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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've got our final episode of season four. Can't believe it. I was going to end on the

Selenium episode. And then I was chatting with a few of my listeners also follow me on Instagram.

And they're like, you should do a recap episode. And one of my friends just did one for her podcast. And I kept kept hearing it and I was like, what would I talk about?

But I mean, I did cover a lot this season.

And what I thought would be fun is if I went through and just did some highlights from each episode.

So I'm going to, I'm going to mention like basically what the mineral does in the body, what the RDA is.

And then if there was like maybe a particularly

interesting topic for that mineral, I'll highlight that part. And then if you, you know,

maybe you haven't listened to all the episodes, you'll listen to some of the deep dives,

but you're like, you learn something and you're like, I want to dig more into that. I hope

it encourages you to listen to the full

deep dive episode because they're packed with a lot of information. So I started the season with

the mineral testing episode. And I dug into like why minerals are important, all that kind of

stuff first. So if you're unsure of why minerals are important, make sure you listen to that.

But I thought that I would just quickly run through the three different ways you can test your

mineral status. So the first one is blood work, right? That's the most commonly used and accepted

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