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. In this episode, we are going to give you a crash course in minerals.

And I know in our previous episode, we talked about creating a nourishing nutrition foundation.

And all that is very important, eating enough food, balancing your meals.

The next layer that you really want to begin to look at,

it's really your minerals. So whether that be the mineral content in the foods that you're eating,

but also your mineral levels in the body. So we're going to go through kind of the basic macro minerals in this episode, why minerals are so important, and then talk about hair mineral

testing. And when it comes to why we are so

obsessed with minerals, because we'll talk about that. I mean, we have like four episodes planned on

minerals. So we're not going to stop talking about these. And the main reason is because they really

are like spark plugs, right? Minerals are cofactors, which means that they kick off reactions. So without that

mineral, without that spark, you are not able to generate energy. And minerals are really

responsible for making energy, making hormones. That's why we focus on them so much in our

practice. And even if we just kind of consider one example like copper, the body uses copper and oxygen

to make ATP, which is our main energy source. So when we don't have enough copper or even

enough vitamin A, which we're going to have a whole episode on copper, then we are not able to

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