Calcium Deep Dive

Are You Menstrual?

Amanda Montalvo

Nutrition, Are You Menstrual?, Alternative Health, Period Podcast, Education, Women's Health, Sexuality, Amanda Montalvo, Menstrual Podcast, Health & Fitness

5 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode, we are doing a mineral deep dive on calcium, a mineral that is mostly known for its impact on bone health, but has a huge impact on our thyroid, ability to balance our blood sugar, and how our nervous system functions as well. As always with these mineral deep dives, I will cover what calcium does in the body and what happens when we have high or low levels. I will also be covering lab testing for calcium via blood and hair mineral testing along with providing sample days of ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the R.U. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey.
0:07.9	I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.
0:13.2	If you enjoy this podcast and you want to keep learning, check out the podcast Patreon where I share a bonus episode with additional downloadable resources each week.
0:22.0	You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes.
0:32.5	Welcome to episode two of season four of the argumentstrel podcast. In this episode, I am digging
0:42.2	into calcium. We are doing a very deep dive. I feel like calcium is mostly known for bone health.
0:47.7	When I did a question box in my Instagram stories about like, what questions do you guys have
0:51.8	about calcium? It was almost to all bone health related. I was like, like wow it does a lot of other things in the body so we're going to get into
0:59.2	bone health but we're also going to talk about how it affects our thyroid mineral balance in general
1:04.2	how it impacts our ability to balance our blood sugar and even our nervous system and as always with
1:09.4	these deep dives i'm going to go through like what
1:11.0	it does in the body, what happens when we have higher, low levels, all that kind of stuff. I'm also
1:15.3	going to go into a lot more in the bonus episode from my Patreon members. We're going to dig into
1:20.6	calcium testing. I'm going to go through some examples of a calcium shell on a hair mineral
1:25.6	test and then what you can consider if that is the case for you
1:29.6	in your hair test, what causes it, how to break it down. And I'm also sharing some especially
1:36.0	helpful resources for Patreon members where I have examples of like how to get enough calcium
1:40.8	from food, both dairy and non-dairies sources and more.
1:45.2	So if you want access to those resources, you can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone
1:50.1	healing RD and become a patron.
1:53.0	Quick reminder before I get started, this episode is for informational purposes only.
1:57.9	I'm a dietitian, but I'm not your dietitian.
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