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.

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.

You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes.

Welcome to season four of the Ari Menstrual podcast.

I'm excited to be back.

We took a little break for the holidays and so I can kind of regroup and figure out what are we going to focus on next season.

And I also made a Patreon, which you probably heard about in the introduction.

I'll talk about that in a bit.

But lots of exciting things coming this season.

We're really doing a deep dive on minerals. Today we're going to talk about different types of

mineral testing. Then we're going to do deep dives on seven different minerals, calcium, magnesium,

sodium, potassium, zinc, iron, and selenium. And that'll wrap up season four. But I'm excited.

We're going to learn a ton. I've been thinking about like, how can I make the podcast more

digestible? How can I provide more resources and support for the podcast listeners? And that's

really where the Patreon came in. I started it in February and I was just looking for a way like,

how can I connect with the people that listen to my podcast? When you know, when you do an Instagram

post, you get immediate feedback. You get questions from people. You get people liking it, not liking it.

And you're like, okay, cool. Like I can use this information with the podcast. I get feedback online.

But I mean, I have people that

leave reviews and, you know, reach out on my website and stuff that, like, they're not necessarily

on Instagram. So I wanted to connect with those people and just have a place where everyone

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