Hormone chaos or mineral imbalance
I spent years going from practitioner to practitioner & diet to diet on the quest to balance my hormones, what I learned was I was chasing an uphill problem instead of addressing the root cause.
When I opened the clinic and started working with clients I saw similar stories to mine “no matter what my hormones just won’t regulate, I take so many supplements and I don’t know if they’re even doing anything” etc etc, this made me wonder, what is the real problem here?
I took a deep dive into the ‘foundational medicine’ world, the idea of addressing the body from the ground up and discovered the importance of minerals. We all know minerals are essential and to take electrolytes if you’ve had too much sun or gone for a long run but beyond that they’re ignored, which I now know is completely bananas..
Your minerals are everything, let’s discover why.
The spark plugs of the cell
Minerals are the ‘spark plugs of the cell,’ if we go to the very root of how our body creates energy, maintains homeostasis, supports our metabolism and overall cellular function it all starts with minerals. Minerals serve as cofactors for enzymes, which are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions, they’re literally the spark plugs of the cell, when they’re out of balance everything up stream like hormone balance, memory, digestive function, mood & energy levels like a domino effect become out of balance too.
How to know if you have a mineral imbalance?
You can check your levels on blood tests but this can be unreliable, I recommend you run a HTMA (Hair tissue mineral analysis) to look into tissue rather than blood results, this also looks at heavy metals. I started offering HTMA in my clinic after realizing what a great tool it is alongside herbal medicine as both offerings look to the root of your imbalances through different lenses.
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What causes mineral imbalance?
Modern farming
Mineral deficient soils
Hormonal birth control
Nutrient deplete diets
Heavy metal exposures
Certain medications like antacids & diuretic
Taking the wrong supplements (more on this below)
Test or guess?
The deeper I flow into the world of foundational medicine the more I realize two things:
If you’re in touch with your intuition your body knows what it needs
Testing when necessary can be a really helpful tool
Yes they’re contradictory but, here is my take on this. Often I see people craving the foods they need, cacao & dark chocolate if they’re magnesium deficient, bananas and potatoes if they’re low in potassium and anything salty when their adrenals are screaming for help. So often our body knows what it needs but, in our modern society of synthetic foods, constant stimulation and gut imbalances that intuition can often be clouded by toxins making us crave what those toxins want eg: Candida and parasites making you crave sugar or food additives making you crave packaged junk. So, often it’s just better to test and even if you’re really in tune with your body I do find the HTMA’s view of minerals & metals to be really insightful. This is because the HTMA provides a 3 month view rather than a snapshot like a blood test, it’s also much more affordable & accurate than other tests.
Next steps to remineralize your body
Consume bioavailable mineral dense nutrition
I’m talking, natures gatorade adrenal cocktails, heres my recipe
Herbs that both detox & remineralize the body like Shilajit, often people don’t realise that their mineral deficencys are also due to heavy metal and chemical accumulations (binding to the same receptor sites). Shilajit is great for this because it contains naturally occurring humic and fulvic acids to aid detox while being extremely mineral dense to support the process of healing Always make sure the Shilajit is heavy metal tested and start on half a dropper per day and increase to 1 dropper after a month
You can also add herbs like ginger, nettle or hibiscus, brew them in a pot or over boiling water and let them infuse overnight, drink this in the morning for an abundant dose of minerals and plant medicine nourishment
Foods like organ meats & cod liver oil capsules for bioavailable fat soluble nutrients
Foods rich in amino acids like gelatin, collagen and lean proteins
Raw dairy or goat cheese for bioavailable fat soluble vitamins and calcium
Steamed dark leafy vegetables for abundance in trace minerals like calcium and vitamin K
Enzyme and nutrient rich fruits like pomegranate, papaya, lemons & limes, wild blueberries, pineapple, plantain & avocado
Swim in the ocean, not only does the ocean help with stress management it’s also the best source of magnesium chloride absorbed through the skin while you relax, surf or swim
Most importantly, practice stress management practices, cultivate community, devote yourself to mindfulness tools, the quickest way to deplete your minerals is through active stress, fight or flight uses all of these precious resources regardless of if we’re sitting at our desk and not being chased by a tiger in the wild.
With love in vibrant health,
