Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your healing journey. We hope you enjoy it.

All right, we have a highly requested episode of the RU menstrual podcast today.

It is one that a lot of you asked for after I did my first pregnancy journey episode.

So when I did, I did a wrap up with the first and second trimester.

And I talked about different testing that I did.

And iodine testing and supplementation was a big part of that journey for me as

far as like conception goes, but also throughout pregnancy. I'm sure it will be postpartum as well.

I will keep you all updated when I do postpartum testing. Anyway, that's really, it was like the first

exposure for a lot of people to utilizing iodine. It's a very controversial mineral. Some people

tell you it will be terrible for you. And then other people love it in like super high doses.

I'm like somewhere in the middle, which is how I am with most things. I think if we can avoid extremes,

then we can attain really good health. A lot of you were like, what the heck, how do you take iodine?

You know, why are you taking it?

How do you know if you're deficient in it?

Then I got a ton of questions about iodine salt.

So we are going to talk about all those things, why I love iodine, why it's so important.

Signs of iodine deficiency.

We'll talk about iodine testing at the end and how you guys can

start digging into all that information. I do want to say that while I love iodine and I use it,

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