Hi everyone,

I have noticed more and more that lots of women are olive, especially the cool toned olives. It seems like a distorted amount, which made me wonder if its from being iron deficient, because women are also much more prone to that.

I went down a rabbit hole where I found out most doctors are not testing women's iron levels properly because hemoglobin and other blood markers only test if the iron deficiency is full blown anemia.

To test for iron deficiency, you have to check your Ferritin which if below 70 is iron deficiency ( though there are reasons to biew anything below 150 as sus). Below 30 its IRON DEPLETION.

Mine has consistently been around 25, with all the matching symptoms and because docs only look at hemoglobin its been undiagnosed, and the lab ranges see everything from 15 as fine.

Since cool olives are a mixture of blue and yellow, following Style Me Jenn(?), we are missing some red, which makes me think it could just be the flush of blood.

Also its easy to be iron deficient, just being a sweaty person or a heavy menstruator can be enough.