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:

  1. Nutrition
  2. Lifestyle
  3. Supplements

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:

  • Consuming a variety of nutrient-dense foods (animals and plants)
  • Including animal foods at most (if not all) meals and snacks
  • Prioritizing adequate protein for optimal blood sugar balance and muscle building
  • Eating breakfast
  • Incorporating organ meats 1-2x per week (or once a month–depends on the person)

If there were one mineral that I think is a great place for everyone to start (with or without lab testing), that would be potassium. Potassium supports out thyroid, blood sugar, and supports electrolyte balance with sodium making it essential for proper hydration. The best way to get potassium is through potassium rich foods. Luckily, there are a wide variety of foods that contain potassium.

One of the big benefits of getting potassium from food is that those foods are also rich in other minerals. You might notice that a lot of potassium rich foods are also great sources of calcium, especially leafy greens, seafood, and dairy. Prioritizing more potassium rich foods in your diet is a great way to start supporting your minerals.

Lifestyle

How you are living each day has a huge impact on your mineral status. Are you constantly in a rush? Do you have signs you are addicted to cortisol?

  • Always having a mile long to do list
  • Feeling the need to do high intensity workouts
  • Relying on coffee
  • Rush through meals (never sit down)
  • Lots of multitasking
  • Constantly checking their phone
  • Resistant to rest and relaxation
  • Obsessed with health and constantly researching

Take Inventory Of How You Are Living

Writing this down can help if you are visual. Here are some questions to reflect on:

  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • Are you going from the moment you get up until the moment you go to bed?
  • Are you often rushing or do you give yourself enough time for things?
  • Do you spend time outside most days?

Most of us are living in a state of constant stress and doing. This will leave anyone feeling anxious. There are often small changes we can make overtime to slow down. Learning to do less and not always feeling like you have to be productive is often a key part of reducing our stress and slowing down. Take a few minutes to reflect on your day-to-day and try to find some space for slowing down. What change could you make to something to make it less stressful? Maybe it’s shortening a to-do list and only doing what’s absolutely essential or being more realistic with how long tasks take you so you aren’t always rushing. Whatever that might look like for you, outline changes you can start implementing (only do one at a time) to bring a little more peace to your day-to-day life.


Supporting Digestion & Slowing Down

Slowing down at meals to allow your body to digest your food better is not only great for digestion but also for the nervous system and stress response. If digestion and metabolism are compromised, using apple cider vinegar or digestive bitters before meals helps.

Learn more about my best advice for how to get started supporting your minerals on this podcast episode! I also have a mineral 101 guide that you will also find super helpful it getting started.


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Amanda Montalvo

Amanda Montalvo is a women's health dietitian who helps women find the root cause of hormone imbalances and regain healthy menstrual cycles.

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