the hematologist, the midwife, and the man who nearly died of iron overload
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Hi Reader,
I've been working extra hard on this & wanted you to see the lineup first!
The Ferritin Terrain Summit runs October 26 to 30, with new talks starting at 11am ET every day. A hematologist, two midwives, a man who nearly died of iron overload, and a dozen more experts look at low ferritin and iron dysregulation from every angle: blood work, gut, genes, hormones, minerals, pregnancy, kids, and light. Grab your free ticket here.
I also just wrote THS article on how to look at a blood panel that costs you less than $100 to understand where your ferritin issue is coming from CLICK HERE
11am: Dr. Leland Stillman, MD, The Doctor Who Looks Past Your Labs: Ferritin, Autoimmunity, and Healing the Whole Person
12pm: Chris Voustas, Stop Guessing: How to Read Your Own Iron Panel (and What Else Actually Matters)
1pm: Dr. Julia Saylors, Inside the Blood: An Integrative Hematologist and Oncologist on What Your Ferritin Really Means
Tuesday, October 27: Why Your Iron Isn't Sticking
11am: Steve Wright, Gut First: Why Your Iron Isn't Sticking (and What Stomach Acid Has to Do With It)
12pm: Justine Stenger, Why Iron Loading Fails: Feeding Your Cells With Phospholipids, Essential Amino Acids, and Light
1pm: Lauren Keller, MA, APRN, CNM, The Iron-Deficient Woman's Missing Pieces: Minerals, Carbs, and What Your Blood Work Can't See
Wednesday, October 28: Moms, Kids, and Advocating for Yourself
11am: Suzie Campana, CPM, LM, Ferritin in Pregnancy and Postpartum: Your Levels by Trimester and When It Becomes an Emergency
12pm: Jaimee Arroyo, FNP-BC, Why I Test Every Child's Hemoglobin: Getting to the Root of Low Iron in Kids (Not Just Prescribing Pills)
1pm: Me! Your Labs, Your Voice: Navigating Low Ferritin and Hair Loss as Your Own Advocate
Thursday, October 29: Hormones, Thyroid, and the Female Body
11am: Melissa Ramos, Iron, Thyroid, and Ancient Wisdom: How Chinese Medicine Nourishes the Female Body
12pm: Becca Chilczenkowski, Why Women Suffer So Much in Perimenopause: A Deep Dive on Hormones and Ferritin
1pm: Nikko Kennedy, The Quantum Definition of Ferritin: Circadian Biology for Moms and Babies
Friday, October 30: Too Low, Too High, and Your Genes
11am:Dr. Tyler Panzner, PhD, Same Ferritin, Different Genes: Why One-Size-Fits-All Iron Advice Fails (and When Supplements Can Be Dangerous)
12pm: Joshua Rubin, When Ferritin Runs Too High: What Nearly Dying of Iron Overload Taught Me (and Why You Might Not Want to Raise Yours)
1pm: Ryan Mitchel Brown, NTP, Stuck in Alarm Mode: A Nervous System Path Back to Energy for Women With Low Iron and Autoimmunity
I built this summit because I lived it. I was stuck, nobody could tell me why, and it took looking at my whole terrain, not just one number, to finally move it. These are the people who helped me see the full picture.
Here's what you get with VIP:
Lifetime access to every replay, with timestamps and transcripts. If your schedule is limited or these times don't line up with your life, you can watch whenever it works for you, skip right to the section you need, or read the transcript instead. (click here for the VIP ticket)
IMMEDIATE ACCESS with VIP today:The Ferritin Clarity Roadmap, my 5-phase self-assessment course that walks you through nutrition, blood loss, digestion, hormones and stress, and circadian rhythm to find where your iron is actually getting stuck.
Low ferritin content is everywhere I look right now. Your doctor might dismiss you, and then the internet will convince you that you need $3,000 of testing to sort it out.
In some cases extra testing might be warranted, but you can do a lot of investigating on your own if you know where to look.
Here’s the thing: low ferritin potentially comes from five different places, and each one calls for a different strategy. Taking an iron pill and hoping for the best skips the most important question, which is why it’s low in the first place.
One basic set of labs can give you clues about all five. A CMP (comprehensive metabolic panel), a CBC (complete blood count), and hs-CRP. If you haven’t had ferritin and an iron panel recently, add those too. At a lot of labs, the whole thing still comes in under a hundred dollars.
