Marker guide: plant-based optimal ranges
Plant-based optimal ranges for blood markers — often tighter than a lab's statistical reference interval. For each marker: what it measures, why it matters on a plant-based diet, which units it appears in, and the research behind the range.
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Vitamin B12
Iron
Blood count
- Hemoglobin13–17 g/dL
- Mean corpuscular volume (MCV)82–98 fL
- Hematocrit (HCT)38–50 %
- Red blood cells (RBC)4.2–5.9 ×10¹²/L
- White blood cells (WBC)4.5–11 ×10⁹/L
- Platelets (PLT)170–400 ×10⁹/L
- Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH)28–33 pg
- Mean corpuscular Hb concentration (MCHC)33–36 g/dL
- Red cell distribution width (RDW)≤ 14.5 %