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, we have our sodium deep dive episode.

We have covered calcium and magnesium so far.

This week we're doing sodium.

Potassium is next week.

And just like all the other mineral deep dives, I'm going to cover the different functions of sodium.

So like all the different things it does in the body.

I'm going to go

into how it impacts areas like digestion, thyroid health, blood sugar balance, all things that impact

our hormones. I will be going deep into a lot of myths around sodium and salt in general. And then also how

it impacts blood pressure and heart health, because when I did a question box on

Instagram, I cannot believe how many people ask questions about that. I guess with my population,

I thought it would be more related to hormones. But don't worry, we're going to talk about it.

A lot of questions about preeclampsia, too, which is high blood pressure in pregnancy or, you know,

borderline. So we'll talk about that. And yeah, a lot of a lot to cover how we regulate

sodium in the body, which is, I think, very important to grasp. And then finally, sodium and its

relationship to potassium. Because if there is one thing I want you to get from this episode,

it's that we can't just look at sodium and we can't just focus on sodium in the diet. We have to pay attention

to the sodium potassium ratio. So we'll talk a lot about that. I do have a bonus episode for

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