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 Montalvo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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All right, we have our iodine series. I am kicking it off with an iodine basics episode where

I'm just going to be going through

like, what is iodine, how do we use in the body, how does it impact women's health? And then I'm

going to get more into how you can assess your iodine status at the end. Next week, I'm going to get

into how can we utilize iodine for support on the healing journey? So that's when I'm going to cover,

how do you know if iodine's a good fit for you? How do you properly supplement with iodine?

I'll talk about specific cases like pregnancy and breastfeeding, menopause, things like that.

I'll probably do some on prostate as well and kind of go through more of like long term. I've gotten a lot of questions when I asked my Patreon members, like, what do you guys want to know about iodine? One of the biggest things was like supplementation long term, what that looks like? How do you know if you're taking too much? All those kinds of things. How does your blood work shift over time? And then medication, like,

if you're taking thyroid meds, what does that look like when utilizing iodine? So all that will be

covered next week. We're going to kick it off and get into the kind of the basics around iodine.

I know I'm going to get questions about resources. I have the two, I'm going to mention two books

quickly, and then I have a lot of research articles linked

under the links and resources in the show notes. Sometimes I have so many links that we can't fit

it in my show notes, and it's only on my website on the blog post. But if you go to hormone

healingRD.com, click on podcast. That is where I specifically have a blog post that goes with each one and all the studies and

everything is in there. So they will definitely be in there if they're not in the show notes.

It probably just meant I had too much. Shocker. And then the two books I want to quickly

mention, I've learned so much about iodine from Dr. David Brownstein. He was really like the first

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