DR. ANTHONY CHAFFEE: your ferritin will raise and will go up. So that can actually be a marker not of just high iron but of inflammation.

2:13.  The body has a really good reason to put iron into ferritin.  What do you think about that?

2:18.  Yes, the iron levels of ferritin levels there are different ways of testing iron, multiple different ways of testing iron and iron's binding capacity.  You know how you store because you can actually sequester iron in your bone marrow and things like that try to hide it away for different reasons.  And then have it bring it out and ferritin, of course, can change dramatically depending on what you're doing.  Ferritin is actually quite useful as an acute phase reactant meaning that if you have a lot of inflammation in your body like an infection or some sort of autoimmune issue or similar, that your ferritin will raise and will go up.  So that can actually be a marker not of just high iron but of inflammation.