If you are tired and holding a ferritin result, three things are worth understanding before you act on it. Whether an inflammatory marker was measured alongside it, because without one a normal ferritin may not reflect your true stores. That your laboratory's lower limit is set to catch deficiency rather than to describe where you function best: the targets we work to at Calibre sit higher, at 60 µg/L and above in women and 100 µg/L and above in men. And that ferritin has to move by roughly 40% before a change is real, so a repeat test at the same laboratory tells you far more than a single reading.