Author: Amanda

Thyroid Health on an HTMA vs Blood Work

Concerned about your thyroid health, but confused by your labs? When it comes to thyroid health, it’s important to look at it from a few different angles. I like using your symptoms and metabolic markers (basal body temp or BBT), hair mineral testing, and blood work. Blood work is the traditional way to look at […]
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 How To Support Your Minerals

There are three main areas we want to focus on when starting the process of supporting your overall mineral status: Mineral Supportive Nutrition Mineral supportive nutrition is nutrition that takes into consideration eating enough, optimizing macronutrients for blood sugar, as well as prioritizing nutrient dense foods. What this looks like: If there were one mineral […]
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Period Pain & Gut Health

How Our Gut Health Can Drive Period Pain Period pain is your body communicating that something is out of balance. There can be a number of different root causes to period pain, a major one being poor gut health. According to Dr. Katharina Dalton, a British gynecologist and expert on PMS, there are two types […]
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Menopause Myths

While menopause symptoms can be annoying and can impact someone’s quality of life, we also have to dig deeper into what’s happening as a whole to women’s health as they enter into menopause. Women are going from producing a robust amount of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone to a slow decline in that as they reach […]
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Important Minerals To Consider For PCOS

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or PCOS is complex and most women with PCOS fall on a spectrum as far as what their root cause is. There are a few areas I explore for PCOS: ✅blood sugar balance and insulin resistance ✅stress response and adrenal function ✅gut health and inflammation I find hair tissue mineral analysis so […]
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6 Ways To Prepare For Postpartum

The way that we approach the postpartum period here in the US does women a huge disservice, in my opinion. It’s all about how fast we can “bounce back” and shed the baby weight, rejoin our communities, and prioritize the caring of others. Very rarely are we told by doctors or society at large to […]
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How To Build A Nourishing Smoothie

Smoothies can be a great way to nourish and hydrate yourself in the warmer months, especially when it’s so hot it can be hard to eat enough food for those who are spending a lot of time outside. Let’s break down how you can build your own nourishing smoothie. Please keep this information in context […]
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The Connection Between Endometriosis and Minerals

Katherine joined Master Your Minerals after doing a lot of work on her nutrition. She had been adding in more nutrient-dense foods and had seen improvements from doing that, but she was still struggling with endometriosis flares. After joining the course and getting her hair mineral test results, she could get a clear-cut picture of […]
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What Is Hypermobility?

Hypermobility is a connective tissue disorder characterized by joints that move beyond the typical range of motion, skin hyperextensibility (unusually stretchy skin), and tissue fragility. It can be benign for some but it can also be associated with pain, instability, and other health complications like mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and POTS. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) […]
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Ways To Support Cervical Mucus Production (for Optimal Fertility)

Did you know that healthy cervical mucus is one of the most critical factors for trying to conceive? Without it, getting pregnant becomes a LOT harder. (Sperm need a highway to your follicles!) But it’s not the only thing that matters. In fact, there are many factors that contribute to optimal fertility. Before you think […]
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