8 Gates of Iron Regulation

The Gates of Iron: A Live Teaching Call on How Iron Actually Moves Through Your Body

Iron gets absorbed, exported, transported, stored, and recycled, and each of those steps is a separate gate. Each gate has its own requirements and its own way of failing.

That’s why taking more iron doesn’t always work. If the problem is at the absorption gate, a supplement may help. If the problem is that iron is absorbed but can’t get out of the cell, or is stored but can’t be mobilized, more iron does nothing. Sometimes it makes things worse.

In this live call, I walk through each gate of iron metabolism, with the exact strategies to support each gate, what to look for, and what to do next:

• [Gate 1: Retina]: how light through your eyes sets the daily clock that hepcidin runs on, and why screens at night work against it

• [Gate 2: Cell Membrane]: why every door iron uses is built into the membrane, and what makes those doors stiff or damaged

• [Gate 3: Stomach Acid]: why iron needs acid to be absorbed, the labs that hint acid is low, and how thyroid fits in

• [Gate 4: Absorption]: what actually improves absorption, what doesn’t, and which labs tell you it’s time for a gut test

• [Gate 5: The Liver]: how the liver controls hepcidin, the exit door for iron, and why bile, estrogen, histamine, and inflammation can shut it

• [Gate 6: Minerals]: the copper connection most iron protocols ignore, and why zinc and vitamin C can help or hurt

• [Gate 7: Utilization]: why iron that reaches your cells can still fail to make energy, and why adding more when energy is low backfires

• [Gate 8: Recycling]: where most of your daily iron actually comes from, and how stress and old predictions keep it locked away

For each gate, you’ll learn what it needs, where people commonly get stuck, what that tends to look like on labs, and which interventions fit which gate, and when.

What you get:

• One live teaching call on November 6th at 10:00 CST, with the replay included

• A handout for each gate. These go well beyond my Iron & Mineral Cheat Sheet: they’re the working version you’ll come back to.

• Live Q&A to follow

This is for you if you’ve been handed “low iron,” “high ferritin,” or “your labs are normal” and want to understand the mechanism instead of guessing at the next supplement.

Early Registration $99 (Price increases to $147 after October 27th)

This call is educational. It isn’t medical diagnosis or treatment.

Optional Add On

Iron Gates: Applied. Six Weeks of Support to Work Your Own Gates

The teaching call hands you the map. This add-on is where you get to use it with guidance.

I see so many people get stuck after learning the framework. They can understand the gates, but when they look at their own labs and symptoms and they can’t tell which gate is theirs, what to try first, or whether what they’re trying is working. This is the support for that part.

What’s included:

• Three live group calls, every other week for six weeks. NOVEMBER 20th, DECEMBER 4th, & DECEMBER 18th. Attend one, or all 3. These are working sessions, not open-ended discussion. Bring the gate you’re working, your labs, and what you’ve tried. We work through real cases, adjust what isn’t working, and sort out where people get hung up.

• One private 60-minute call with me, to use within three months of registration. We look at your labs and history together, identify which gates are involved, and build your next steps. Link to register your call will be sent after payment received.

To make the private call count: you’ll submit a recent iron panel (ferritin, serum iron, TIBC, transferrin saturation) plus a CBC before we meet, and a CRP if you have one. That way we spend the hour on interpretation, not intake.

This is for you if you want to move from “I understand iron” to “I know what’s happening in my body and what I’m doing about it.”

Seats are limited, because each one includes private time with me.

Choose the UPGRADE option at checkout for this additional service.