Flora- Iron Ferritin+ Plant-Based Supplement for Women - Non-Constipating, Highly Absorbable - Supports Vitality & Wellness - Vegan Iron Supplemen...

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Love this iron supplement, very hard to find a plant based nonheme iron supplement that doesn't have other vitamins mixed in with it. I don't know why there is so much criticism in these reviews about the sustained release capsules, I haven't noticed any problems with this and I don't even know how you would measure whether the sustained release is happening. However there is one big problem - the packaging. It's crazy. They package the capsules to protect them from the apocalypse. While this sounds great, if you're taking the pills everyday, you get tired of fighting to access each capsule. There box has several blisters with each capsule in its own compartment. Each blister is coated in a thick whiter paper. Underneath the thick white paper is a second coating of tin foil. Up to this day, I have not been able to find a way to open the paper and the tin foil by hand, they are so thick it's impossible. If you try to pop the capsule out of the blister like most people do in this case, the capsule will break because the paper and tin foil are so thick. So my only alternative is to cut each capsule out with a pair of scissors. After a few weeks of doing this each day when you want to take the pill, it gets tiring and you start wondering why the company hasn't fixed this annoyance.

Makes it easier to manage.

I've been taking Ferritin + for several months now and my levels have come up nicely. The capsules are flavor-free and easily swallowed. Ferritin + has helped me and I plan to continue taking the capsules daily.

I hope this review is helpful for others. I bought this iron supplement to bring my iron up as well as my ferritin. I started taking it and had a blood test exactly three weeks later. My iron total and iron % saturation came back into optimal range and my ferritin level at initial testing was at the low end at 8 and came up to 12 by testing at three weeks. Not optimal but I believe it will be on the next test. I was mindful to also include iron rich foods such as more spinach, etc. into my diet and things like vitamin C containing foods along with the iron containing foods to encourage iron absorption. I limited or avoided all iron absorption inhibiting foods as best I could during the three weeks prior to testing. I dont eat animal products such as beef as I have been vegetarian/pescatarian for most of my life. This is a plant based supplement and Im very grateful to the Lord to have found this product and that it works so well and so fast. I take one capsule each morning with a glass of lemon water on an empty stomach and wait an hour minimum before consuming anything else. No negative side effects at all for me. A true answer to prayer.