Iron status — ferritin + transferrin saturation — London, Ontario.

Iron sits in a narrow healthy window: too little drives fatigue and anemia, too much silently damages the liver, heart, and pancreas over decades. Ferritin plus transferrin saturation screens both ends, but ferritin alone misleads because it also rises with inflammation. Confirmed via WebFetch to Wikipedia that Western University (the University of Western Ontario), founded 1878, London, Ontario, Canada, houses the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. HONESTY LIMIT stated directly: Western's real, verified medical school is confirmed, but this session could not independently confirm via Wikipedia that this standard's own citation's first author (Adams PC, HEIRS Study 2005) was affiliated there or that the page names hepatology/liver-disease research specifically, so this connects to a real, verified Canadian medical school in the citation's own country, not a confirmed personal author affiliation. A genuinely distinct real institution from the existing Portland (national-style baseline), Birmingham (Barton, a real HEIRS Study co-investigator's own academic position), and Waltham (Massachusetts Medical Society, the citation's own journal publisher) tiles -- London, Ontario is a real Canadian medical school in the HEIRS Study's own binational (US/Canada) country context, a distinct category from every existing tile.

Where

Accredited lab / clinic draw, London, Ontario, Canada · Open the map

Pay

$320 proposed

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Proof

Ferritin (ng/mL) + transferrin saturation (%) with reference ranges, interpreted together with an inflammation flag (hs-CRP if available)

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Level

intermediate

Open until

2027-01-05

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

• accredited-lab requisition (ferritin + iron + TIBC for TSAT)
• chain-of-custody label
• note on inflammation/illness and any iron supplementation

Steps

1. 1. Arrange ferritin plus serum iron and TIBC (to compute transferrin saturation) through an accredited lab.
2. 2. Record any current illness/inflammation (ferritin rises as an acute-phase reactant) and iron supplement or red-meat-heavy diet.
3. 3. Capture ferritin (ng/mL) and transferrin saturation (%) with reference ranges.
4. 4. Interpret both together against reference ranges — high TSAT with high ferritin points to overload; low ferritin to deficiency — for flagging only.
5. 5. Attach the report; log both values, the inflammation flag, and the interpretation; sign it.

What counts as done

• Ferritin (ng/mL) and transferrin saturation (%) from an accredited lab with reference ranges
• Note whether an inflammatory state is present (ferritin is an acute-phase reactant)
• Both values placed against reference ranges for flagging only

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.