- You may not be consuming enough iron rich foods such as red meat
- Internal bleeding: This is something you need to rule out or heavy menstrual bleeding: which may be due to a hormonal imbalance.
- You may have issues with your digestive tract that is not allowing you to properly absorb iron. Therefore you need to heal the gut.
- Low copper levels. Low copper levels can directly cause low iron because copper is essential for iron absorption, release from storage and incorporation into hemoglobin.