Welcome to the RU. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey.

I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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.

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All right, so we are continuing our foundation series. And last week, we talked about how to support detox naturally. The episode before

that, we talked about how to have good digestion, two very important things leading up to this

episode, where I really just want to dig into gut health and understanding our gut health. I think

there's a lot of trends, just like anything else.

You know, we talked about detox trends in the last episode. There's a lot of gut health trends.

I'm constantly getting questions about, like, should I do a parasite cleanse, like people

wanting to support their gut with certain supplements, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

But a lot of times I feel like we just don't have the full context

when it comes to what does it mean to support our gut health? Like what even makes up our gut

health? What can throw it out of balance? And then how can we kind of support it in our day

today? And digestion is a huge part of that. I'm going to reference that episode a few times,

along with like a lot of the episodes that we've done so far. Because you know me in this podcast,

I really like to build on episodes so that instead of saying the same thing every time,

I can get deeper into different topics. So we're going to dig into that today. The bonus episode

for this week in Patreon is all about using nutrition

and certain specific food strategies to support your gut health. And a lot of it kind of depends

in like your health history and stuff. So if you want access to that episode, make sure you

join me at patreon.com slash hormone healing RD, and you can get the bonus

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