Are You Suffering From Iron Deficiency?
- Determine if you're at high, medium or low risk for iron deficiency
- Help you uncover the hidden reasons and symptoms you may be experiencing
- Give you detailed report and research-backed solutions to help you elevate your iron levels
If you’ve felt sluggish or have experienced a decline in training & racing performance, low iron levels may be the culprit.
1,000+ Athletes Helped
Are You Suffering From Iron Deficiency?
Symptoms of iron deficiency masquerade as everything from overtraining to poor sleep. Our simple quiz will help you…
- Determine if you're at high, medium or low risk for iron deficiency
- Help you uncover the hidden reasons and symptoms you may be experiencing
- Give you detailed report and research-backed solutions to help you elevate your iron levels
If you’ve felt sluggish or have experienced a decline in training & racing performance, low iron levels may be the culprit.
1,000+ Athletes Helped
Symptoms of iron deficiency masquerade as everything from overtraining to poor sleep. Our simple quiz will help you…
- Determine if you're at high, medium or low risk for iron deficiency
- Help you uncover the hidden reasons and symptoms you may be experiencing
- Give you detailed report and research-backed solutions to help you elevate your iron levels
If you’ve felt sluggish or have experienced a decline in training & racing performance, low iron levels may be the culprit.
1,000+ Athletes Helped
Why You Have a Greater Risk of Being Iron Deficient as an Endurance Athlete?
Loss of Iron With Each Step
A process called foot strike hemolysis occurs in runners, especially those who run high mileage. Foot strike hemolysis is a process where red blood cells are damaged when the foot hits the ground, thus reducing your hemoglobin levels.
Loss of Iron Through Sweating
Iron is lost through sweating. While the amount of iron loss isn’t staggering, for a runner working out in hot and humid conditions, the losses can easily add up, especially compared to the general population.
Loss of Iron from GI Tract
Third, loss of iron through the GI tract (primarily the stomach or large intestine) is a problem for some athletes. Iron loss through the GI tract is fairly minor, but there may be a cumulative effect over months of running that leads to iron deficiency.
Loss of Iron from Menstruation
Finally, female runners have an especially difficult time maintaining proper iron levels since they also lose iron during menstruation
Which results in...
Of All Runners Being Iron Deficient
More Likely to Suffer from Low Iron Compared to Non-Runners.
How Does Iron Deficiency Impact Your Health & Performance?
Outside of training deficiencies, low iron is one of the most common reasons for poor results during workouts and races.
low iron levels Result in fewer red blood cells to transport oxygen
Red blood cells, which contain hemoglobin, transport oxygen to your working muscles when you run.
If you have low iron levels, you will generate fewer red blood cells and your hemoglobin levels will decline. Therefore, less oxygen will be transported to your muscles, and running performance will suffer.
low iron stores result in significant declines in lactate threshold
Ferritin is an iron storage protein; your body uses it to hold on to iron atoms until they’re needed
New research has has indicated that low ferritin levels have a persistent, performance-inhibiting effect even when hemoglobin levels are normal.
In fact, researchers found that rowers with low ferritin and normal hemoglobin are as much as 21 seconds slower than the rowers with normal ferritin.
iron deficiency increases mental & physical fatigue from TRAINING
Iron deficiency has been shown in research to be directly responsible for increased levels of physical and mental fatigue from training.
This effect may be linked to an alteration of mitochondrial metabolism in the muscle that reduces physical capacity.
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