Iron & the Active Woman: Why You're Always Tired and It Might Not Be Your Training

At what point do you accept that you train hard enough to need proper support?In a world full of supplement stacks, diet trends and quick fixes — sometimes the answer is simpler than you think. And for a lot of the women I work with, that answer is iron.This episode is for the everyday athlete. The woman training four, five, six times a week who is doing everything right on paper and still running on empty. The woman whose GP told her her bloods were fine — but nobody ever checked her ferritin.In this episode we cover exactly why active women are at disproportionately higher risk of iron deficiency, the ferritin grey zone that your standard NHS blood test won't flag, and four specific reasons your iron demand as a training woman is higher than general population advice accounts for, including one that will genuinely surprise you.We also cover what food first actually looks like in practice, when supplementation makes sense and when it doesn't, and why buying iron tablets off Amazon without a blood test is not the move.This is part two of the micronutrients series, The Layer Beneath the Macros. If you haven't listened to episode one yet, start there.📩 Questions about your blood results or fuelling? DM me on Instagram @poppy.nfc