Welcome to the RU. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey.

I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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All right, we have another episode on the nervous system this week. Last week, I interviewed

nervous system expert Irene Lyon, who, I mean, I just

can't recommend an episode enough. I loved it. I was like trying not to freak out the whole time

interviewing her because I've, I mean, I've literally purchased her course. I've watched a million

of her YouTube videos. She's just, I think, a very, very important voice in that field.

And she's really great at making complicated information

easy to understand. So I'm hoping you listen to that episode get a lot out of it. Of course, I have

to follow it up with a mineral episode because, you know, with my background, I think of the nervous

system and I think of hair mineral testing because there's a nervous system ratio and how,

you know, not only can our nervous system impact our mineral status, but our mineral status

can also impact how our nervous system is functioning. So I thought it would be fun to do an

episode digging more into minerals. That's what we're going to talk about today. I do have,

I've covered all these minerals in deep dives before. So I'm going to link to all those in the show notes.

And then if you do want to see certain minerals I'm covering like the bonus episode, if you want to see like, okay, what does it look like to get enough of these in my diet?

What does it look like to see these on testing, whether that be like blood work or I cover hair mineral testing a lot in the

bonus episodes, then I would definitely check out patreon.com slash hormone healing RD. I'd love to have you.

You can get access to everything I've ever shared in the exclusive tier. And then I did a Q&A

with Irene last week, which was really good. So let's get into the episode really quick. As always,

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