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Nutrients & iron

Ferritin

Your body’s iron stores, measured before they run low.

Laboratory range

Women

11–307ng/mL

Men

24–336ng/mL
Women
011307400 ng/mL
Men
024336400 ng/mL
Laboratory rangeOutside the range

Commonly used laboratory range — confirm with the lab.Ranges vary by method. No optimal band is shown — none narrower than the lab’s is widely agreed.

A protein that holds iron inside your cells. The small amount in your blood mirrors how full those stores are.

  • Storesnot the iron circulating right now
  • ~3months for low stores to rebuild
  • hs-CRPread alongside — inflammation raises ferritin

A laboratory range gives context, not a diagnosis.

Santé explains what a biomarker measures; it does not tell you what to take or do. Your clinician does.

In your account

One value is a snapshot. Three are a direction.

When Ferritin is in a panel you take, each result sits beside the last — so you see the direction, not just the day.

  1. 01202428 ng/mL
  2. 02202541 ng/mL
  3. 03202634 ng/mL
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Sample

Nutrients & iron

Ferritin

34 ng/mL

In range
1007550250282024412025342026

Inside the lab range at every draw, in its lower part.

Lab range11–307 ng/mL (women)
First panel28 ng/mL · 2024
Sample — not live data

Measure your Ferritin

Two ways to measure it.

In the membership, or in a single panel.

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Santé 360

88 biomarkers in one draw at our lab, once a year (home collection coming soon). Ferritin is one of the 88 biomarkers.

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Questions

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A protein that holds iron inside your cells. The small amount in your blood mirrors how full those stores are.

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