Lactoferrin may not be good..big increase to serum Iron

so i did my blood tests about 45 days after starting with lactoferrin

The good news my serum ferritin which is the key measurement of iron stored up went from 60-55

and given my iron levels were I believe already creeping down, this may not have been related

to the lactoferritin  as the test before this , they had dropped from 88-60..whcih to me is an indication that my cadmium, lead uranium and aluminum are coming down as both can cause the body to retain iron

the Bigger issues though is my Serum Iron went from 113 (modestly high) to 158 which i quite high..

This is not good s my understanding is it represents unbound iron floating around your blood which you can have tests for TIBC (Total iron binding Content) and UIBC (Unbound Irin binding Content I believe)

I have been doing nothing else and the only time my Serum ferritin was this high was when i was supping iron too fast (my serum irron tanked to about 10 when i was dumping uranium-lead) and my body could not absorb it (Floradix iron supplement) properly into serum ferritin

so suggest NIXING the lactoferrin for this reason, i mean it may kill the virus's as i think it did, but if it provokes more free floating iron..not sure how these two competing thoughts can be both occurning

I mean I guess with a name lactoferrin..it does imply that this supplement does provide Iron..just goes to show you, all this research needs to be taken with a grain of salt 

Guess I am back on earl grey regular though as tea will reduce Iron absorption, especially with meals

 

Hi Brittany
yes thank you..could i get your thoughts on what i have written here as i am going back to life extension and ripping them..wish i knew how to blog..stupid drs and their supplement bunk

i am a little familiar with the iron conundrum as i have had slightly high iron due to what i believe is heavy metals (cadmium, lead, aluminum and uranium) are said to cause the body to retain iron

my iron levels have been improving-ie coming down over the last year which I attribute to lowered metals. Plus I am not a red meat eater per sec, mstly chicken,In August 2011, i dumped a very large amount of metals which as you can se lowered my serum ferritin, not terribly but for me pretty low

a few years ago, similiar thing happened and serum iron went to 8-10 i believe so i had to supplement with this liquid iron which is said to be the best, floradix, BUT i know from the blood-iron tests done back then, that you have to be very careful supplementing iron as the body does not process-metabloize it very well into the serum ferritin, leaving high levels of serum iron floating around which means you have unbound iron--low UIBC-Unbound Iron Binding Content, I believe it is..

so given that i do not eat red meat, have not been iron supplementing, i know this increase in serum iron was caused by the lactoferrin..anyway small potatoes, but still not good, likely set me back a montrh or 2 in gettting iron levels back down


its this free iron (serum ferritin) that is more available to feed bugs-microbes etc

may-11 aug-11 nov-11 jan-12 mar11-2012
Serum iron 194 150 140 113 158
serum ferritin 113 28 88 60 55

lactoferrin is said to a whey based protein supposedly having very good anti-microbial properties and as per this life extension article said to have actually very little effect on iron, if anything the implication is it will reduce it, which is BULL CRAP"

wikipedia info
"The protein was extracted from milk, contained iron and was structurally and chemically similar to serum transferrin. Therefore, it was named lactoferrin in 1961, though the name lactotransferrin was used in some earlier publications, and later studies demonstrated that the protein is not restricted to milk. Also in 1961, the antibacterial action of lactoferrin has been documented and associated with its ability to bind iron."

here is the life extension article which basically implies a very very good anti-microbial. there is a research based article on their site which shows some surprising and amazing results and more importantly, their claim in the second pargarph that it binds iron is a fraud to say the least..another urban myth which starts out on some internet posting (wikipedia) and then people take it as fact

http://www.lef.org/Vitamins-Supplements/Item00513/Lactoferrin-apolactoferrin-Caps.html
Lactoferrin, a minor fraction of whey, appears to have a wide variety of uses in biological systems and is considered a first line of immune defense in the human body. Though a natural component of cows’ and human mothers’ milk, lactoferrin is found throughout the human body.22,23


Published studies examining lactoferrin as a supplement and its beneficial effects on immunity have been quite promising.24-26 Lactoferrin helps maintain a proper level of “good” bacteria in the intestinal tract, while controlling the number of “bad” bacteria.27-30 Lactoferrin is also known to have an extremely high affinity to bind to iron.22-32

Studies show that apolactoferrin, the iron-depleted form of lactoferrin, has unique benefits and may be superior to lactoferrin for supplementation.33 Life Extension’s lactoferrin supplement and whey protein powders contain only the superior apolactoferrin form of this important whey isolate.