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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. In this episode, I want to talk about how to get started supporting your minerals.

I have so many episodes on minerals. I've done a lot of mineral deep dives, which are really fun. I love nerding out. I know a lot of you do too. I've done some cool case studies on hair testing and other labs. But I think that minerals have just gotten so popular now. And the more that I talk about

them, the more that other people talk about them, I just think there's so much being missed when it

comes to like, how do you really support your minerals? The most common question I get is when I talk

about how important minerals are, is, well, what supplement should I take?

Like, what's your favorite mineral supplement? It's usually like adding something in, which I don't

think is bad. I use supplements myself. We use them with our clients. I recommend them in

seven master minerals course. I am not against supplementation. I just think a lot of us are like running to doing testing,

taking supplements, sometimes not even testing just taking supplements. And it's not actually

going to move the needle for your health in the long run. And so today what I thought I would

talk about is more of how do our minerals get out of balance?

And then how can we support them on a foundational level? So like instead of continuing to

deplete them, how can we stop that depletion and start replenishing before we even do any testing

or supplementation? And the reason why I want to talk about this is

because this is what helps set your foundation. I'm always talking about you have to have a

solid foundation when it comes to the healing journey, whether you're going to work 101, go through

my course, go through someone else's course. You're going to get way more out of it if you have a good foundation

when it comes to your daily habits, how you live, how you eat, how you are in the world. And

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