12: Top 5 Minerals Every Woman Must Check for a Healthy Body
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
5 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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You can feel exhausted, anxious, and inflamed and still be told your labs are normal.
In this episode, I'm kicking off a mineral series that pairs with the daily posts I'm sharing in December so I can give you the depth and context that I just can't squeeze into a single post. You will learn about the five macro minerals as the big players that run your electrical system, stress response, thyroid, blood sugar, and detox pathways, and why I always start with a straightforward hair test before worrying about smaller numbers.
What is really happening when these core minerals drift out of balance and you feel fatigued, anxious, constipated, bloated, unable to sleep well, or emotionally numb while your blood work keeps looking normal? Chronic stress, mold, gut and absorption issues, restrictive eating, big hormonal transitions, and even over filtered water can quietly drain these minerals long before anything shows up clearly on your standard labs. Your body has been compensating for years using every mineral trick it has to keep your blood looking stable, and the question is whether you'll help it move from survival back into actually feeling good.
You’ll Learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[02:49] What a cellular-level mineral test reveals long before blood work changes
[04:57] How calcium can steady your system or silently block hormonal signals
[05:51] The surprising ways low magnesium derails energy, mood, and digestion
[06:52] What sodium levels expose about your stress load and resilience
[18:52] How mold strips key minerals and creates the “four lows” pattern
[20:26] Why arsenic and other heavy metals rise when minerals crash
[32:40] What it really takes to move from mineral survival mode back to stability
Resources Mentioned:
Master Your Minerals Course | Website
Other Hormone Healing episodes to listen to:
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Copper deep dive | Episode
Iron deep dive Part 1 | Episode
Iron deep dive Part 2 | Episode
All about the Copper IUD | Episode
Selenium deep dive | Episode
Nothing boring about Boron | Episode
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Why are these five minerals so important? They truly influence every other mineral and nutrient in the body. |
| 0:06.1 | They're really the architects of your electrical system, stress response, thyroid, blood sugar, and detox pathways. |
| 0:12.1 | Just like an architect designs and oversees the construction of a building, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and phosphorus really design and oversee the entire structure and |
| 0:21.2 | function of the body. Our bodies are incredibly intelligent. They have all these cool compensations |
| 0:25.6 | that they do. When you have low mineral levels, very high load on the liver, the kidneys, |
| 0:31.1 | your detox organs, then you start to retain more heavy metals. And you have a hard time |
| 0:36.2 | getting rid of them. I've helped a lot of women through perimenopause and that transition. |
| 0:41.3 | The amount of progress I've seen just with supporting minerals, not even getting into the |
| 0:45.3 | conversation of HRT or anything, they completely get rid of their symptoms. |
| 0:49.3 | The good news is that we can restore mineral imbalances, and a lot of times it's not that difficult. You can't |
| 0:55.4 | work on your gut health without minerals, but you can work on your minerals without doing a stool |
| 1:00.7 | test and a whole gut protocol. Welcome to the hormone healing RD podcast. We will get clear practical guidance for your healing journey. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm Amanda Montalvo, women's health dietitian and mineral expert. After helping thousands of women |
| 1:19.0 | in navigating my own healing, I know how overwhelming the wellness world can be. And this show cuts |
| 1:24.6 | to the noise with simple research and clinical backed insights on hormones, |
| 1:28.3 | minerals, and what your body truly needs to heal. |
| 1:31.1 | So we're starting a new series. |
| 1:33.1 | I'm very excited for it. |
| 1:34.6 | It's really partnering with my, I'm doing 25 days of minerals on Instagram for December. |
| 1:41.1 | And of course, there's only so much I can sit in an Instagram post. So to get into more |
| 1:47.8 | detail and just to provide like more context, I'm going to do a little mineral series to help |
| 1:53.4 | you connect the dots when it comes to mineral imbalances. So this is part one. And we're starting |
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