Your Red Blood Cell count (RBCc) is one of the most important markers for your immediate health.  It is also one most overlooked by your doctor, with some hospitals disregarding this information altogether.

Your RBCc is the ‘volume’ of blood that you actually have, or how many red blood cells you contain in your body, measured per litre of blood  – a micro litre or million/uL

Ranges vary from country to country but here is a general picture

• Women: 4.2 to 5.4 million/uL
• Men: 4.7 to 6.1 million/uL
• Children: 4.6 to 4.8 million/uL

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At 4.2 for a woman, this is really borderline low. Women really need to have a RBC that is a bit higher, from 4.5 – 5 to be normal.

As you go down underneath 4, then real pain and problems start to begin and you are not producing as much blood as your body requires, and / OR your blood is rapidly depleting due to over acidity.  Then we are getting into the range of serious debilitating conditions, symptoms and diseases.

It’s also true if the RBCc goes above the desired range, and this is called Polycythemia

What to do with a low blood count – build up your blood

The best way to build up your red blood cell count is by giving yourself generous amounts of blood building resources. These are green drinks (powders, vegetable juices and smoothies), salads, raw veges (or lightly steamed), oils, alkaline/ionised water and for a lot of people, proper supplementation that maintains the delicate alkaline design of the blood and body tissues.

When you use several green smoothies a day, and several litres of green/alkalised water, you are creating strong blood building capacity.  You can easily turn your RBCc around quickly when you are taking in more appropriate nutritional resources.

What the blood looks like when the RBCc is strong

Full Red Blood Cell count

What the blood looks like when the RBCc is low

Lowered Red Blood Cell Count

You can see where the white puddles occur that there is blood missing.  When a majority of the layers of the dry blood sample are like this, then you know that the red blood cell count is much lower than it should be, and building blood really ought be the priority.

Building blood does take time but usually the body responds immediately with its new resources and will happily oblige. With a RBCc that is down to 2.5 – 3, this can take a few years of focused blood building to raise to a higher level where a debilitation or a cancer has been in place.

If you are on medication, there are several considerations to take into account before engaging in a more alkaline regime.  You can read about it in the eBook Alkalizing and Medication.