Mineral Testing
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
4.9 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to season 4 of the podcast! This season we are focusing on minerals. How to test them, what the different minerals do in our bodies, how they impact our hormones and overall health as well as other systems of the body.
We also have some exciting podcast updates. You heard me mention a podcast Patreon in the introduction. You may be thinking, what patreon? The AYM podcast patreon is new! I started it in February as a way to bring the podcast community together and provide more resources to support listeners on their healing journeys. You will still get your weekly episode of the podcast, but it will be a bit shorter (hopefully) and easier to digest.
Each week, patrons get a bonus episode of the podcast along with downloadable resources. For example, in this episode I’m focusing on how to test minerals and what different types of tests tell you. The bonus episode is a results review of a hair test and blood work to help bring all the principles of the episode together. The downloadable resource is a PDF of the main principles of mineral testing and lab testing resources.
When the podcast isn’t in season, I am creating content based off monthly surveys to ensure I’m giving members the resources they need. This tier is $10. I also have an exclusive tier that is $20 a month and allows you to submit a voicemail question that I answer during a pre-recorded Q&A. Visit patreon.com/hormonehealingrd to learn more and become a patron!
Links/Resources:
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hormonehealingrd
- Mineral Quiz: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/63fcdeb0284142001410c683
- Mineral Training: https://bit.ly/38BteSF
- Feminine Periodical (monthly newsletter): https://hormonehealingrd.ck.page/d0317056cd
- Iodine Podcast Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/iodine-the-miracle-mineral/id1568547321?i=1000560008653
- Metabolic Type Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/understanding-metabolic-type-on-an-htma/id1568547321?i=1000527836892
- Macro Minerals Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minerals-101/id1568547321?i=1000527073902
- Research Articles:
- The issue with blood labs:
- Serum magnesium example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20170394/
- Iodine Urine Testing: https://www.optimox.com/content/Iodine%20Research%20Resources/IOD17.pdf
- Optimal levels of iodine: http://www.medicinacomplementar.com.br/biblioteca/pdfs/Nutrientes/nu-0191.pdf
- All iodine research articles from Hakala Labs: https://www.hakalalabs.com/Research_ep_41.html
- HTMA Accuracy & Comparison to Blood:
- The issue with blood labs:
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:22.0 | You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome to season four of the Ari Menstrual podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm excited to be back. |
| 0:41.7 | 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. |
| 0:47.4 | And I also made a Patreon, which you probably heard about in the introduction. |
| 0:51.0 | I'll talk about that in a bit. |
| 0:52.2 | But lots of exciting things coming this season. |
| 0:55.5 | We're really doing a deep dive on minerals. Today we're going to talk about different types of |
| 1:00.4 | mineral testing. Then we're going to do deep dives on seven different minerals, calcium, magnesium, |
| 1:06.7 | sodium, potassium, zinc, iron, and selenium. And that'll wrap up season four. But I'm excited. |
| 1:13.7 | We're going to learn a ton. I've been thinking about like, how can I make the podcast more |
| 1:17.9 | digestible? How can I provide more resources and support for the podcast listeners? And that's |
| 1:23.3 | really where the Patreon came in. I started it in February and I was just looking for a way like, |
| 1:29.6 | how can I connect with the people that listen to my podcast? When you know, when you do an Instagram |
| 1:33.9 | post, you get immediate feedback. You get questions from people. You get people liking it, not liking it. |
| 1:38.8 | And you're like, okay, cool. Like I can use this information with the podcast. I get feedback online. |
| 1:43.4 | But I mean, I have people that |
| 1:45.5 | leave reviews and, you know, reach out on my website and stuff that, like, they're not necessarily |
| 1:49.8 | on Instagram. So I wanted to connect with those people and just have a place where everyone |
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