Anemia is often misdiagnosed as iron deficiency without considering copper status, with copper deficiency anemia potentially being the dominant form of anemia globally.

“Do you think there's a lot of iron deficiency that's misdiagnosed or should I say a lot of anemia that's misdiagnosed as iron deficiency without attention to Copper status then there's there's two principes labels for for anemia there's iron deficiency anemia which the World Health Organization I think the latest article is 2012 tells us it's the most prevalent nutrient deficiency on the planet there's more to the story so what I think the second form of anemia is called chronic disease anemia sometimes called uh uh chronic inflammation but CDA also stands for copper deficiency anemia and I think that's the dominant form of anemia on the planet”