The dopamine iron connection that could be causing YOUR low drive.
Client case study.
The longer I’ve been in the game of health coaching, the more I’ve realized that even the smallest biochemical intricacies can cause imbalances that ripple through the entire human body, creating cascades that knock onto your personality and drive.
I noticed this recently when someone sent me their bloodwork.
They complained of poor drive and almost ADHD-like symptoms.
Where they once could concentrate and focus for hours, they could now barely manage ten minutes. They had gut irritation. A fogginess completely unlike their old default.
It wasn’t until I did a deep dive that I could begin to synthesize a hypothesis for what had actually occured.
And as I slowly dropped down into Wonderland, I realized I was looking at a nutrient absorption problem that started in the gut. But finished in the brain. As all do.
Their bloodwork showed what looked like an iron deficiency. But they ate a diet rich in iron. Their creatinine levels indicated high protein turnover. So I had no reason to question their intake.
Looking deeper, I saw they were allergic to gliadin — the protein in gluten.
That’s when the cascade clicked into place.
Here’s what was actually happening:
