Doctors lazily go by the numbers. My own doc just gave me iron to take because I have a condition and I live with lower iron counts than normal. After all these 60 years my body has adapted.

She is a new doc for me through the VA. I have a condition she knows about. Very rare and she isn't fully up on it. Most doctors barely know about it. But iron will trigger the reaction which causes my body to make hydrochloric acid and not be able to neutralize it properly in my blood.

Whole thing easily controlled by alkaline diet. My wife a medical scientist figured it out about 30 years ago amd I've rarely had issues since. Doc went by the lab numbers and didn't think about my condition. Thats why docs are dangerous.