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Low Iron Stores are Still a Symptom
Steph LoweMay 5, 2021
Low Iron Stores are Still a Symptom
Low iron stores are the most common nutrient deficiency I treat in clinic. It’s particularly prevelant in women of reproductive age, and children. I’ll discuss children in a future post...
The Nutrition Hall of Shame
Steph LoweApril 26, 2021
The Nutrition Hall of Shame
I shared this on instagram last week and it sparked quite the conversation... I couldn’t stop at 10, so here are the top 12 myths of the last five decades...
Understanding Food Labels
Clinton BaileyMarch 30, 2021
Understanding Food Labels
So that your choices around packaged foods lead you as close to real food as possible, you need to be able to navigate a food label. Here are your three...
Why I Don’t Recommend Iron Infusions in Pregnancy
Clinton BaileyMarch 29, 2021
Why I Don’t Recommend Iron Infusions in Pregnancy
First things first: some people choose to have an iron infusion in pregnancy and that is their choice. This information is intended to empower you with the knowledge to make...
Understanding Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
Steph LoweFebruary 9, 2021
Understanding Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
We recently shared an article on the potential for mapping your gut microbiome, which is the home to bacteria that live within the large intestine. Today we dissect another condition associated with the...
Understanding Your Blood
Steph LoweJanuary 26, 2021
Understanding Your Blood
At The Natural Nutritionist we take both a holistic and preventative approach to health and undertake a range of functional tests in order to provide an accurate and definitive explanation...
Is Your Body Calling for a Metabolic Reset?
Steph LoweJanuary 12, 2021
Is Your Body Calling for a Metabolic Reset?
Christmas is a beautiful opportunity to see friends, family and have some fun. It also often coincides with less meal planning, less of your healthy staples and more of the...
5 Signs That You’re Metabolically Flexible
Steph LoweDecember 14, 2020
5 Signs That You’re Metabolically Flexible
To quote Sparks et al. 2009, metabolic flexibility is the capacity for skeletal muscle to acutely shift its reliance between lipids and glucose during fasting or in response to insulin, such as...
Have a Healthy Holiday
Steph LoweDecember 7, 2020
Have a Healthy Holiday
Every year we get older, wiser and a little less keen for the post-holiday rebound. So, of all the things I wish for you these holidays, one is that you...

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I am a true women’s health advocate and strongly believe our greatest assets are to understand our body, to use our symptoms to guide inquiry and to gain the knowledge and support required to create true health, not just the absence of disease.

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On 1 September 2026, the US FDA added a Boxed Warning, its highest safety alert, to ferric carboxymaltose (Ferinject) for symptomatic hypophosphataemia (dangerously low phosphate).
In short: this infusion can raise a hormone called FGF23, which tells your kidneys to dump phosphate.
Here’s the kicker. Low phosphate looks like low iron: fatigue, weakness, breathlessness, headaches. If you still feel flat after your infusion, the infusion may not have “failed.” Your phosphate may have crashed. In severe or prolonged cases, low phosphate can cause bone pain, muscle weakness, osteomalacia (soft bones) and fractures.
Everyone assumes I’m anti-infusion. I’m not. But true iron deficiency anaemia must be confirmed first. The right product chosen. The right dose determined. And every potential side effect discussed.
IV iron is brilliant when oral iron hasn’t worked or can’t be tolerated. But before you book one:
✔️ Ask which formulation you’re getting. Ferinject isn’t the only option, and ferric derisomaltose (Monofer) causes low phosphate far less often.
✔️ Ask for phosphate testing, especially if you’ve had a repeat infusion within 3 months.
✔️ Get FBE/CBC, CRP and full iron studies, never ferritin alone. 
✔️ And as always, figure out WHY you’re low in the first place.
Test, don’t guess 🔍
Comment IRON below and learn how to read your full iron studies like a pro.
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    Infusions aren’t the safety net you’ve been told t Infusions aren’t the safety net you’ve been told they are, and what your hepcidin does afterward is the part nobody explains.
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    Your iron protocol has a gap. It’s not the iron. Your iron protocol has a gap. It’s not the iron.
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    There’s a cofactor most iron protocols skip entire There’s a cofactor most iron protocols skip entirely.
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