13: These Overlooked Minerals Can Improve Your Hormones, Fertility & Metabolism
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
5 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Some of your loudest hormone symptoms are actually mineral problems in disguise.
In this episode, I pick up our December mineral series and move from the foundation minerals into the tiny trace players that run the control panel. Minerals like copper, zinc, iron, manganese, chromium, selenium and boron act as cofactors for hormones, thyroid and blood sugar, and they can make or break energy, mood and cycles even when the basics look ok.
On paper, a lot of women are told everything looks “normal” while their bodies are clearly not ok. I get into what it feels like when minerals are out of balance, from emotional spikes and wired-tired nights to heavy, painful cycles and those nagging aches that never quite go away. Instead of chasing every new fix, I zoom out to show how your system compensates and what that reveals about where support actually needs to go.
This is part 2 of 3 of my Mineral Series. Tune into episodes 12 and 14 to deepen your knowledge.
You’ll Learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:32] Why trace minerals act like the body’s control panel even when macros look good
[03:36] The real reason copper makes symptoms worse when it isn’t bioavailable
[04:22] The overlooked signs your body isn’t tolerating a copper IUD
[11:11] How hair testing reveals hidden copper stored in tissues when blood looks normal
[12:53] What zinc really does for fertility and thyroid function beyond immunity
[13:48] Why zinc backfires when sodium is low and the surprising symptoms that follow
[19:19] The connection between gut health, iron overload, and “mystery” fatigue
[22:46] How manganese supports joints, blood sugar, and the nervous system in ways most women miss
[26:38] The thyroid-protective role of selenium and why depletion hits detox hard
[27:41] The way boron helps hormones communicate and why stress quietly drains it
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| 0:00.0 | The trace minerals are like running the control panels. So they fine-tune metabolism, hormone balance, |
| 0:05.6 | fertility, and things like blood sugar. Without them, even the strongest foundation is often not enough. |
| 0:11.4 | We want to think of them like the knobs and the dials of the body's control panel. |
| 0:15.0 | They don't build the system, but they do have a really big role in running it. |
| 0:18.6 | We've got copper, zinc, iron, manganese, chromium, selenium, |
| 0:22.7 | and boron. These trace minerals are small in quantity, but they are very mighty in their functions |
| 0:28.6 | in the body. We do pair H-GMAs on the men as well, and a lot of them will have semen analysis |
| 0:34.1 | that we can look at. We always see the connection between very low zinc levels, |
| 0:38.9 | often copper is out of balance, irons out of balance, and that directly reflects their semen analysis. |
| 0:44.6 | Iron's another one. We have too much. It's just as harmful as too little. Whenever I see people saying |
| 0:49.9 | that iron overload is not real, it was like a trend. I'm like, oh my gosh, you obviously don't work |
| 0:54.1 | with women. You want to know what your status is and understand how they work together so that |
| 0:58.6 | if you add anything in via a supplement or food, you're going to get the best results from it. |
| 1:09.5 | Welcome to the hormone healing RD podcast. We will get clear, practical guidance for your healing journey. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm Amanda Montalvo, women's health dietitian and mineral expert. After helping thousands of women and navigating my own healing, I know how overwhelming the wellness world can be. |
| 1:24.8 | And this show really aims to cut through the noise with simple research |
| 1:28.3 | and clinically backed insights on hormones, minerals, and what your body truly needs to heal. So let's |
| 1:35.0 | dig into episode two of our mineral series for December. In episode one, we talked about macro minerals. |
| 1:42.7 | So we got into calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and phosphorus, and how they really lay the groundwork for energy production, hormones, and metabolism. |
| 1:52.4 | But the body doesn't just need a foundation. It also needs fine tuning. And that's where the minerals that we're going to cover today come in. |
| 2:00.1 | So we've got copper, zinc, iron, manganese, chromium, selenium, and boron. And these trace minerals are small in quantity as far as like how much you need, but they are very, very mighty in their functions in the body. They control enzymes, hormone production, thyroid activity, and blood |
| 2:17.5 | sugar regulation, and honestly more. A lot of them do have many features. The way that I like to |
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