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Are You Menstrual?

All About The Copper IUD

Are You Menstrual?

Amanda Montalvo

Nutrition, Are You Menstrual?, Alternative Health, Period Podcast, Education, Women's Health, Sexuality, Amanda Montalvo, Menstrual Podcast, Health & Fitness

5831 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I am breaking down how the copper IUD works and how it impacts different aspects of our health. When I posted a question box for this episode in my stories a couple weeks back I got a lot of questions about how the copper IUD can impact the thyroid, hormones, if it can cause copper toxicity, and more so I’ll be covering all of that too! As always, this podcast is for informational purposes only. Please make sure you talk with your medical provider about what’s best for y...

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

0:05.6

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.

0:12.9

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.

0:20.9

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your

0:24.8

healing journey. We hope you enjoy it.

0:36.8

All right, we have our copper IUD episode. I'm excited for this one coming off of our

0:41.6

copper deep dive that I did last week, where I went very deep into copper, its benefits, what it does

0:48.6

in the body, how it functions, and then how it can get out of balance and what this can look like,

0:53.4

how it can impact our bodies, and then how we can start out of balance and what this can look like, how it can impact our bodies,

0:55.1

and then how we can start to improve imbalances. And a lot of people call it copper toxicity.

1:00.8

I think that that is a very extreme case and most people do not fall into that area. So I just

1:05.8

kind of went through the gray area and just how to understand copper because we just live

1:10.3

in a world that is very polarizing

1:12.1

with social media. People like to make polarizing content. I get it. You get much more

1:16.3

engagement. Your account grows faster. I understand that. But it doesn't actually help people on

1:21.7

their healing journeys, which is what I'm here to do. So if you want to learn more about copper,

1:25.7

I have a link to that episode in the show notes. I'm going to reference it quite a bit. So if you want to learn more about copper, I have linked to that episode. And the show notes,

1:28.4

I'm going to reference it quite a bit. So if you haven't listened yet and you're like, I don't know

1:31.7

what she's talking about, then I would give it a listen if you can, if you care. But today I'm going to

1:37.7

talk about the copper IUD. I was originally going to do in one episode, but that episode was already over an hour. So I did a separate one,

1:45.8

mainly because when I did a question box on Instagram asking you guys, what questions do you

1:51.0

have about copper and the copper IUD since I was going to do them together, I could not even

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