give that kind of individual advice. For ferritin (the best proxy for cellular iron) I gave some guesses here but those are more about returns to treating very low results. The data just isn’t there for finding optimal, and as people have pointed out elsewhere it is definitely possible to go too high.