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  "id": 18251820,
  "title": "‘Ferritin face’: can you really diagnose low iron from a selfie? – podcast",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/ferritin-face-can-you-really-diagnose-low-iron-from-a-selfie-podcast",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-05T05:00:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/nov/05/ferritin-face-can-you-really-diagnose-low-iron-from-a-selfie-podcast"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Social media is awash with claims iron deficiency can be identified in the mirror by dark circles, breaking hair and dry skin. But is ‘ferritin face’ real? Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample why so many of us struggle to keep our iron levels up, how we can actually diagnose low iron and the best way to correct a deficiency, with help from Hal Drakesmith, a professor of iron biology at Oxford…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}