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

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All right. We have a mineral deep dive episode on boron, which I'm excited for. I feel like people, I mean, some people know about boron, but I think it's a very under recognized mineral. I did a mineral deep dive on iodine at the end of season two. And it's one of my

most popular episodes. So I was like, I'll do another one. And then something that just kind of

kept coming up. I got a lot of questions on like male fertility, men's health. And I do plan to

have an expert on in the future. But when I think of men's health,

I think of boron. So I was like, you know, I'll do a deep dive on boron, haven't talked about it much.

And I feel like it's one that can help people in multiple ways. And a lot of that is like one with

like our hormones. We'll talk about how it can support testosterone in men

and women and then also estrogen and postmenopausal women it also increases the half life of

vitamin d so it can help us metabolize vitamin d better and use it better it's great for inflammation

it's good for yeast Like there are so many benefits

with boron. And that's why this episode is titled, Nothing Boring About Boron. That's actually the

title of a research article too. That's why I thought of it. And I was like, I'm pretty sure I

didn't make that up. And it turns out I did not. It was one of the research articles that I read. And I'm going to mention a lot of studies in this episode. You can find them all in the show notes. So I organize them by topic. And that's what I'll do for the mineral deep dives. I shared a lot with the iodine too. Just because it's, you know, when you're making lots of claims, I get it, you guys want to nerd out and check them.

I mean, it's an absurd amount.

But, I mean, there's a lot of research on boron, but we need more on the mechanisms.

Because now we don't really fully understand yet exactly how it works with hormones, but we just have seen like, you know,

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