382: How to Optimize Iron and Ferritin Levels for a Healthy Pregnancy with Dr. Matt Angove of Dr. Wholeness
What is iron, what’s its role in pregnancy and why is it important to understand? This episode is a comprehensive conversation about iron and pregnancy. Our guest Dr. Matt Angove, naturopathic physician and creator of Dr. Wholeness, shares a ton of knowledge with us on the topic of iron and specifically ferritin levels.
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Show Notes
What is iron, what’s its role in pregnancy and why is it important to understand?
This episode is a comprehensive conversation about iron and pregnancy. Our guest Dr. Matt Angove, naturopathic physician and creator of Dr. Wholeness, shares a ton of knowledge with us on the topic of iron and specifically ferritin levels.
Here are some of the questions we address:
- What is iron and what role does it serve in the body?
- What makes iron important during pregnancy?
- Do needs change for preconception and/or postpartum as well?
- What’s ferritin and how does it factor in with this conversation?
- How to check for these levels?
- How to optimize the levels?
- Why does most iron cause side effects like stomach pain, constipation or nausea?
- Can you take too much? Why can that be a problem?
- How to take iron for maximum absorption and effectiveness?
- Iron in a prenatal vs. iron supplement?
We also chat with Dr. Matt about home birth, as he and his wife Ama had 5 of their children at home (with twins included in that count!).
This episode is sponsored by Dr. Wholeness – an online community that provides tips, tools, and resources to help people create a winning health routine by accumulating health – one habit at a time. You can learn more about Dr. Wholeness on the website https://drwholeness.com/ and find the product Blood Vitality at https://bit.ly/3IXEHJS (use the code BloodVitality15 for 15% off your purchase).
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