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

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In this episode, I am breaking down how you can learn about your thyroid health on a hair tissue mineral analysis or

htm. Which is what I'm going to call it moving forward. So I'm sure you've heard me talk about

HTMLAs before. It is one of my favorite diagnostic tests to do with myself and clients and family

members. Pretty much everyone my family has done a hair test.

But it's a really great way to look at the thyroid. And I feel like this isn't quite talked about

enough with hair tissue mineral analysis. Of course, we want to look at things like our mineral

status, but our thyroid requires so many minerals to not only make thyroid hormone

and convert it, but to also help get that thyroid hormone inside the cell. And plus,

stress has a profound impact on how our body makes thyroid hormone and utilizes it as well.

So converts it, all the things. So there's quite a few different ways that we could like

look at a hair test and evaluate thyroid health. That's what I'm going to focus on in this episode.

In the next episode, I'm going to talk about how to assess your stress on an HTML, which is also

something that if you are interested in thyroid health, I would make sure you

also listen to that episode because I think it would be really helpful.

So the other thing is I did do a bonus episode for this that will come out on Thursday

inside my Patreon.

And it goes through all my favorite assessment tools for thyroid health.

So I'll cover all the hair test stuff in there. But it also talks about blood ranges, like the optimal ranges for thyroid, not just

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