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I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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All right. It is time for our mineral deep dive on zinc.

Another popular mineral, I would say zinc is like when I think of zinc, I feel like it's just

as popular as magnesium.

A lot of people are aware that zinc is an important nutrient for their health, but it is

often misunderstood and supplemented with blindly.

And I'll talk more about that in the episode. But I'm going to go through just

like all my other mineral deep dives. We'll talk about what zinc does in the body. I'm going to go

through the RDA and then how zinc impacts like different aspects of our health. So I'll talk about

gut health quite a bit. We'll go into digestion, our mucosal lining, especially like our stomach,

and then an immune system. And then I'll talk about hormones, specifically. There's some cool

stuff for male and female fertility, blood sugar, and then thyroid function. And in the bonus episode

for this week, I focus on how zinc interacts with other minerals like copper, how potassium magnesium calcium can

impact zinc.

And then I go through zinc supplements because it's probably the most common question I got

from Instagram when I put that question box up, people are like, how do you know when you

should supplement with zinc?

So I'm going to go through like, here's different scenarios where it may be appropriate.

Here's things you want to test for or consider if you do decide to supplement.

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