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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, we have another menopause episode. I'm excited to dig into this one.

In this episode, I'm going to be specifically talking

about five common mineral imbalances that I typically see during menopause. Or like perimenopause,

midlife women will say, I feel like that's like an easier category. And there's five of them.

It's excess calcium, low magnesium, low sodium, low potassium,

and excess iron. So that's why I said imbalances, because I'm like, if they're not all deficiencies,

they're just like, you know, we don't want minerals to be high or low. We want them to be right

in that perfect even middle. So these are the five common imbalances that I tend to see.

Last week, I talked about how to thrive during menopause.

So if you're just finding me now, and this topic is of interest to you,

make sure you listen to that episode too,

because that goes more into like the four

main areas that I really like to focus on for any woman that is either going through

menopause, postmenopause, or if you're trying to prepare, I get that question a lot. Like,

how can I prepare myself for a good transition through menopause? And thyroid health, which I talked about a ton,

optimizing your nutrition, looking at supporting your adrenals, looking at your stress,

how you're living in your day to day. And then I shared my three daily habits that if I

could have the majority of midlife women implement, those would be the three that they would do

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