Welcome to the R.U. 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.

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All right, welcome to season five. So excited to be here. I am really excited to go back to the basics this season.

We did a whole season on mineral deep dives for season four, which was really fun.

And we got super nerdy.

I really enjoyed it.

I love hair testing and testing minerals in general.

And I just think there's so much that we can learn and benefit from.

One of the interesting things,

when we get into testing, it doesn't have to just be like mineral testing. It could be like

honestly any sort of like functional lab testing, blood work, whatever it might be, is that oftentimes

we get specific results. And if you're working with, you know, a good practitioner, then it often goes back to the foundations.

And so sometimes it can feel like, is lab testing necessary?

I would say, like, in certain cases, it can be helpful.

In certain cases, it's probably not going to change much.

For example, like, if someone doesn't have, you know, good foundational daily habits in place.

And so that's where I think just kind of going back to what does it mean to eat for your

hormone health.

I'm going to have an episode on how to support healthy stress hormone levels because, of

course, that has a huge impact on our hormones overall.

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