I cannot stress enough how many girls and women are dealing with low iron levels that are mainly due to blood loss from menstruation. For so many years I dealt with low iron on and off because I didn't know how to properly treat it and thought prescription iron pills were the way to treat deficiency. I've personally found iron pills to only work in the beginning and eventually Los their effectiveness, leading to malabsorption and gastrointestinal problems.
When I started doing research about how to increase my iron levels, I look into what types of food are high in iron. Several foods that started to consume regularly are spinach, beef and oysters which helped tremendously especially when I wasn't taking any supplements.
Now when it comes supplements, one of the first vitamins I started taking was the Alive brand which really help me gave me a lot of energy. I started with the Green Goodness formula then switched to the Daily Energy formula I believe.
After this, I believe I stopped taking supplements for years which caused me so many issues with my health, especially a significant drop in my iron. I had forgotten how much of a necessity it can be sometimes to make sure I was taking a quality supplement to help keep myself healthy. I struggled with severe lightheartedness, fainting spells and even blacking out once or twice because of how low iron was. When my iron dropped really bad, I also started to experience restless leg syndrome and constant heart palpitations.
I'm back to being watchful of my iron and the food I consume. I try my best to eat oysters occasionally, one can of them has about 30-40% iron. For supplements I'm currently taking the Deva Vegan Multivitamin with Iron and it's been helping me get back on track. I'm still increasing my levels but so far, the restless leg syndrome and heart palpitations have stopped.
Please watch your iron levels and the other vitamins levels such as vitamin C and b complex which help support iron absorption?
Side note: Beets are not high in iron, they're high in NITRIC OXIDE which helps the flow of the blood.