How To Assess Stress On An HTMA
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
4.9 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I am covering how to use hair tissue mineral analysis or HTMA to assess your stress. This is one of the most valuable parts of the test, in my opinion. You get to understand what stage of stress you are in and why you may or may not be handling stress well. For most people, it is a big eye opener and something that can finally lead to confronting your stress and making lifestyle changes. If you are interested in how you can learn more about your thyroid from an HTMA, please listen to the previous episode where I covered this in detail.
As always, this episode is for informational purposes only. Please talk with your healthcare provider before making any changes.
This episode covers:
- The difference between high and low mineral levels
- Three stages of stress and how to identify them on an HTMA
- How sodium and magnesium levels are helpful for understanding your stress
- Two key ratios, and what a high or low ratio means on an HTMA
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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. |
| 0:22.4 | You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes. |
| 0:29.9 | In this episode, I am covering how to use hair tissue mineral analysis or H.J.MA to assess your |
| 0:37.3 | stress. |
| 0:38.5 | And this is, I talked about this in the previous episode. If you listen to the thyroid episode, |
| 0:42.9 | yay. I think it's so cool to use H.D.A. to give you a bigger picture of what's going on with thyroid. |
| 0:50.2 | But I talked about stress a lot. And I said, make sure you listen to the stress episode, if you have thyroid concerns. It's important for everyone, but especially that. And I love |
| 0:59.4 | it for assessing thyroid health. I think one of the most valuable parts of the H.T.MA is how we can |
| 1:06.3 | assess our stress. You can understand what stage of stress you're in and why you may or may not be |
| 1:11.9 | handling stress well. For most people, I would say it's a pretty big eye-opener and something |
| 1:17.2 | that can finally lead to confronting your stress and making lifestyle changes. I know I felt like |
| 1:23.2 | called out by my hair test, the first one I ever took, and many, many after that. |
| 1:29.8 | But it's, and that's a lot of times, like, why I'll do it. It's, I like seeing data. I'm |
| 1:35.0 | definitely one of those kind of people. As I've, you know, longer have gone on my healing journey, |
| 1:39.7 | I don't need to see it as much. I think that's just like a part of trusting your body. But I definitely, |
| 1:45.7 | it was really helpful for me in the beginning and seeing like, oh my gosh, you are in, your metabolism |
| 1:50.9 | is super slow. My copper was super high. Calcium was super high. I looked incredibly stressed, |
| 1:56.5 | but sluggish, which is exactly how I felt. So it was good to see. I've also had tests after that |
| 2:04.0 | that were like fast for super low minerals, very eye-opening things. And not that we need to have a test |
| 2:10.5 | to make changes, but I do think it can be helpful for a lot of people, especially for those that |
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