Category: Minerals

Why Magnesium Is Crucial For Menopause

Magnesium is an important mineral for all women, but low levels of magnesium is a common imbalance I see in midlife women. This typically goes hand in hand with high calcium since a magnesium deficiency can lead to more calcium loss. Calcium loss leads to bone health issues but can also slow down your metabolism […]
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Minerals & The Nervous System

One of the first things I think of when I think of evaluating our nervous system is of course, hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA). On an HTMA, there is a significant ratio called the nervous system ratio, which consists of calcium and phosphorus. Calcium is controlled by the parasympathetic branch of our autonomic nervous system. […]
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How Zinc Impacts Our Mental Health

On the Are You Menstrual? Podcast I did an episode on the 3 Minerals That Impact Mental Health. I go through three minerals that impact our mental health and zinc is one of the major ones I want to highlight here in this blog post. Zinc deficiency is associated with many mental health conditions such […]
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Three Minerals You Want To Test & Not Guess Before Supplementing

Supplements are so common these days that it’s easy to forget just how powerful they are. You can go to the grocery store, pharmacy, and most prominently, online to find just about anything you need. I think it’s great that access to supplements is so widely available, but the downside to supplements being so readily […]
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How minerals impact hormones

There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t get a DM about someone’s DUTCH test or hormone blood work that shows a hormone imbalance and then asking what they should do about it. I cannot answer these DM’s (not safe for you or me), but if I did, my first question would be […]
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Supporting Minerals For A Healthy Stress Response

Not only can we minimize stressors using nutrition but we can also strengthen our body’s ability to handle stress through nutrition principles. I am going to dig into specific minerals we can focus on prioritizing without having any testing done, but make sure you are eating enough (I talk about how to know if you […]
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Prioritizing Minerals To Support Gut Health

What do minerals have to do with our gut health? Everything! But seriously, they have a big impact on many different aspects of gut health from supporting digestion to ensuring our immune system is functioning properly to avoiding imbalances of bacteria and fungus. They really impact every aspect of our gut health. One of the […]
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Thyroid Foundations Deep Dive

The topic of thyroid health has generated an overwhelming number of questions. You don’t need to be diagnosed with hypothyroidism to suffer from thyroid issues. I’ve discovered subclinical thyroid dysfunction in myself and many of my clients, impairing their ability to heal fully. How does the thyroid work? Your thyroid powers every cell in your […]
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Zinc & Fertility

Zinc is an important mineral for many reasons. I think zinc is likely most well-known for immune system function. When I did a question box in my Instagram stories, a lot of the questions were about taking zinc when you’re sick or to prevent illness. While zinc is absolutely important for our immune system health […]
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Optimizing Potassium For Healthy Hormones

Potassium is one of those minerals that most people can start supporting without doing any testing and start seeing benefits because of all of the different areas of our health it impacts. Let’s talk about exactly how potassium impacts our hormones, what depletes it, and how you can start supporting potassium levels today. How Potassium […]
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