Managing iron levels through phlebotomy can decrease sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels.

“and for me that just means every week now I've started doing little micro phlebotomies of about 60 MLS you can hear that in the December podcast”

“so I remain on a predominantly red meat diet and I just use the phlebotomy as an adjunct for that”

“Most recently my LDL was 130 milligrams per deciliter that's the lowest it's been in a while and I attribute that to probably improved thyroid function as I've increased carbohydrates perhaps related to getting my iron sores down a little bit”

“my shpg has now also gone down to the lowest levels that I've had perhaps since I've been checking it in the last four to five years”

“as you can see my ferritin I'll show you the ferritin levels have gone down significantly with that process”

“but if I eat red meat every day for every meal which is basically my preferred source of protein my feritin will go to like 250 300. And so with that, I mean, that's not diagnosible hemocchromtosis, but my transferin sat saturation, which is another metric of sort of aidity for iron is is quite high. So I've chosen to do phbotoy just to keep the feritin low because I'd rather eat red meat than chicken.”