15: What Your Mineral Ratios Say About Your Health
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Normal blood work doesn't mean your minerals are actually working.
In this episode, I wrap up the 4 part mineral series by zeroing in on hair test ratios and why they often matter more than whether a single mineral looks high or low. These ratios reveal patterns in your metabolism, stress response, thyroid, adrenals, blood sugar and even mood, so you can see what your body is actually doing, not just what the first page of your hair test says.
Maybe you've stared at a hair test and had no idea what the numbers actually mean. This episode connects those ratios with the tired, anxious, bloated, cold and “hypothyroid” feelings that can show up even when your blood work looks fine. You’ll finally be able to make sense of the patterns without obsessing over every single number. These patterns hint at fast or slow metabolic types, burnout or overdrive in your adrenals, and trouble using your thyroid hormones even if you can still make them.
Once you see what your minerals are really doing together, it's hard to unsee what they're telling you about your body.
This is part 4 of 4 of my Mineral Series. Tune into episodes 12, 13 and 14 to deepen your knowledge.
You’ll Learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:07] What mineral ratios reveal that individual levels never show
[03:23] The thyroid ratio that explains symptoms even when labs look normal
[10:29] Why some women still feel hypothyroid despite “good” test results
[12:34] The mineral demands required to actually use thyroid hormone
[26:52] How copper imbalances hide and what the copper detox ratio uncovers
[27:55] Why molybdenum can help or overwhelm depending on timing
[29:42] When balancing macro minerals matters more than adding supplements
Resources Mentioned:
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| 0:00.0 | ratios are really how we're understanding the balance of your mineral status. |
| 0:04.5 | It's not just the individual mineral levels that we want to look at. |
| 0:07.6 | It's how they're interacting with each other. |
| 0:10.3 | That's what tells us what's going on in the different systems of your body. |
| 0:13.7 | We're going to go through the major ratios, and I'm going to get into what they tell us, |
| 0:19.9 | and then what it can mean if they're high or low. |
| 0:22.7 | You could have a normal calcium level on your hair test, |
| 0:26.3 | but if you look at the second page where you've got that little significant ratios chart, |
| 0:30.7 | if your calcium to potassium ratio is really high, |
| 0:34.4 | that blocks how your body uses thyroid hormone. |
| 0:37.5 | They don't work in isolation. |
| 0:39.2 | They're like a symphony. |
| 0:40.6 | So calcium could be the cello, magnesium can be the violin, |
| 0:44.4 | potassium can be the flute, and sodium can be the drums. |
| 0:47.8 | But if you only increase the volume of one of those, |
| 0:51.4 | maybe you only increase the violins. It's going to create chaos. |
| 1:01.2 | Welcome to the hormone healing RD podcast where you'll get clear, practical guidance for |
| 1:05.4 | your healing journey. I'm Amanda Montalvo, women's health dietitian and mineral expert. After |
| 1:10.4 | helping thousands of women and |
| 1:12.2 | navigating my own healing, I know how overwhelming the wellness world can be. This show cuts through |
| 1:18.3 | the noise with simple research and clinical-backed insights on hormones, minerals, and what your |
| 1:23.2 | body truly needs to heal. So let's get into our final episode of 2025 and also of our |
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