Rewilded Wellness

The Hidden Link Between Minerals and Hormones: Why HTMA Matters

In this podcast episode "Minerals affect hormones, hormones affect minerals", I delved into the fascinating relationship between minerals and hormones. This connection is crucial for anyone looking to balance their hormones and improve their overall health.

Let's explore some key points from the episode and learn how Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) can be a game-changer in your health journey.

Key Points Covered:

1. The power of daily journaling for health tracking
2. How hair analysis compares to tree rings in revealing health information
3. The role of minerals in regulating energy-producing glands
4. The complex interplay between minerals and hormones
5. Understanding the endocrine system beyond just sex hormones
6. Why traditional hormone testing might be incomplete

Why HTMA is Crucial: HTMA provides a unique window into your body's mineral balance, which as we've discussed, plays a vital role in hormone regulation. By ...

Episode #151: How your body adapts to stress [ & why it matters ] 

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In this episode: I talk about STRESS and how our bodies adapt in light of it. 

First off, stressors aren’t always BAD, BUT if you’re already carrying a ton of stress or your body has been depleted slowly over time due to stress than a new stress may just easily push you over the edge. 

Sometimes the stressor could even be abrupt dramatic diet changes or detoxes or eradication protocols or trying to go after heavy metals or single pathogens are good examples of this. A stressful attempt to force their body into healing. 

The result can be intense and varied - from anxiety, to sleep disturbances, fatigue, missing periods and SO much more! People don't understand how this can push them over the edge. 

If you remember a stressful. period of your life that permanently reduced some or most of your health - listen up - I'm going to talk about adaptation. 

Our bodies are so amazing in how ...

Episode #150: What you can learn from your HTMA [ the main components ] 

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In my last episode I shared that I’d be coming back to expound on components of a hair mineral analysis, in this episode I get into some of the core readings and concepts of this test and work that I do -so you can see how it digs in a deeper way to help guide a path for your current health towards correction

A hair mineral analysis is a HOLISTIC test. It can reflect SO MUCH - such as your heredity, upbringing, lifestyle, diet, drinking water, attitudes, body chemistry, as well as health and dis-ease staes. It reveals an overall picture that is influenced by many factors - this is truly amazing as we simply cannot, nor should not try to separate ourselves up into dissected parts to ‘treat’ because we are all a unique WHOLE and beautifully complex human system. This is why I love this test paired with the mind body coaching work I do because it gives some concrete evide...

Regenerative Farming Tour & Fat-Soluble Vitamins: Why Your Health Depends on Real Food

Discover how traditional farming practices produce nutrient-dense foods rich in fat-soluble vitamins essential for hormonal health, fertility, and overall wellness.

Episode #130: Regenerative Farming Tour & Fat-Soluble Vitamins

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My 8-Year Journey with Regenerative Agriculture

In this revelatory episode, I take you along on my EPIC adventure visiting a local Pennsylvania regenerative farm where I've sourced my food for the past eight years. This isn't just about shopping local—it's about reconnecting with the fundamental source of human nutrition that modern food systems have obscured.

The True Value of Nutrient-Dense Foods

I delve into the extraordinary benefits of consuming foods raised using regenerative principles:

- Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K2) found abundantly in pasture-raised animal products
- Why these nutrien...

In this episode, I talk about what I'm calling your inner "stress barometer" which notifies you when your mind and body are under too much strain. 

Listen to Episode #89: Your Inner Stress Barometer 
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When you become aware of your inner stress barometer-  it can help notify you when you need to give your body more of what it needs.  In order to restore your equilibrium you have to find the right balance in your life in order to restore harmony.

Does your body "act up" when you are stressed?

Do you get strange sensations that make you worry you might have something seriously wrong with you?

Do you listen to your inner needs when you are spread too thin, or do you "power" through it, depleting yourself further?

There's a line in the Lord of Rings in which Bilbo tells Gandalf that “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” 

If you can relate to that ^ be sure to tune in for a loving, yet firm, reminder of why this is not s...

In this episode, I'm talking about the health of your kidneys. Most of us take our kidneys for granted every single day. We don't really think about them until one day something goes wrong, like kidney stones for example. It's important to know in advance that the kidneys need minerals, not medication. 

Listen to Episode #79: Kidneys Need Minerals, Not Medication : Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify 

The kidneys maintain mineral and healthy fluid balance. ⁣
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But you've got to give them the raw ingredients to work with ⁣so they don't struggle to do their job.⁣
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✅Kidneys need hydration to be ON POINT. ⁣
True hydration is water plus minerals⁣
Dehydration concentrates calcium and other minerals in the urine.⁣
✅Water follows salt. Salt has to be ON POINT. ⁣
Real salt consumed for your daily functioning needs. ⁣
✅Magnesium has to be ON POINT. ⁣
The kidney has a vital role in magnesium homeostasis, deficiency (which is common)⁣causes them to struggle⁣
✅A potassium rich diet ...

In this episode, I talk you through the difference between hair analysis and blood analysis. 

Hair analysis (HTMA) and blood analysis are unique and measure different areas of the body. Since HTMA is less familiar, I thought I'd expound on how it offers a window into the cells to help balance body chem­istry. 

Listen to Episode #78 Hair Analysis vs Blood Analysis : Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify 

Modern medicine is unfamiliar with hair analysis because it's more of a corrective path to health versus diagnostic. We have to remember the allopathic model is very directly tied to a corrupt system with a focus on prescribing medication and surgery primarily. They are not trained in preventative medicine. 

Nutritional Therapy centers on the belief that real health can be achieved through a holistic and bio-individual approach to nutrition and lifestyle.This functional approach to health focuses on restoring balance to the body through a nutrient dense diet, natur...

In this episode, I chat about the many moving parts behind high blood pressure and how medication will never correct the underlying imbalance. The problem with a medication only approach is because the imbalances affect more than just one function. 

Listen to Episode #65: Mineral Balancing for Blood Pressure: Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify 

Minerals are KEY in regulating blood pressure. Today we have so many mineral deficiencies or excesses that impact our physiology and they need to be looked at together. This is how we avoid ISOLATIONISTIC thinking that leads to adding bandaids on top of bandaids and never ever correcting function. 

I share trends/patterns and imbalances I see in my practice working with HTMA that correlate with blood pressure. Unfortunately, high blood pressure is not assessed thoroughly in the allopathic world. 

I like to solve the biochemistry problem versus thinking we are 'solving' the problem with a medication, which is just a banda...

In this podcast episode I was a guest on my friend Cailee of The Ripened Heart's podcast. We chatted about how I've observed that mineral imbalances do affect our emotions and personality in addition to our physical health. 

Did you know that having a mineral imbalance can have an impact on your personality and how you see the world?

Mineral balancing is a delicate dance because all minerals have a relationship with each other. Take too much calcium and you get a magnesium deficiency. Consume too much salt and you deplete potassium. It's complicated stuff! And with all of the stress we've been experiencing in the past year our bodies are more depleted of minerals than ever before.

Find this guest episode of mine with Cailee over HERE. 

I shared some personal stories and examples so you can realize just how interconnected we are individually. As a whole person, it makes sense that all of who we are; mind, body, emotions, personality or soul is all connected. It's then really no surpris...

Several years ago, when I began creating my practitioner program teaching others about hair tissue mineral analysis, I had to come up with a name for it. We decided on holistic mineral balancing and it stuck. It then seemed to be a term others were using too; mineral balancing. 

In this podcast episode, I expound on what exactly it is in case you ever wondered. 

Listen to Episode #59: What is Mineral Balancing  - Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify 

Holistic Mineral Balancing is essentially a way to help guide a whole system approach to restoring health through understanding the mineral system of the body and using a tissue analysis for guidance on an appropriate whole body approach. 

Mineral balancing is not just about minerals alone, however, it recognizes that minerals run the show so to speak and need to be addressed from the start so whole body function can be recover and optimized. 

Want more episodes like this one? Check out; Mineral balancing for blood pr...