New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- Shark Tank India fame and the Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Namita Thapar, opened up about her struggle with anaemia, a common condition resulting from a lack of red blood cells or haemoglobin. In a video, she was seen on her regular iron drip due to low ferritin levels.

In a conversation with Livemint, Dr Anirban Chattopadhyay, critical care specialist at CK Birla Hospitals, CMRI, explained what ferritin is and how it is linked to iron deficiency.

In simple words, ferritin is essentially the body's iron storage protein. While some iron circulates in the blood as part of haemoglobin, ferritin represents the stored iron reserve that the body draws upon when one falls short of iron.

These iron stores...