{"id":86,"date":"2009-07-27T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/high-iron-blood-work\/.php"},"modified":"2009-07-27T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T15:33:33","slug":"high-iron-blood-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/high-iron-blood-work.php","title":{"rendered":"High Iron Blood Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/high-iron-blood-work.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong> High Iron Blood Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my younger years I wouldnt have given a shit if my blood iron was high &#8211; but now I care at 41.<\/p>\n<p>I know ast\/alt can be elevated without it being pathological &#8211; often just caused by weight training.<\/p>\n<p>This does not seem to be the case with ferritin, iron saturation &#038; iron binding capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Red blood cell count and myoglobulin can be elevated by exercise so do not necesarily mean anything pathological.<\/p>\n<p>But the iron numbers do seem to indicate pathology with no exercise cause.<\/p>\n<p>So I got the gene test and it was negative, maybe I ate too much big juicy steak, maybe it was the welding I did 10 yrs ago.<\/p>\n<p>I dont know. But I will give blood and do some chelation to improve my iron levels.<\/p>\n<p>Presently:<\/p>\n<p>Iron Binding Capacity: 34 umol\/l (45-75)<\/p>\n<p>Iron Saturation: 0.79 (.15-.50)<\/p>\n<p>Ferritin: 412 ug\/l (20-250)<\/p>\n<p>Iron: 27 umol\/l (10-30)<\/p>\n<p>Kind of pisses me off I didn&#8217;t catch it sooner &#8211; anyway I have no symptoms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet High Iron Blood Work In my younger years I wouldnt have given a shit if my blood iron was high &#8211; but now I care at 41. I know ast\/alt can be elevated without it being pathological &#8211; often just caused by weight training. This does not seem to be the case with ferritin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,311,310,309,312],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-ferritin","tag-iron","tag-iron-binding-capacity","tag-iron-saturation","tag-myoglobulin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}