Despite anemia being a pretty common condition, I still don’t think medicine has a good idea what causes anemia (putting aside the more obvious reasons such as chronic bleeding and dietary iron deficiency). In one of the KMUD interviews Peat opined that in his opinion true\u00a0 iron deficiency anemias were rare and the anemias characterized by low hemoglobin, low ferritin, low iron saturation index, etc. were instead tied to poor thyroid function (i.e. energetic deficiency). The study below corroborates that view by discovering that CoQ10 deficiency, a vital co-factor for proper functioning of the electron transport chain (ETC), reliably causes anemia and replenishing CoQ10 stores quickly reversed the anemia. This is further corroborated by various anecdotal reports and published case studies demonstrating that vitamin K (another electron-carrier-capable molecule similar to, but more effective than, CoQ10) is also effective as anemia treatment. Thus, once again we have a condition often diagnosed by doctors as idiopathic turn out to be nothing more but energetic deficiency in disguise.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/372\/6543\/716<\/a><\/p>\n