How Iron Affects Your Hair, Skin and Nails

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there’s a very important relationship between iron and your hair your nails and your skin now the very interesting thing about this Trace mineral in that we have no internal mechanism to regulate the elimination of iron so just as a deficiency of iron could be very very devastating an excess of iron could be very very devastating but our body does have certain mechanisms depriving microbes of pathogens because almost all pathogens uh need iron to survive and so there is this huge competition of iron between our pathogens and our own cells but that’s going to be for a separate video today we’re going to talk about the effects of iron on our hair nails and skin and so many people are deficient in Iron I would say worldwide it’s about a billion people yet when you’re diagnosed with an iron deficiency you’re told to take Elemental iron Elemental iron is not the best form of iron for absorption and so many times when you take it you’re waiting for these symptoms to clear up but it never does and then you ask your doctor well what’s the root cause why am I iron deficient and they might say well you’re just anemic all right then why do I have anemia in the first place so I’m going to cover that but let’s first talk about how Iron affects your hair nails and skin all right as far as the skin goes when you’re deficient in iron it has huge consequences uh number one it creates a type of skin called salow Skin which is a pale slightly yellowish kind of a dull complexion you’re basically going to lose that bright complexion and now you’ll have this uneven skin tone that um you’ll see little blemishes you’ll see sometimes little red dots but overall a lack of iron really affects your overall complexion on your face now as far as your nails go you may find that your nails are brittle and if you’re chronically deficient in Iron you’re going to get that little spooning of the nail it’s going to look a little bit like the nail is scooped out so brittle nails and a spoon shaped nail all right what about the hair well the hair is going to lose its texture it’s going to become brittle kind of tough and you’ll see pattern hair loss now in men that is loss of hair on the top of the head in females pattern hair loss is basically thinning of the hair all over and so a lack of iron is one big cause of that and females are more deficient in Iron than men because they have their menstrual periods every month and they lose a lot of blood and because iron is part of hemoglobin and hemoglobin is part of blood when you lose blood you lose iron iron is needed for oxygen and so if you’re not able to have enough oxygen to your hair your nails or your skin all sorts of things can happen happen so how do you become deficient in Iron well one is you’re not taking enough iron in through the diet now the problem with iron in diet is that there’s two forms of iron you have heem iron and non-he iron and this relates to the efficiency of how Iron is um absorbed in your body when you consume iron from things like spinage or beans the absorption is much much less like spinach has an absorption rate of like 1. 5 beans are like 2. 2 but then when we get to like beef liver the absorption is like 15 then when we get to redne we’re talking about an absorption rate of 21 so if we compare the non heem Source roughly at a two and a heem source with red meat at a 21 you can see there’s a vast difference so consuming animal meat is going to give you a lot more iron and highly recommend you get your iron from food versus a supplement because the elemental iron that they give you in supplements is just it’s just it’s crap it’s low quality it’s not the type of iron that nature is providing you now if you absolutely cannot um eat red meat for some reason then I would recommend getting it from maybe a supplement that’s a um dehydrated uh beef liver or even a spleen extract from an animal all right then the next thing I want to talk about is your stomach if your stomach does not have enough hydrochloric acid okay this is very common you’re not going to absorb iron because the acid in the stomach makes the iron sble to be absorbed so if someone doesn’t have enough acid or they’re taking in acids because they have heartburn what ever or gird uh that could be the reason why they’re not absorbing iron and the interesting thing about not having enough hydrochloric acid to absorb iron is you’re probably not going to have enough hydrochloric acid to digest red meat either and I will get to a solution for that you just need to know that a lacost stomic acid can create Amia now another common cause is that your colon or your small intestine is inflamed okay any type of inflammatory uh gut issue will block the absorption of iron as in IBS Crohn’s diverticulitis irritable bowel syndrome etc etc so inflammation can definitely be a problem and so the number one cause of inflammation in the gut is there certain foods that you’re eating number one grains omega-6 fatty acids in grains or like things like soy oil or corn oil or canila oil or cotton seed oil which is in pretty much all the foods especially if you go out to dinner and you eat something fried you’re going to have a lot of omega-6 fatty acids and that’s going to create inflammation in your gut and some people are sensitive to nuts and seeds and even chocolate and sometimes even coffee beans and those things can create inflammation as well so if a person is eating a lot of peanut butter for example and they feel a lot of bloating or stomach pain that could be an indication that you have inflammation in your gut all right the other thing that can block iron is something called phytic acid which is in grains Le beans legum so if you consume lot of Cal for example that could be the reason why you’re not absorbing iron because of all this ftic acid if you germinate um nuts like let’s say you soak them overnight and then you dehydrate them uh that will get rid of a lot of the fyto acid or if you sprout the seed you get rid of the ftic acid also um too much brand the fiber in grains can block iron as well as too much copper if you’re taking a lot of copper um that can block iron and also if you have lead in your body that can block iron all right and next one is blood loss so menstration is a common cause of blood loss uh if you have an ulcer that could be a cause or if there’s any other type of bleeding inside your gut um that could be a cause of a loss of iron like let’s say you had cancer for example and your colon and you’re bleeding and you’re wondering why your stool is a dark red well that could be the reason if you had gastric bypass okay that could be the reason why you’re not absorbing iron and the last reason is alcohol okay if you drink alcohol on a regular basis that could be the reason why you are deficient in Iron all right so here are things you need to do number one start consuming red meat if you can okay now number two this is going to handle the pH problem with the stomach you need to start taking something called Bane hydrochloride um that’s going to acidify the stomach and that’s going to allow you to digest the red meat okay and it’s going to help you absorb iron so more animal meats and ban hydrochloride to acidify the stomach and I would also recommend if you’re going to take betan hydrochloride to take uh five to six maybe even seven before a meal because I found you have to take a little bit more of it to really have it work it will take a period of weeks maybe even months to fully correct all right next thing is to stop eating the foods that are blocking iron uh foods that have phyto acid like the grains the nuts the seeds those can be a problem and stop eating things that are creating inflammation that’s blocking your gut and that would be the grains primarily and things that are high in Omega 6 fatty acids