David Robinson

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03/09/2026

If your ferritin is always low no matter how much iron-rich food you eat, this is what nobody has told you.

There are many causes of low iron such as heavy periods, nutritional deficiencies, chronic inflammation/hidden infections.

But one of the most common I see in clients is absorption issues due to low stomach acid, and almost nobody screens for it.

Here’s the pattern:

On bloodwork: low serum iron, low ferritin, but TIBC is high.

That combination means your body is actively searching for iron.

It isn’t being locked away by inflammation. It just isn’t getting through.

ALP is often low too. Low ALP can reflect zinc deficiency, and zinc is required for your parietal cells to produce stomach acid.

Other symptoms of low stomach acid could be that high-protein meals sit heavy, bloating an hour after eating, needing to rest after a steak etc..

If those line up, absorption is the problem, not necessarily your diet.

What I do about it:

👉Diluted apple cider vinegar 15 minutes before meals
👉Restore the raw materials for acid production — zinc L-carnosine, sea salt, B1, potassium
👉Lower systemic inflammation with ginger and black seed oil, since chronic inflammation suppresses acid directly
👉Anchor your circadian rhythm with morning sun and consistent meal timing
👉 Lactoferrin to support iron regulation while absorption comes back online

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02/09/2026

My client went from a ferritin of 5 to 143 in four months.

Iron deficiency is trickier than most people think.

Low iron stores can come from low intake, blood loss, poor absorption, or a combination.

Take iron without knowing which one you’re dealing with and you often end up nowhere.

So we started with comprehensive bloodwork, a full iron panel, and a detailed symptom questionnaire.

Her TIBC was high. That pointed toward inadequate intake of iron or copper, blood loss, or an absorption problem.

A GI map gave us the answer: H. pylori.

It was interfering with her ability to absorb iron and other nutrients.

That changed the whole approach.

Instead of just simply supplementing iron, this became a gut protocol, addressing the H. pylori, supporting the weakened areas of her physiology, and being deliberate about getting adequate iron and copper from food.

The supplement wasn’t the fix.

Finding out why she wasn’t absorbing was.

Comment GUT and I’ll send you the link to join my community, where I walk through how to rebuild iron stores and heal your gut.

02/09/2026

Did you know light can affect your gut?

Not a supplement. Light.

Your circadian rhythm, hormones, mitochondria, and the cells of your gut lining are all influenced by the wavelengths hitting your body.

Red and near-infrared are the ones I pay attention to.

👉It upregulates tight junction proteins (help with leaky gut)

👉It dampens inflammatory signalling through the NF-kB pathway.

👉It stimulates cytochrome C oxidase, which increases ATP production.

The cells lining your gut replace themselves every few days and need enormous energy to do it.

👉University of Sydney researchers found that shining red and near-infrared light on the abdomen shifted microbial diversity in mice.

The best way to get red and IR light is sunlight, specifically morning sunlight.

However, a great way to get a more therapeutic dose is to also supplement with a red light therapy panel.

Two things I look for in a selecting a good quality panel:

Low flicker and low EMF.

Many in the market fail both.

My brand of choice is EMR-TeK Inc.

They use the right wavelengths of light, low in flicker and non native EMF.

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01/09/2026

5 things I do every morning to heal my gut.

Your gut runs on a circadian rhythm.

Stomach acid, bile flow, motility, enzyme release all of it follows a clock.

Get the first hour right and you set the tone for the whole day.

Get it wrong and you’re fighting uphill by lunch.

1️⃣ Sunlight within 30 minutes of waking. Outside, sun in your eyes, skin exposed if you can.

This anchors your circadian rhythm and signals your gut to switch on acid, bile, and motility. Five minutes is enough.

2️⃣ Mineral water before anything else.

Warm water, a pinch of good sea salt, lemon or lime, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.

Hydrates at the cellular level and primes stomach acid.

3️⃣ Five to ten minutes of coherence breathing.

Inhale 5.5 seconds, exhale 5.5 seconds. Digestion only works in rest-and-digest. Skip this and you eat breakfast in fight-or-flight.

4️⃣ A pre-meal ritual.

Sit down. Look at your food. Smell it. Three slow breaths, then hum for 30 seconds.

This is the cephalic phase, it tells your body to produce the acid, bile, and enzymes it needs before the food arrives.

5️⃣ Breakfast within an hour of seeing the sun.

Pastured eggs, bone broth, slow-cooked meat, fermented vegetables.

This isn’t a supplement stack. It’s a rhythm.

That’s what your gut has been asking for the whole time.

Do it for 30 days and watch what happens.

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01/09/2026

Your gut lining is one cell thick.

That’s the entire barrier between what’s in your intestines and what’s in your bloodstream.

Stress, antibiotics, processed food, glyphosate etc.. can damage the tight junctions holding that barrier together.

When those junctions loosen, things that were meant to stay in your gut start leaking through.

Your immune system responds the way it should:

Inflammation.

The problem is that inflammation doesn’t stay local.

Those cytokines travel, and they can cross the blood-brain barrier. That’s part of why gut issues so often show up as brain fog, low mood, and anxiety rather than digestive symptoms.

Intestinal permeability is linked to a long list of chronic conditions for this reason.

What supports the lining:

👉 Removing the foods driving the response
👉 Proper hydration with minerals
👉 Glycine and proline, the raw materials for repair
👉 Saccharomyces boulardii
👉 Curcumin
👉 Aloe vera
👉 Zinc L-carnosine

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31/08/2026

I had candida overgrowth for years before I figured out why nothing was working.

I kept trying to kill it.

Antifungals, cleanses, restrictive diets. It always came back.

Candida is opportunistic. It takes hold when the terrain allows it. Killing it without changing the terrain just buys you a few weeks.

What actually worked:

👉Lowering inflammation
👉Rebuilding the gut lining
👉Correcting nutrient deficiencies
👉Restoring stomach acid
👉Getting bile moving
👉Circadian rhythm and mitochondrial function
👉Nervous system regulation
👉Real hydration, minerals included

Then, and only then, a targeted antimicrobial phase.

Order matters.

Most people start at the last step and wonder why they relapse.

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31/08/2026

My dog Coco was skinny and couldn’t put on weight.

Then I found a worm in her stool.

So I did what I’d do with any client, pulled her blood work, read it the same way I read a human’s, and built a protocol around her weak spots.

👉Nutrition: upped her calories with slow-cooked meats, organ meats, bone broth, fish, healthy fats (ghee, MCT), slow-cooked veggies and low-glycemic fruit.

👉Hydration: spring water and coconut water for electrolytes.

👉Inflammation + immune: ginger, curcumin, lactoferrin, milk thistle.

👉Gut lining: collagen peptides from and L-glutamine.

👉Parasites: black seed oil, a candida support blend, sweet wormwood.

Two months in, she purged the worms.

The weight came back.

She’s the healthiest she’s ever looked.

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30/08/2026

If you are dealing with an iron or B12 deficiency that won’t budge no matter what you do then you should test for H. pylori.

It colonizes the stomach and tanks stomach acid, the exact thing you need to absorb iron and B12.

Low acid also lets pathogens survive into the small intestine (SIBO), damages the stomach and duodenal lining, and is linked to thyroid autoimmunity.

It rarely shows up as one symptom. It shows up as a cluster.

Standard treatment is triple or quad antibiotic therapy.

But resistance is rising due to biofilms, PPI’s will likely make the problem worse which is why relapse is common.

Here’s a more natural approach:

👉NAC — biofilm disruptor, studied as an antibiotic adjunct
👉Mastic gum — most-studied botanical for H. pylori
👉Zinc L-carnosine — repairs the stomach lining
👉S. boulardii — cuts treatment side effects
👉Black seed oil, berberine— antimicrobial support

Killing it is half the work.

Restore acid, support bile flow, rebuild the lining, replace depleted minerals.

Skip that and you never fixed the terrain.

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29/08/2026

One nerve runs most of your digestion.

When it’s dysregulated, healing your gut gets very hard.

You can eat the perfect diet, take every supplement, and still be stuck.

Your body will not heal in fight-or-flight.

The nerve is the vagus which is the main line between your brain and your gut.

When it’s offline, digestion, immunity, sleep and mood all take the hit at once.

The good new is that vagal tone responds fast.

Most people notice a shift within 2-3 weeks of daily practice.

Practices to improve vagal tone:

👉 Cold water on face and neck, 30 seconds — triggers the diving reflex, drops you into parasympathetic

👉 Slow nasal breathing with a longer exhale than inhale. Alternate nostril work counts too

👉 Humming, singing, chanting or gargling as the vagus runs past your vocal cords

👉 Morning sunlight, consistent sleep and wake times, time outside

👉 EFT tapping

Save this. Do it daily.

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28/08/2026

Mold exposure is one of the most overlooked drivers of chronic illness.

Roughly half of buildings have a history of water damage and a subset of people react badly to what grows there.

Most never make the connection.

Signs that rarely get linked back to mold:

1️⃣ Fatigue that started in a specific building.

Your apartment. Your office. A house you moved into. There’s often a “started here” moment. Pay attention to when symptoms began.

2️⃣ Brain fog, anxiety, low mood.

Mycotoxins are neuroactive. For some people the mental symptoms show up before anything else does.

3️⃣ New histamine reactions.

Suddenly reacting to foods, scents, environments you used to tolerate.

4️⃣ Hormonal and thyroid disruption.

Chronic inflammation doesn’t stay in one system. Some “mystery” hormone cases trace back to an environmental exposure.

5️⃣ Infections that won’t fully clear.

Recurrent sinus issues, gut infections that keep coming back. Mold can create permissive terrain.

Multiple of these plus a history of water damage is worth investigating.

The work is layered:

👉Remove the exposure.
👉Support weakened areas oh physiology (gut, mitochondrial, liver, minerals etc..)
👉Bind the mycotoxins.
👉Support detox pathways.

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