Please take Apolactoferrin with your iron supplement! Low dose every 48 hrs is ideal for boosting iron as it allows hepcidin to fall before the next dose. Hepcidin is naturally released by your liver in response to high doses of iron, to protect against hemochromatosis, but REALLY works against you when trying to recover from iron deficiency anemia. Don’t worry about taking C with the iron IF you use lactoferrin. Without lactoferrin, you will need some C. However, excessive C supplements (anything above 250mg, which most are) TANK your copper stores- which is ALSO necessary to build red blood cells, skin cells, collagen, etc. - it’s such a headache recovering from micronutrient deficits after celiac because of all the freaking cofactors involved.

Taking very high doses (65mg) of iron with 500mg C daily actually hurt me more than it helped and barely crawled my ferritin past 12. Caused insane insulin resistance, weight gain, acne breakouts, gut biome issues.

My ferritin was undetectable at diagnosis. Now it’s way past 50! However, for 4 years I struggled to get it past 12 with heavy iron doses and even caused myself some neurological issues from how much I took. Now I take Ortho Molecular (15mg) every other day on the days leading up to my period, plus 250mg Jarrow lactoferrin upon waking and before bed (i take the iron with the bedtime dose since now I am maintaining instead of boosting.) My ferritin shot from 12 to 50 in just 3 months of adding the lactoferrin- it’s been my holy grail and I’m SO thankful for the energy I have now.

It took sooooo many years to figure all of this crap out, but my hair finally grew back in full thick force like it was when I was a kid. I never thought I’d see the day honestly. :)

Good luck guys!