568: Your Quick Guide To Address Mineral Imbalances & Stabilize Your Hormones With Nina-Marie Rueda
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Minerals are the spark plugs of the body. They are essential for proper digestion, hormone function and clear thinking. If you don't have adequate minerals, you may struggle with fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, and more.
Nina-Marie Rueda, a naturopathic doctor who focuses on perinatal and pediatric health, offers today a quick guide for identifying and addressing mineral deficiencies.
She goes over the "four lows" – common issues that arise when our bodies are low on calcium, sodium, potassium or magnesium. She explains what specific foods can address these deficiencies, like bananas for magnesium and clams and coconut water for potassium. She shares the number one mineral that is not addressed well by most prenatal vitamins. And she even offers a medicinal herbal tea recipe that supports women in the perinatal stage and every stage.
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| 0:00.0 | When we have a stress response in the body, one of the first things to go is magnesium. |
| 0:04.3 | And there are so many potentials for a stress response. |
| 0:07.7 | It could be, you know, interpersonal relationships. |
| 0:10.8 | It could be, I'm eating something that doesn't sit well with me. |
| 0:14.8 | It could be I'm eating a ton of sugar or foods that have like processed sugar in them. That is going to steal magnesium from the body in order to process it well. |
| 0:25.9 | And so when we eat sugar that is found naturally in fruits and in foods, any whole food sources, it comes with the amount of magnesium necessary to best utilize that glucose. |
| 0:38.7 | And so knowing that we have a poor diet and so many different toxins, interpersonal issues, |
| 0:46.0 | overworking, not exercising, magnesium is just gone. |
| 0:49.9 | And then we have the added assault of less magnesium in our food. |
| 1:00.0 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions |
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| 1:17.6 | And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrata Gore. |
| 1:22.6 | Hey, Hilda here! The mineral that we burn up the most in times of stress. |
| 1:29.0 | The mineral that is key to help you absorb the hormones that your thyroid produces. |
| 1:34.4 | Dietary recommendations and even a tea that is highly recommended for perinatal support and actually for every woman. |
| 1:43.5 | This is episode 58, and our guest |
| 1:46.6 | today is Nina Marie Rueda. Nina is a traditionally trained naturopathic doctor, who focuses on |
| 1:54.0 | perinatal and pediatric health. Today, Nina Marie offers a quick guide addressing mineral imbalances in the body, especially |
| 2:03.5 | those that women may be going through that can lead to fatigue, anxiety, among other symptoms. |
| 2:10.9 | Minerals are actually the spark plugs of the body. |
| 2:13.3 | We need adequate doses of them to produce digestive juices for the absorption of food, to create |
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