I was diagnosed with low ferritin (iron storage...all other iron levels are fine however) recently and they're raising very slowly after supplementation. I also drink a shit ton of coffee. Nearly a pot's worth of strong coffee every morning. I take the iron pill late afternoon or at night so the coffee should be out of my system by then.
Anyway, I had someone tell me that is the reason my ferritin was so low because "coffee depletes trace minerals." This sounds like bullshit to me but what does IST think. I wouldn't consider myself addicted to coffee as I have quit for a week or so multiple times in the past but I just really like it.
there might be some truth yea, everything has tradeoffs. exercise makes you sweat minerals too. Your diet is supposed to make up for it though.
>everything has tradeoffs
Except for raw carnivore diets
Fewer insulin spikes means you need to intake more electrolytes because your body doesn't hold on to them as strongly.
ask your doctor. it might sound crazy but they unironically are more educated than random morons online who suffer from dunning kruger
coffee and caffeinated drinks calm me down
You might have ADHD lad
meme disease
Probably a Monster / Red Bull funded myth
The coffee grounds have magnesium in them, even
Trace minerals are a meme regardless
If they were important enough to affect your health they would have been identified as vitamins some time in the last hundred years
They're called trace minerals because they're fricking useless and don't matter.
if you're reading this, drink a glass of water.
And chew your food completely before swallowing.
billions of people drink coffee every day of their lives and your'e the only homosexual twink who got low ferritin from it?
Yeah find something else to blame your shitty health on
>Implying all or even most coffee drinkers get their ferritin levels checked regularly
Actual moron spotted
Really though, I've had blood and iron levels checked for years now as part of my yearly bloodwork, and they've never checked my ferritin. Last summer when I saw a derm for some rapid hair loss I was undergoing. She had my thyroid, vit D and ferritin checked. Boom, I had low ferritin.
coffee decreases iron absorbtion and increases excretion of magnesium and calcium. caffeine pills almost certainly dont affect iron but still deplete calcium and magnesium.
Coffee supposedly depletes trace minerals, but really it just makes you piss more, it might exacerbate previous issues at most.
It sounds like a bunch of bullcrap any anyone who posts x/twitter posts of literal whos deserves cancer.
>so the coffee should be out of my system by then
The half life of caffeine should really be public knowledge at this point, considering it's so widely used.
Also I don't think your low iron levels are related in any way.
Thanks. Sleep and rest has never been an issue for me despite all the caffeine I consume...but I'll take a few days off anyway and see how I feel in the mornings.
I think there are better explanations for my low iron levels but I'm willing to entertain any theory at this point.
I drink caffeine constantly, felt like shit for a while. I started supplementing with Iron and feel human again. From personal experience, I think there's truth to it.
>I drink almost an entire pot of strong coffee daily, and the longest I've ever gone without coffee is about a week. I drink so much of the stuff that even I think it's too much, and it's starting to medically impact me.
>I definitely am not addicted tho lmao
Anon, I...
>Anyway, I had someone tell me that is the reason my ferritin was so low because "coffee depletes trace minerals."
Yeah that's bs, but coffee does disrupt iron absorption (I think ~50%). So should be mindful of this and time your meals around it/supplement it.
It’s a diuretic, I don’t think your piss is RO grade, free of minerals.
I just take a voost as a drink to replenish and have a glass of water for every cut of water. Voost has multivitamins and iron specific ones too.
Nigher you would have to be drinking coffee multiple times per day with all of your mineral containing meals for it to affect you if it were true. You're most likely drinking too much milk inhibiting your iron absorption due to calcium