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

If you enjoy this podcast and you want to keep learning, check out the podcast Patreon where I share a bonus episode with additional downloadable resources each week.

You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes.

This is our last mineral deep dive of season four. I can't believe it. I covered seven minerals over the last

eight episodes. The first episode was all about different types of ways to test your minerals.

And yeah, iron was a doozy. That's why it's like eight episodes for seven minerals. We had to do a

two-partner on that one. And I'm going to be wrapping up the mineral deep dives with a look at selenium,

a mineral that is not super well known. It's not like a macro mineral, so it's not a main mineral

that we'd want to focus on first. And I want to reiterate that because we're going to go through some

cool things with selenium in this episode. And I know everyone's going to want to run out and be like, oh, I'm going to get a

selenium supplement. I don't think it hurts to focus on selenium rich foods, but ideally we

want to focus on calcium, sodium, and potassium first. And then we can focus on other minerals like

iron, copper, selenium, things like that. So we're going to go through

everything we typically do for the deep dive. So I'm going to talk about what selenium does in the

body. I'm going to go through the recommended daily intake, how it impacts hormones, thyroid,

fertility, all that fun stuff. And then at the end, I'm going to do another rapid fire and answer

your questions that you

submitted to me on Instagram. If you want to learn more about the different mineral interactions,

and there's a lot of vitamin interactions with selenium too. Or if you want to hear me walk through,

I'm going to go through two case studies in the bonus episode. So one with a selenium deficiency

and one with access selenium. And then I have another sample day of eating to optimize minerals.

...