Rethinking Low Iron: The Root-Cause Method for Women Who've Tried Everything
You've Taken the Iron. You've Done What You Were Told. So Why Won't Your Levels Move?
When iron won't budge despite your best efforts, the answer usually lies in what's stopping your body from absorbing and using it. In this 60-minute masterclass, Steph Lowe explores the regulation, blockers and losses behind stubborn low iron, and why simply taking more so rarely helps.
Start Watching NowDoes This Sound Like Your Iron Story?
- You've taken your iron supplement as prescribed, and your levels still haven't improved
- You've been told your iron is fine, yet you still have the fatigue, hair loss or breathlessness that come with low iron
- Your periods are heavy, and you've never been told how much blood loss is too much
- You've had an iron infusion and it didn't work
- Nobody has been able to explain why your iron is low, and the only advice has been to take more
If even one of these sounds familiar, it's time to look beyond the dose to the approach behind it.
Why Aren't Your Results Changing?
Your body has its own system for deciding how much iron it lets in, and most iron advice overlooks it entirely. At the centre of that system is hepcidin, a hormone made by your liver that regulates absorption.
Take iron in a way that works against hepcidin and much of it never reaches your bloodstream, however diligent you are. Add an undiagnosed absorption issue or ongoing losses, and even the most consistent effort can leave your levels exactly where they started.
In this masterclass, Steph walks you through how iron regulation works, what may be blocking or draining your iron, and how to build an approach that finally works with your body.
Watch the MasterclassHere's What Steph Unpacks in 60 Minutes
The System Behind Your Iron
How hepcidin, a hormone made by your liver, decides how much iron you absorb, and why your genes can explain why the same dose works for one woman and not another.
Why Your Levels Aren't Moving
Whether absorption, ongoing losses or the way you're taking your supplement is holding you back, and how to tell which is driving yours. Many women have more than one at play.
Seeing the Full Picture
The markers to read alongside ferritin, the testing conditions that change your results, reference ranges suited to each life stage, and the cofactors that decide whether iron is actually used.
Choosing Your Next Step
The forms of oral iron Steph prescribes and why, when an infusion is genuinely the right tool, and the risks to understand before you agree to one.
Why Low Iron Is Personal for Me
Hi, I’m Steph Lowe — nutritionist, mum, and founder of The Natural Nutritionist.
Growing up, my mum always had low iron. Her periods were heavy, and her iron tablets lived on the top shelf of the pantry. Then she went through menopause, had her iron studies done, and her ferritin was the highest I'd ever seen it. Decades of heavy periods had masked a genetic tendency to store iron, and once they stopped, her plan flipped completely.
I have those genes too, and I see versions of this story in clinic all the time: women who've done everything they were told, with nobody explaining why it isn't working.
One client was losing well over 260 mils of blood a month. When she asked her GP why her periods were so heavy, he told her some women just do. So we investigated, with pelvic ultrasounds, hormone testing and more, to find out exactly why, treat the cause and fix her iron levels.
That's why I created this masterclass.
Find the Missing Piece in Your Iron Story
This hour reveals the system behind your iron levels, so your next step is finally informed by what's actually happening in your body.
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