minerals, hydration, both are super important when we're thinking about foundational support for

detoxification, but hydration alone's not enough. Water is important for creating digestive juices,

bile flow, bowel movements, all of the things, but without minerals, our cells aren't hydrating

properly. Our nervous system can be dysregulated. Our detox pathways can be

affected. We can have slow with motility, certain minerals like sodium, potassium, magnesium,

these all play a role in all of those things. And so when somebody has low or disregulated

minerals, they can be more constipated. They can have less stress resiliency. They may not be

clearing things out as well. Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K,

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model that I call intuitive functional medicine, where we combine

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Hi, friends. So I recently did an episode on the five things that you need to know and consider

before starting a gut healing protocol. That was episode 393, released on January 13th. And in that episode, I really outlined how we teach clinicians to build a

successful protocol in F&A. By now, you know that I am not into template medicine. If that,

then this, we really have to think through the person. We have to think through the individual.

We have to think through how they're presenting to us. There's a lot of different things that

factor into it. So part of creating a solid protocol that's going to help somebody is assessing

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