hey y'all hey its ya girl Star 
and I met with another video okay so
when the most talked about things in my
inbox in my private messages is I am why
what we should do and all that stuff so
I really want to take time to do a video
detailing iron I am a stickler a
stickler for it's not doing things just
because somebody say okay we really need
to know why we're doing it alright so
let's stop doing things blindly so in
this video I'm going to talk about how
my notes right here let me talk about
checking your iron why we need iron
types of iron the cost of are you the
best type of iron I'm going to talk
about cheap ways and benefits and just
little things that your girl get to keep
my iron up because as you guys know my
arm went from like 11 to 14 okay I'm
gonna talk about iron poisoning and iron
overload
Yago we're not trying to die okay I also
undo some post-op tips and facts alright
so let's get right into the video
Oh first things first - what an arm
basically is okay
iron hemoglobin when you get a CBC we
get a blood panel done you're looking
for the emo the hemoglobin level okay
it's gonna range from like eleven to
fifteen and we have a cycle we can
sometimes drop you know all that stuff
you know so but it's basically it's
basically a measurement of how much
oxygen is going throughout your body now
why is that important I'll tell you it's
important because you haven't surgery
and we need our own to be high so that
way one we don't have tissue did so
without the oxygen you can tissue get
tissue bit and we don't know that
another reason some surgeons put in mats
on what you can have done depending on
your level so if you want to have two
procedures done then they want you to
start your ironing to be around twelve
three procedures around thirteen anymore
up to fifteen so that's another reason
why we want our iron to behind the next
thing on my thing checking your honor
like I said you can have your PCP check
it but you need to get a baseline okay
but baseline what a baseline is that's
where your special starting point so we
don't want to be doing a whole bunch of
stuff if we don't have to if you're
honest to fifteen you don't even do all
this but say your iron is eleven then
you need to do some of these things okay
consult with your doctor I'm not a
doctor coming there's so get your
baseline so you know what you're
starting out in it
alright and then that way if these are
not progressing if it's not working then
you can just move on to something else
I'm so also you can have it done
like a LabCorp so say is you want to
kind of way out is it cheaper for you to
have your iron check at your PCP and pay
a copay or is it cheaper for you to go
to let poor and heavy chain don't work
so those options you can also do like
your girl did I bought a machine you can
check on Amazon and eBay for a
hemoglobin machine where you prick your
finger it'll read your results and
they're pretty accurate next thing I
want you know not all iron is equal like
we'll do all this stuff we don't even
realize that it's not all the same okay
and we need to know why we're doing
things and I'm just doing it because
everybody the surgery page is doing it
or whatever so and not just surgery this
is also geared to people that have iron
deficiencies and different things like
that alright so you have two types of
iron you have heme and non-heme heme is
from meats in animals okay
so if you're vegetarian of course you're
not going to be filled with all that and
vegan but it is an increase in
absorption now he I always get a flip
heme iron 7 to 35% of it can be absorbed
okay and there's no point of taking a
whole bunch out if we don't know the
absorption rate but think about this
heme iron from animals increases your
colon cancer in increased constipation
and after surgery you're not trying to
be constipated okay but there's an
option called none heme money and iron
the absorption rate is up to 20% so it's
really good
and it increases your overall Hill so
none M comes from dark green leafy
vegetables
it comes from seeds because from
different fruit and it's awesome so it
increases your you know it increases the
the way it decreases your chance of
being constipated so I personally would
say let's go with none heme iron okay
now I want to talk about the cost in the
top irons that a lot of people use I
tried them all and I'm gonna tell you
which ones are my favorite as we go
along one is called Florida so I
misspelled it for you
else LLL our ad is Florida is about $20
it is amazing is awesome for people that
are a vegan vegetarian they don't want
all these crazy additives and things in
there and it's easily absorbed and it
don't constipation and it tastes good
like I loved it all right that's a
really good one
it's also kosher for people that are
concerned about that the next one is
called blackstrap molasses and when
spelling-bee ill ack str8 p molasses was
about five bucks okay it's also a liquid
for people that don't want peels and
it's really thick it's not sweet at all
it has zero unrefined sugars but that's
just you know the name because of how it
how its processed Blanche I bless this
is awesome y'all it has all it has like
it's a superfood so it has so many
vitamins and nutrients
I'm urine magnesium vitamin B the list
goes on no because it's a superfood it's
only five books and it's something I
recommend even after surgery and I took
it for a couple weeks after surgery the
other one this is not natural and it's
disgusting it's about it's called SSS
tonic it's about eight to ten dollars it
is disgusting I don't know how many
times
so how many ways I'm saying oh nasty but
he's very popular that's all I gotta say
about it a lot of people don't like that
because it's got alcohol in it and it's
disgusting a lot of Surgeons kind of
like you know the debate is out there on
it whether it's okay to take I'm
personally I took it but I stopped it
after that one body was gone because it
was just nasty and I don't know what I
did with other boxes I bought a pack of
three okay moving on
now this one is natural it's called mega
food blood builder mega MGP a food blood
builder
it's about 16 dollars for a six month
another six months for a 60 day supplier
too much supply its appeal so for the
people that don't want liquid and all
that hassle of measuring and not accept
and it's it's all-natural it's really
good I liked it it didn't it didn't
constipate me I've hurt my stomach for
me a little bit the SSS ton it it hurt
my stomach a little bit so I would just
probably just an arrow beside caution
with that another one is called by Val
vitamin vitamin C I don't know why I
wanna be thinking like Star Wars are
called Val Tron C but you can get it at
CVS and for like a 60 day supply it's
about $16 now why am I talking about
vitamin C now this one has vitamin C and
iron you need vitamin C and iron
together okay and you need it together
because they help each other absorb
their friends their best friends they
love each other so the vitamin C and
iron go hand-in-hand and it increases
the chance of absorption so if you're
doing this 19 because I recommend
I earned from healthy dark green leafy
vegetables like the mega blood builder
the flora decks all those things you
need the vitamin C to kind of help it
move along and bind and absorbing your
body okay now this is what your girl did
it this is a secret because y'all my
family okay so I like I tried all of it
but my favorites like I said was the
mega blood builder and the Florida those
are my babies
now through right now you take it just
you know that one time or twice a day
but what did I do throughout the day
because I your girl was trying to
increase the iron okay so what I did I
mixed beet juice it was organic
I got organic beet juice and I mixed it
with vitamin C Jews because the Jews by
itself is next okay
but in wine beet juice beet juice is
very very high in iron so even though I
took my supplements I also wanted
something like the day that I drunk
throughout the day that helped me if
that made sense and mixing those two was
awesome cuz like i sounds able to get my
iron up from around 11:00 to around 14
yes
now that was what I did and I like I say
I recommend the getting a organic beet
juice because it tastes better because
it tastes less like dirt okay moving on
this is serious I haven't seen a video
on I haven't seen any videos on YouTube
about this y'all it's very serious in
its fatal so you can be planning for
surgery and you can be planning you know
maybe you just a me make
you want to get the iron up but it's not
worth damage to your body iron overload
and iron poisoning are very very very
serious topics okay so the first the
first is the it can range from diarrhea
stomach cramps and vomiting all the way
up to death so we don't need to be taken
tons of pills all day long in terms of
this and tons of that you really need to
follow the regiment of your doctor and
follow those four screws those pill
bottles and do it the natural way is the
best way okay you're not just taking a
whole gallon of this and five pills
three times a day and don't do that
because it could be damaging to your
body and there's no point of having this
awesome body or this awesome look if
you're not healthy on the inside okay
I'm gonna get off my tangent but please
okay yes moving on now the reason I say
it's important to get your baseline so
say you have your baseline you're 12 you
know like I said it range from 11 to
around 15 say you're at 12 and you're
doing all this stuff right and you go
back in two months and you're still
where you are it could be your food it
could be your intake coffee milk tea
sweet potatoes walnuts and the list goes
on and on
okay but the main tune you know we like
our sweet tea in our coffee a lot of
this so in milk with cereal stay away
from it
okay you shouldn't have the milkshake at
McDonald's you shouldn't have the sweet
tea and I let us meet together good a
new Lotus lychee do
they are a little easy but it kills it
kills your your on absorption so you're
basically wasting your money and we're
not wasting our money and this w I just
told you the cost of it so we don't
waste my money okay we're not doing it
now this was the fact that I saw and I
gotta tell you all this it's this one
cup of coffee can limit up to sixty
percent of your iron absorption one cup
of coffee
so that means all these $20 and $30
whatever you spend on it's going down
the toilet so if your iron isn't it's 11
or 12 and you go back later and it's
still at the same point and you know
you're doing all this other stuff you're
wasting your time energy and money
moving on all right
other tips that won't talk about it is I
want to remind you artificial iron
increases your constipation and we're
not trying to be constipated okay then
we if you do get constipated because
some people just have a sensitive
digestive system I have a video on how
to sit on the toilet yeah I do that okay
so I recommend sitting on the toilet
backwards having a pillow or towel or
something to lean over on especially if
you having a tummy tuck because it would
really really help you kind of get
things moving because you might be
sitting there for a long time because
you know you're on pain pills
if you
a surgery or something like that and it
will pain pills make you more
constipated you're taking all this iron
it can make you constipated especially
if you choose some of these none natural
ways of getting your iron and it's just
gonna be a time for you another thing a
stool softener colace co l HC e co lace
it's a nice stool softener and another
thing i recommend drinking smoothies
vegetable fruit smoothies to kind of
help get these going it's healthier for
you it's filling for you and it will
help you with your bowel movements
another thing wall it's easier it is
good for your recovery and it increases
your your blood flow throughout those
areas that you just had surgery on and
it helps get things moving because you
know like i said once again the iron
pills and the pain pills can constipate
you so i really just want to take this
time to explain if you've seen any of my
videos you're not just on right i'll go
get this go do that i like to tell you
why because we need to know why not just
because some random girl told you on
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