The Atma Approach to Anemia

By Dr. Neela Sandal

Mainstream Medicine's Approach Is a Hemoglobin and an Iron Pill

Tired, pale, winded on a flight of stairs. Ferritin low? Ferrous sulfate until you're nauseated. B12 if they remember. "Women bleed." The reason you cannot keep iron, or cannot use it, is a one-line note.

Sound like your last doctor's appointment?

What Mainstream Medicine Misses

Anemia is a delivery failure. Blood loss, low intake, poor absorption, inflammation locking iron in storage, and marrow that will not make cells all look like the same number. An iron pill you cannot absorb is not a plan. Neither is ignoring the colon or the periods that wrote the deficit.

The Atma Approach looks at you as a unique person. Why can't your blood carry enough oxygen?

Has your doctor ever talked to you about these commonly missed root causes?

Commonly Missed Root Causes

•Heavy periods, GI blood loss, or a donation habit that outruns intake

•Low stomach acid, celiac, or post-bariatric absorption, so pills never become marrow fuel

•Inflammation and hepcidin locking iron in storage while the serum looks confusing

•B12, folate, and copper gaps that make a different kind of anemia look like "iron"

•Kidney disease and low EPO treated as a hemoglobin number only

•A diet with almost no heme iron and a lot of tea with meals

•A ferritin that was called "normal" at 18 in a person who cannot climb stairs

How Atma Clinic Can Help

We've helped hundreds of patients minimize — or entirely eliminate — their nauseating-iron-pill-only plan, and solve the underlying root problem.

At Atma, our Medical Doctors (MDs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) go through intensive training to become certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine. They're certified and ready to get to the root of your issue.

Anemia

Mainstream Medicine's Approach Is a Hemoglobin and an Iron Pill

What Mainstream Medicine Misses

How Atma Clinic Can Help

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