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.

In this episode, we are continuing the topic of mental health from our previous one where I talked to my mentor,

Brendan Behrmeier, on a more holistic approach to mental health versus what we're typically told in the conventional medicine space is the main issue when it comes to mental health problems,

just kind of keeping the whole person in mind. We talked a lot about neuroinflammation. So if any

of that interests you and you haven't listened yet, I definitely recommend checking it out. I thought that I would cover some minerals

and how they can specifically impact mental health. I also had a question about this in Patreon

not too long ago. So I was like, well, this is perfect. We're already on the topic. So I'm going to

talk about three specific minerals that can influence our mental health standards. too long ago. So I was like, well, this is perfect. We're already on the topic. So I'm going to talk

about three specific minerals that can influence our mental health status. And those are copper,

zinc, and iron. I have done deep dives on these minerals in the past. Like copper, the copper deep

dive, I think is from season three. And then last season,

season four, I covered zinc and iron very in depth. So I'm going to only be focusing on how

they impact our mental health status. If you're like, man, I really want to learn more about

these specific minerals, go back to previous seasons and put the mineral name and then deep dive,

and then you'll be able to find the episode that gets really into everything that those

minerals do and all that kind of stuff. I have also covered these already with bonus episodes

inside Patreon. So it goes through all their different functions, how to test for

these minerals, what high and low levels can mean on testing, supplementing with them, all those

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