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

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.

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.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your healing journey. We hope you

enjoy it. All right. I have another deep dive episode for you this week. We are focusing on copper.

And we have an episode that I did with Emily, one of my nutritionists a while back on the connection between copper and iron.

And I definitely touched on the benefits of copper and different jobs that it does in that episode,

but not in huge detail since the main focus was just explaining how does copper impact our iron

status and how does iron impact our copper status, which is very important. But I do get a lot of

questions about copper on a regular basis. And it's one of those where I'm like,

this deserves its own podcast episode. I did an Instagram story and I asked for questions.

What questions did you guys have about copper? I don't even know how many questions I got on

the copper ID. I want to say at least like 30 or 40. So we're going to do that in a separate

episode. I was going to try to squeeze him in. But I don't want this to be like two hours long. So we're going to do that in a separate episode. I was going to try to

squeeze him in, but I don't want this to be like two hours long. So next week, we're going to

talk about the copper IUD. But this week, we're going to focus on copper. I'm going to go into

what copper does, but also like how does copper get out of balance in the body and what a

copper deficiency looks like and then what a copper deficiency looks like

and then also what copper excess looks like. I just don't like calling it copper toxicity.

I just feel like it's such a buzz phrase. And I don't know. It's more of an imbalance.

And I think when you, I'm going to go through all everything and I think you'll understand

like why I hesitate to say copper excess because it's not just the copper. I think when you, we, I'm going to go through all everything and I think you'll understand like

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