@taylorloveshealth: low ferritin and nothing's working? the iron foods you're told to eat — spinach, lentils, beans, nuts, dark chocolate — are nickel hyperaccumulators. and nickel shuts down ferritin heavy chain-1, the protein that loads iron into storage. so iron spills into your liver instead of getting stored — meaning you can have tissue iron overload AND a low ferritin reading at the same time. then it loops. low iron ramps up DMT1, your gut's metal transporter — but it isn't selective, so it pulls nickel in alongside iron. more nickel, lower ferritin, repeat. and h. pylori, the reflux bug, can't survive without nickel — it steals your iron while harvesting the metal it needs to colonize you. the way i think about it: heme iron over plant iron, enough protein to clear it, zinc and iron never together. join OPUS at taylorloveshealth.org not medical advice, educational only. all love 🤍 #liverhealth #healthtok #lowferritin #hpylori #nickeltoxicity

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