Paul Saladino· MD
but you can have anemia hiding in plain sight right when you look at CBC and you and you measure the red blood cell count which goes from about what 360 to about 580 and hemoglobin which is kind of like the fluid inside the red blood cell I know you know this but for people that don't you know there's a range of red blood cell there's a range of hemoglobin so you can be in the lower 10 percentile for red blood cells and your doctor's going to say you're you're you're fine you can be in the lower 10 percentile for hemoglobin doctor's going to say you're fine your blood's you know really thin your hematocrit's really really low and so what what's happening is your body is is poorly transporting oxygen