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Bad Iron Deficiency? Let’s look at a couple KEY nutrients to address it. Namely: Folate, Vitamin C

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If you have a iron deficiency, anemia, or just a bad iron deficiency or feritin deficiency, your doctor's tried everything and nothing works, probably you've got a B vitamin deficiency or a vitamin C deficiency. There's a product by seeking health called B complex

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methylree. I know everyone needs methyl groups, all that kind of stuff. This way, you won't overmethylate. You should get on that and vitamin C. And after maybe four weeks or five or six weeks of that, you'll start absorbing the iron. Or you could do the sailor micronutrient assay we we do with the redux panel.

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That way you have no doubt. That's almost always the cause. It's either B vitamin deficiency. It could be biotin even. It could be choline. Yeah, those are B vitamins. It could be a lot of other B vitamins. Or it could be a vitamin C deficiency. Anyway, just giving you a heads up. Take that and get

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vitamin C. It would probably be helpful if I had a bottle, but I don't have a bottle. You have any vitamin C? Do we have vitamins inside? I was sure. Okay, good. Delete all that. It's the one and only. Okay, this is Dr. Damn person just

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giving me a help alpha tip and ending years a problems for a lot of people. Bye.

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