Women's health after 40, and what the research actually supports
The lipid and iron shifts that follow menopause, with an emphasis on reading your own lab results.
How iron needs change around menopause? There is a particular bottle that sits in a lot of kitchens. It was bought during a stretch of heavy periods, or handed over by a mother who worried her daughter looked pale, and it has been part of the morning routine ever since. Then the periods stop. And … Read more
Red yeast rice has been sold as a cholesterol supplement for decades, and for most of that time the European Union agreed it worked. There was an authorised health claim on the books saying so. That claim is now gone, and the ingredient behind it sits under a restriction that caps how much can go … Read more
Iron is one of the few supplement ingredients where the regulatory framing and the clinical reality point in different directions. The approved claims describe what iron does in a normally functioning body. The reason most people buy it is something the claims can’t mention. The approved wording Iron in Korea is a notified nutrient … Read more
Most ingredient posts in this series end with “the evidence is weaker than the marketing.” This one is different. Red yeast rice works. That’s the problem. Its active compound is chemically identical to a prescription statin, and the regulatory history that follows from that fact is unlike anything else covered here. Identical, not similar … Read more
The link between dizziness and anemia is real, which is why feeling dizzy and reaching for an iron supplement is such a common sequence. It’s also a sequence that skips several steps that matter. Before anything else, this post begins with the part that can’t wait. Seek care immediately if any of these are … Read more