Ferritin IS affected by infections. Ferritin will rise when someone has an infection because the body is removing free iron from the blood stream...
I have never understood why doctors would assume that giving someone iron to raise a low level will fix anything very much for very long. If...
That doctor needs to do some revision on ferritin. Pathogens can access free iron in the blood stream, and this helps them to reproduce. But they...
I completely disagree with this. Deciding that a condition might be "functional" i.e. all in the head, can kill people who could have been...
I wonder why iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia are separated as well. My iron and iron-related results tend to be inconsistent - in the...
I agree that the word stress is overworked to an extreme degree, and I don't think I've ever seen it defined in a medical context. I'm very...
I'm curious what you think of this paper? Effect of iron supplementation on fatigue in nonanemic menstruating women with low ferritin: a...
I developed the same problems as you back in the 1980s and 1990s. I started off using my first mouse in my left hand, then switched to my right....
Does having h pylori confer any benefits on humans? I've read that it is estimated that 50% of humans are infected with it, so wondered if it did...
From the grassrootshealth website there is this chart, suggesting that incidence of quite a lot of ailments is reduced with optimal levels of...
This link suggests that we should all have a vitamin D level of 100 - 150 nmol/L (40 - 60 ng/mL) :...
I think this is what you are looking for : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09dw1l8 They really don't make it easy to find! I haven't looked for...
Why was this research necessary? Is there a poisoners' handbook available that I've never heard of? According to the Wiki article on aconitine :...
Will the authors of fraudlisting.com be reading this thread? If they aren't then any suggestions for sites they need to list will need to be sent...
NHS Dumfries & Galloway? https://www.nhsdg.co.uk/ I couldn't find the educational modules you refer to. Do you have a link? A search of the site...
I would say people are turned away from A&E because the number of people that doctors will believe about anything invisible gets smaller and...
Access to Sci-Hub in the UK has been disallowed by many ISPs as a result of a court judgement in favour of the copyright holders....
A very frightening link on the future of the NHS from the BMJ : A new public health body for the UK A commentary on the BMJ article can be found...
@Jaybee00 What is an OG infection?
This point is made over and over again and whoever expresses it is always being dishonest, in my opinion. The whole notion just glides right past...
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