High school distance runner. Great winter base, great start to the outdoor season. Now completely tanking my races with times slower than workouts. Feel terrible. Just got blood work and ferritin is 11. Range is 7-142. Is that low? I’d love to know that it’s something biologic that I can treat,
Yes, that is low, (unless you deal with the athletic trainers and Doctors at our school).
Start taking iron supplements now and eat meat.
I had an issue with anemia and took liquid iron (Floradix... it's available on Amazon) with orange juice. It takes about a month to replace your red blood cells so if you start taking iron you'll begin to feel better in about three weeks as your body creates new red blood cells with a higher iron content.
Yeah 11 ng/mL is very low. You will feel much better if you get that up
Very low for a distance runner and do not let a doctor tell you otherwise. Aim for over 25 at the MINIMUM.
you want to be as close to 100 as possible. Take iron, good luck.
Tiredallthetime wrote:
Very low for a distance runner and do not let a doctor tell you otherwise. Aim for over 25 at the MINIMUM.
HaHa, 25, no wonder you are tired all the time.
Iron supplement. Do not eat meat, it is unhealthy, and not good for animals/environment.
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