You are almost certainly getting enough iron in your diet as a person who (presumably) doesn’t menstruate. If you are not feeling fatigued or dizzy on the regular, you almost certainly have enough iron. If you are worried, get a blood test, don’t just supplement willy-nilly.
I would recommend you do a food diary for 3 days and enter into chronometer or myfitnsespal. You are probably getting 10-15mg of iron a day and the RDI for adult men is 8mg. Yes, vegans get non-heme iron, but the iron in meat is something like 80% non-heme, so most people actually get a very small amount of heme iron, and diet tends to have no impact on iron intake.
I speak generally as I don’t know what your diet looks like: if you eat pizza pockets and ben & jerrys for every meal then you have bigger problems than your multivitamin.
I’m a vegan doing a nutrition degree (at an accredited university, not at one of those woo-woo online holistic centres). I also have low iron because I have dysmennorhea, which I assume you can’t suffer from.
Definitely take b12 and take D if you don’t get sun (you probably don’t). Make sure you are getting vegan D if that’s important to you, most D is not vegan. Also make sure the D is an appropriately high dose, not the very low doses that are in multivitamins.
You are almost certainly getting enough iron in your diet as a person who (presumably) doesn’t menstruate. If you are not feeling fatigued or dizzy on the regular, you almost certainly have enough iron. If you are worried, get a blood test, don’t just supplement willy-nilly.
I would recommend you do a food diary for 3 days and enter into chronometer or myfitnsespal. You are probably getting 10-15mg of iron a day and the RDI for adult men is 8mg. Yes, vegans get non-heme iron, but the iron in meat is something like 80% non-heme, so most people actually get a very small amount of heme iron, and diet tends to have no impact on iron intake.
I speak generally as I don’t know what your diet looks like: if you eat pizza pockets and ben & jerrys for every meal then you have bigger problems than your multivitamin.
I’m a vegan doing a nutrition degree (at an accredited university, not at one of those woo-woo online holistic centres). I also have low iron because I have dysmennorhea, which I assume you can’t suffer from.
Definitely take b12 and take D if you don’t get sun (you probably don’t). Make sure you are getting vegan D if that’s important to you, most D is not vegan. Also make sure the D is an appropriately high dose, not the very low doses that are in multivitamins.