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Ep 57: My HTMA results and postpartum mineral plan · Love Your Gut

• 0:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: Welcome to the Love Your Gut Podcast.
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  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm your host, Dr.
• 0:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: Heather Finley, registered dietitian and gut health specialist.
• 0:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: I understand the frustration of dealing with GI issues because I've been there and I spent over two decades searching for answers for my own gut issues of constipation, bloating, and stomach pain.
• 0:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: I've dedicated my life to understanding and solving my own gut issues.
• 0:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: And now I'm here to guide you.
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  Dr. Heather Finley: On this podcast, I'll help you identify the true root causes of your discomfort.
• 0:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: So you can finally ditch your symptoms for good.
• 0:36
  Dr. Heather Finley: My goal is to empower you with the knowledge and tools you need so that you can love your gut and it will love you right back.
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  Dr. Heather Finley: So if you're ready to learn a lot, gain a deeper understanding of your gut and find lasting relief.
• 0:48
  Dr. Heather Finley: You are in the right place.
• 0:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: Welcome to the love your gut podcast.
• 0:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: Hello, and welcome back to the next episode of the love your gut podcast.
• 0:58
  Dr. Heather Finley: I am really excited for today's episode because it's one that I have been asked about quite a bit and it's been highly anticipated.
• 1:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I am going to go over my own hair mineral analysis results.
• 1:14
  Dr. Heather Finley: As many of you know, I am at least at the moment of recording this, I am 30.
• 1:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: Nine tomorrow, I'll be 39 weeks pregnant.
• 1:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: So maybe by the time this is out, I'll have a baby.
• 1:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: But I chose to do an HTMAA, a hair mineral analysis test on myself to prepare for postpartum.
• 1:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so this is hopefully going to be a really interesting episode to any of you trying to conceive pregnant postpartum really any stage of life, because I'm going to talk about some of the trends that I found on the test.
• 1:48
  Dr. Heather Finley: And honestly, regardless of if you are planning to have a baby or pregnant or not, I think you'll find this super interesting just to learn what types of insights you can get from this test and then how I am actually moving forward to support myself.
• 2:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I want to ask you the question, have you ever felt sick?
• 2:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: completely worn out.
• 2:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like no matter what you're doing, you just cannot get your energy back.
• 2:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: Or maybe you've wondered why managing stress or blood sugar sometimes feels like an uphill battle.
• 2:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: This was honestly my story before I found HTMAA, which stands for hair mineral, her hair tissue mineral analysis.
• 2:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I want to share Why this has been such a powerful tool for me and how it might help you too.
• 2:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: So there's lots of questions oftentimes on what is HTMAA and how is this different from blood work?
• 2:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I want to break down really clearly for you.
• 2:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: What HTMAa is so HTMAa is a little bit different than blood work because it's more of a long term health snapshot hair will hold on to minerals and really just gives us a picture of how our bodies have been handling minerals over the last few months.
• 3:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: So it's like checking the fuel gauge for essential minerals that keep things going.
• 3:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: Moving in our bodies, every metabolic process in our body relies on minerals, which is super interesting.
• 3:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: And you have to consume minerals.
• 3:26
  Dr. Heather Finley: We cannot make minerals.
• 3:29
  Dr. Heather Finley: So unless we're getting them from our diet or supplementing with them, our body cannot get them.
• 3:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: So minerals really do tons for us.
• 3:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: They create energy.
• 3:40
  Dr. Heather Finley: They also actually help us manage stress.
• 3:43
  Dr. Heather Finley: I know I talk a lot about stress on Instagram and on this podcast as well, and how stress can really be the root cause of GI issues, hormone issues, et cetera.
• 3:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I know that can be a really frustrating thing to hear, but what if stress reduction wasn't just about meditating all day long or doing an adult coloring book, which don't get me wrong.
• 4:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: Those things can be helpful.
• 4:07
  Dr. Heather Finley: What if the reason that you feel frazzled and stressed actually goes back to your mineral depletion?
• 4:14
  Dr. Heather Finley: We have seen so many success stories with clients and I've actually shocked a couple of my friends with this as well.
• 4:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'll never forget this summer.
• 4:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was home one weekend just putzing around the house and my phone dinged and I got a text from a friend and she said, is this mineral magic or am I making this up?
• 4:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: But I've had my period usually, you know, things are really stressful in my business right now.
• 4:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: And usually I'd be like snapping at everything and I'm not, is this just a coincidence?
• 4:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I was like, no, it's absolutely not.
• 4:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: Minerals give us energy.
• 4:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: They help us manage stress.
• 4:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: And really, if we don't have the right balance of minerals, it's like you're driving on fumes.
• 4:58
  Dr. Heather Finley: So you're always just running low and feeling drained.
• 5:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: And obviously most people who have been pregnant know how challenging pregnancy can be.
• 5:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: But it's, you don't even have to have gone through pregnancy or postpartum to feel depleted.
• 5:19
  Dr. Heather Finley: Honestly, some of the most depleting times of my life were well before I had children.
• 5:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: They were after I spent 18 years of my life Being a competitive swimmer, and then training for triathlons, not feeling myself correctly, having digestive issues that prevented my absorption and prevented me from actually absorbing minerals, which is another piece of the puzzle.
• 5:44
  Dr. Heather Finley: You can't absorb minerals if your digestion is suffering.
• 5:49
  Dr. Heather Finley: But then the other side of the coin is we can't even make stomach acid.
• 5:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: Without adequate minerals.
• 5:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: So it ends up being a catch 22, which is why we run HTMAA with our clients.
• 6:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: Pretty much every client we work with, we suggest an HTMAA, especially because we tend to work out, work with clients who are super burnout, who have tried everything.
• 6:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: You know, it's really never.
• 6:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: Someone's first rodeo, whenever they work with us, unless they're starting with an HTMAA.
• 6:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I want to just break down my personal journey with HTMAA how it's really just been a game changer for me.
• 6:28
  Dr. Heather Finley: So when I first started testing, I was dealing with extreme fatigue and burnout.
• 6:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: This was coming off of a postpartum Journey with my second child.
• 6:38
  Dr. Heather Finley: So for those of you that are maybe newer to this podcast or newer to me I have a six year old.
• 6:44
  Dr. Heather Finley: I have an almost three year old and then like I said, I'm basically 39 weeks pregnant with my third after my second I Felt really good until I did it and Did not realize at the time that I had a baby Mold in my body and we had mold in our house.
• 7:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: So about four months postpartum, I hit this wall where I was like, you know, my baby is sleeping again.
• 7:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: Why do I feel so bad?
• 7:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: And that's when I started going down this rabbit hole of what else could be going on?
• 7:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: We found the mold.
• 7:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: We obviously remediated the mold.
• 7:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: I have a whole podcast episode on mold.
• 7:22
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I will link that in the show notes in case you're interested.
• 7:26
  Dr. Heather Finley: We're thinking that might be the case for you.
• 7:28
  Dr. Heather Finley: But really, HTMAA helped me to just understand where my body was so depleted, likely from pregnancy and postpartum, as well as from mold and what I needed to do to feel energized again.
• 7:40
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so I started supporting my minerals.
• 7:43
  Dr. Heather Finley: Based on my HTMAA test after that time, I saw huge, literally huge improvements in my thyroid function.
• 7:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was able to decrease my thyroid meds, which was crazy.
• 7:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: Balance my blood sugar.
• 7:56
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was having these crazy blood sugar swings that I'd never had before.
• 8:01
  Dr. Heather Finley: I felt a lot more resilient to stress.
• 8:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: And these were things that really changed my day to day life as a business owner.
• 8:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: As a mom, I really don't have the capacity or the desire to be tired or to feel like I'm frazzled all the time.
• 8:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so this made such a big difference for me.
• 8:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I knew how much minerals mattered.
• 8:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: There was a time in my brick and mortar practice before I took everything fully online that I.
• 8:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: I ran vitamin and mineral testing in a different capacity and used it with clients and saw good results.
• 8:38
  Dr. Heather Finley: But when I switched to HTMAA, the results were even better.
• 8:41
  Dr. Heather Finley: And this was a pivotal point in my practice when I realized, if this worked so well for me, why are we not doing this with every single client that we have?
• 8:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: And since then, so about three years ago, We have, or two and a half years ago, we have really shifted the order of priority with our clients, where, of course, we're known for gut health and helping people with SIBO and IBS and all sorts of GI issues, but everybody, foundationally, Needs minerals, especially after the last like collective four or five years of just stress and trauma that a lot of us have been through.
• 9:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I decided this time that I was going to take a proactive approach to postpartum.
• 9:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: I've been periodically checking my minerals since that moment, four months postpartum with my son.
• 9:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: And really working on minerals.
• 9:41
  Dr. Heather Finley: As many of, you know, I had a miscarriage last fall.
• 9:44
  Dr. Heather Finley: So last I guess that would be fall 2023 and my health kind of spiraled after that, it was like my body was trying to purge Everything which was a good thing, but uncomfortable at the same time, I had a miscarriage.
• 9:59
  Dr. Heather Finley: Then I actually got scarlet fever, which who even knew that was still a thing.
• 10:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: Then proceeded to get strep throat three times, which I had never.
• 10:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: I hadn't had strep throat in probably 20 years or longer.
• 10:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: I hadn't even been on antibiotics in that long.
• 10:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so it was just this crazy kind of six months of my body, like trying to get into balance again after the miscarriage.
• 10:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: So minerals were a huge piece of my healing journey there.
• 10:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: I could probably do a whole podcast episode on that.
• 10:30
  Dr. Heather Finley: But for brevity sake, we'll just say that Minerals really supported me throughout that time.
• 10:36
  Dr. Heather Finley: I did aHTMATMA pretty shortly actually before the miscarriage and then a couple months after.
• 10:44
  Dr. Heather Finley: This year, 2024, I have done, I've done an HTMAa test twice, so I did an HTMAa in March 2024, and then I just did one now.
• 10:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: I got the results back about a week ago.
• 11:00
  Dr. Heather Finley: So when I completed the test, I was.
• 11:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: probably 36 ish weeks pregnant.
• 11:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I ran this test, like I said, I did it because I wanted to give a proactive approach as a soon to be mom of three, I knew postpartum third time around, especially with two youngish children definitely different and definitely less margin for rest, less margin for all the things that I got to do the first time around, especially, and even the second time, like things just obviously get busier, the more children you have.
• 11:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: I wanted to be fully prepared as I recover from birth.
• 11:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: I want to breastfeed this child as well.
• 11:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: And just hopefully reduce some of the postpartum hair loss that usually hits me around three to four months.
• 11:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: I know that's a big thing that many women experience and many women do not enjoy.
• 11:52
  Dr. Heather Finley: I will keep you posted on that.
• 11:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: I've never intentionally done an HTMAA before the hair loss starts, so we'll see if it's a little different this time around.
• 12:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: Just reflecting on my pregnancy journey I, like I said, had come off of six months of just some up and down health stuff.
• 12:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: Stuff that really hadn't been the case for me for a long time.
• 12:16
  Dr. Heather Finley: But like I said, I really think that my body was just trying to like purge and prepare for a healthy pregnancy.
• 12:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so even though getting scarlet fever wasn't fun and being on antibiotics was not fun it did, I think helped set me up for success to feel better now.
• 12:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: The first 20 weeks of pregnancy, historically, this has been the case with all my pregnancies, are really rough.
• 12:40
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm really sick.
• 12:41
  Dr. Heather Finley: My diet gets really limited.
• 12:43
  Dr. Heather Finley: I live, my team always jokes when we see the simple meals, crackers and protein shakes, we know you're pregnant because that's pretty much what I live on.
• 12:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: For a long time when I'm a first pregnant, I'm extremely nauseous.
• 12:58
  Dr. Heather Finley: I vomit.
• 12:59
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so it's really kind of survival mode for me for those first 20 weeks.
• 13:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: This has been the case throughout every single pregnancy, like I mentioned.
• 13:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I was really honestly just doing what I could, especially because I had two other children to take care of.
• 13:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm thankful.
• 13:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: I have a very equal and helpful husband.
• 13:16
  Dr. Heather Finley: And doing what I could.
• 13:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: Trying to make sure that things with the business were running correctly, obviously couldn't just stop my whole life for 20 weeks.
• 13:26
  Dr. Heather Finley: Made it through.
• 13:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was doing probably one to two mineral mocktails a day.
• 13:31
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like I mentioned, I had done an HTMAA in March.
• 13:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: This was like right during the time that I got pregnant.
• 13:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so typically what I would do after I get an HTMAA is I would custom blend a mineral powder for myself.
• 13:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: This is something that we do for lots of our clients.
• 13:49
  Dr. Heather Finley: They find it extremely convenient.
• 13:52
  Dr. Heather Finley: It also can be actually a lot more cost effective because we can replace a multivitamin.
• 13:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: We can replace liver support.
• 13:59
  Dr. Heather Finley: We can replace lots of kind of adjunctive Supplements and put it into one powder that they can take one to two scoops of a day, just depending on what their doses.
• 14:11
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I've done this several times.
• 14:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: I've probably done two to three at this point, custom mineral powders.
• 14:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: I find them extremely helpful.
• 14:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: They're very potent and it's just really convenient.
• 14:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: I honestly think that you can save quite a bit of money doing this too, because when you start looking at some of the mineral products that are on the market, which Definitely love things like pickable cocktail and element and redmond relight and all those things are fun to have I know many of you love seeing the little mineral mocktails that I come up with And share on instagram, but for convenience sake the powder can be really helpful, but I just knew Based on previous pregnancies that there's absolutely no way that I was just going to be able to tolerate something like that.
• 14:59
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I ended up opting not to do a custom blend and to just try to do mineral mocktails as I could.
• 15:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I did lots of mineral mocktails that had higher potassium, higher sodium, which were two things that I knew that I really needed based on my tests.
• 15:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: And supported myself that way.
• 15:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: Also, once I was not nauseous anymore, really focused on the food side of things as well.
• 15:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like I said, the first 20 weeks I was just trying to eat what I could.
• 15:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: So thankfully, The last 20 or I guess 19 weeks have been a lot easier.
• 15:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm able to eat a much wider variety of foods now.
• 15:36
  Dr. Heather Finley: I really don't have food aversions.
• 15:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: I can actually tolerate like fresh produce and protein and meat and been able to exercise how I would like to and drink mineral mocktails and do all the things.
• 15:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I still do mineral drinks each day to keep up my energy.
• 15:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: And now towards the end of pregnancy, I'm adding in Nora tea.
• 15:58
  Dr. Heather Finley: So if you're unfamiliar with Nora tea, this is nettles, oat straw, red raspberry leaf, and alfalfa.
• 16:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: These four herbs can help get your body ready for labor.
• 16:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: They're also super mineral rich.
• 16:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: And actually nettles specifically is a.
• 16:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: herb that we recommend a lot of times to our clients who struggle with histamine issues.
• 16:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: If they're having allergy symptoms, any kind of histamine breakdown issues, nettles is super rich in minerals, but also can be really supportive for that.
• 16:30
  Dr. Heather Finley: So that's what I've been doing is one to two mineral mocktails a day.
• 16:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: Again, higher sodium, higher potassium, definitely adding in magnesium, especially at night and the Nora tea to help get my body ready for labor as I was preparing to do this HTMAA.
• 16:45
  Dr. Heather Finley: I, HTMAA really for me isn't just a test, it really helps to help me know what my body needs.
• 16:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: I really think it's one of the best tools for how to support yourself through big life changes.
• 17:00
  Dr. Heather Finley: Such as pregnancy and postpartum, you know, if you've just come out of a really stressful time of your life, GI issues, hormone issues.
• 17:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: So really if you're looking for answers, especially with energy or stress, HTMAA is really the best place to start.
• 17:16
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's really easy to get distracted by like really fancy.
• 17:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: Stool test and don't get me wrong.
• 17:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: I love stool testing.
• 17:22
  Dr. Heather Finley: We use it with our clients or hormone testing or whatever it might be.
• 17:26
  Dr. Heather Finley: But foundationally, if your minerals are out of whack, you're not going to respond as well to some of those things.
• 17:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: So let's get into my own HTMAA results and what they mean for health.
• 17:36
  Dr. Heather Finley: So When you're looking at an HTMA test, which obviously this is a podcast, you can't see my results, but definitely check out my Instagram over the next couple of days and my blog as well, which I'll link in the show notes where I have some like tangible screenshots of things that you can actually see.
• 17:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: But there's tons of minerals on this test.
• 17:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: It tests all the main minerals as well as heavy metals.
• 18:00
  Dr. Heather Finley: And what you really want to look at first is the four core minerals.
• 18:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: So these are calcium, sodium, potassium, and magnesium.
• 18:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: So looking at my test, I was not surprised.
• 18:14
  Dr. Heather Finley: Pregnancy is one of the most depleting things when it comes to minerals.
• 18:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was low in three out of four of my core minerals, even though I've been supporting them.
• 18:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I guess the other thing that I didn't mention is I have definitely been taking a prenatal probiotic and some other things as well.
• 18:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: So it's.
• 18:34
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was getting all of that and still some of my minerals were low, which just shows how much your body needs.
• 18:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: So specifically for me, my sodium, potassium and magnesium were low.
• 18:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: This really isn't too surprising given the demands of pregnancy, but it does help explain, you know, perhaps like some of the symptoms I might have.
• 18:56
  Dr. Heather Finley: Towards the end of pregnancy, just like feeling a little bit more tired, a little bit more worn out.
• 19:01
  Dr. Heather Finley: Sometimes a little bit of dizziness, etc.
• 19:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: Nothing extreme nothing crazy.
• 19:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: Honestly, I'm very lucky to feel as good as I do this pregnant.
• 19:11
  Dr. Heather Finley: So sodium specifically, sodium I think the 90s made us extremely scared about sodium.
• 19:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: But sodium isn't just about like salt.
• 19:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's really key for energy, hydration, and how our muscles work.
• 19:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: And when sodium is low, you can feel super fatigued and mentally foggy.
• 19:30
  Dr. Heather Finley: I know for me, my blood pressure tends to run on the lower side of things.
• 19:34
  Dr. Heather Finley: So sodium is something that I definitely need to include.
• 19:38
  Dr. Heather Finley: Obviously, this is where personalization comes in because that might not be the case for you.
• 19:43
  Dr. Heather Finley: So sodium is something that I really want to focus on, especially mineral rich Salt cooking with stuff like Redmond relay or Redmond Redmond real salt, sorry.
• 19:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: Celtic salt, et cetera.
• 19:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's going to have a lot of other minerals in it as well.
• 20:00
  Dr. Heather Finley: But sodium really helps ourselves to be hydrated.
• 20:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: If you've ever drank water all day and you still feel thirsty, perhaps you need more sodium.
• 20:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: This is something that we see a ton with our clients.
• 20:14
  Dr. Heather Finley: We.
• 20:14
  Dr. Heather Finley: I actually see a lot more low sodium on HTMAa testing than we do high sodium.
• 20:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: The next one was potassium.
• 20:22
  Dr. Heather Finley: So potassium is like your energy booster.
• 20:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's what helps you be the energizer bunny.
• 20:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I can speak so specifically to this.
• 20:30
  Dr. Heather Finley: Whenever I have a mineral mocktail that is high in potassium, especially in the afternoon, I feel like I have So much energy and it definitely works way better than like a second cup of coffee.
• 20:45
  Dr. Heather Finley: You might be reaching for that second cup of coffee at 2 PM, but what about potassium instead?
• 20:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: So potassium, like I said, it's like your little energizer bunny.
• 20:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's a muscle helper.
• 20:56
  Dr. Heather Finley: When you feel low, you might feel weak.
• 20:58
  Dr. Heather Finley: You might have poor digestion because potassium helps with muscle contraction.
• 21:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: So if you struggle to empty your bowels, potassium could be key here.
• 21:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: Or if you just feel that constant, like running on empty feeling.
• 21:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: Potassium is something that historically for me has been low and I've had to really diligently support and seeing kind of fluctuations in that.
• 21:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: Most people do not get enough potassium and this is a trend that we see with a lot of our clients.
• 21:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: And then the last one was magnesium.
• 21:29
  Dr. Heather Finley: So magnesium is the mineral that helps us relax.
• 21:33
  Dr. Heather Finley: Low magnesium can show up as muscle tension, poor sleep, even anxiety.
• 21:38
  Dr. Heather Finley: So having all three low sodium, potassium, and magnesium definitely explains why I need to focus on building my reserves back up because I don't want to be tired.
• 21:48
  Dr. Heather Finley: I don't want to lack energy and I don't want to have digestion issues.
• 21:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm grateful that.
• 21:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like I said, I feel decently well now.
• 21:58
  Dr. Heather Finley: But knowing specifically how I can support my minerals is just going to help me feel even better.
• 22:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: A positive note is my calcium levels actually improved quite a bit over pregnancy.
• 22:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: During pregnancy I actually tend to crave dairy a lot more than in my quote unquote normal life.
• 22:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: I tend to crave a lot more like cheese, cottage cheese, fermented dairy, yogurt, kefir, etc.
• 22:22
  Dr. Heather Finley: And that's something that I have been definitely eating especially towards the end of pregnancy.
• 22:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: So the good news is that improved this is, tells me that my body has had some success, you know, absorbing, balancing calcium, making sure that calcium is in the right place something that we often see is high calcium, and, you know, we see this sometimes even in clients who have osteopenia or osteoporosis, it's not that they actually don't have enough, it's just in the wrong place.
• 22:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: Another thing that you can get from HTMAA, which I find actually even more helpful than the minerals themselves is the ratios.
• 22:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: There's a lot of different ratios that you can look at on the test and they all mean something different.
• 23:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'm going to talk about three of the ratios that were a little bit off for me.
• 23:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: And what they mean the mineral levels you can look at but you really can't take them at face value So just because my potassium was low or my magnesium was low or my sodium was low That's helpful.
• 23:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: But what you really want to look at is how are these minerals relating to each other?
• 23:26
  Dr. Heather Finley: So minerals are like a symphony if one of them is off it affects the whole Symphony.
• 23:31
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so the ratios are where you can actually dive a little bit deeper into different systems of the body and how they're functioning.
• 23:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: So the first is the metabolic ratio, and that's the calcium to phosphorus ratio.
• 23:45
  Dr. Heather Finley: This isn't looking at do you have a specific slow metabolism or do you have a fast metabolism, but it just gives insight into how your body is producing energy.
• 23:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: So a balanced ratio here is showing that there's a match between your body's fuel and our engine speed.
• 24:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: In a lot of cases.
• 24:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: This ratio is off a lot of times due to stress.
• 24:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: Mine was off and this makes sense.
• 24:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: Your nutrient demands are super high during pregnancy and especially the first 20 weeks when I was really sick.
• 24:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was likely not meeting my daily mineral needs even through taking a prenatal.
• 24:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: That was surely helping.
• 24:29
  Dr. Heather Finley: The mineral mocktails were surely helping.
• 24:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: But over time you can think of it like digging a ditch.
• 24:34
  Dr. Heather Finley: You know, if every day you're coming up like a little bit short and what you need, eventually you're going to have a big ditch.
• 24:41
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so that's the beauty of HTMAA is you can really bring in a bulldozer and fill in that ditch.
• 24:48
  Dr. Heather Finley: The next one was my blood sugar ratio.
• 24:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: So this is the calcium to magnesium ratio.
• 24:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's often referred to as a blood sugar ratio.
• 24:56
  Dr. Heather Finley: If calcium is too high in relation to magnesium, which is what was the case for me, it can indicate that our blood sugar balance is struggling.
• 25:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: And that is something that I notice sometimes in pregnancy.
• 25:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: I did pass my glucose test, et cetera.
• 25:14
  Dr. Heather Finley: I actually wore a CGM for about 10 days, around 28 weeks of pregnancy.
• 25:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I did notice that even though my blood sugar was like definitely in range and there were no concerns there.
• 25:28
  Dr. Heather Finley: My blood sugar was a lot more sensitive.
• 25:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: So even to things like lack of sleep or stress, I remember I was wearing my CGM during one of the webinars that I gave this summer.
• 25:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: And right after the webinar, my blood sugar tanked so fast.
• 25:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: All of a sudden my phone was like blowing up, the alarms were going off, like your blood sugar is too low.
• 25:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so that definitely you can see there, like there are so many other things that affect blood sugar besides what you're eating.
• 26:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: Obviously I'd had a ton of energy and adrenaline going into this webinar.
• 26:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: I had so much fun.
• 26:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: I love giving webinars and my blood sugar just completely tanked after I was like, I need to eat.
• 26:16
  Dr. Heather Finley: Now, so this ratio shows to me that I need a bit more magnesium to help my body handle my blood sugar a bit more smoothly.
• 26:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: This will help my energy to not dip.
• 26:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: This will also help me to feel more relaxed, less anxious, and help me to sleep better when I am sleeping with a newborn.
• 26:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: If you've ever had a newborn, you know, when you are sleeping, you want to optimize that sleep.
• 26:40
  Dr. Heather Finley: And then the last ratio that we often see off in our clients is the adrenal ratio.
• 26:46
  Dr. Heather Finley: So your adrenals are these little glands that sit on top of your kidneys.
• 26:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: This is looking at the relationship between sodium and magnesium.
• 26:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: And it reflects how well the body manages stress.
• 26:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: So that's why it's called the adrenal ratio.
• 27:00
  Dr. Heather Finley: When sodium is low compared to magnesium.
• 27:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: So again, this is why you can't take these things at face value because it's actually comparing two minerals that I was actually both low in.
• 27:11
  Dr. Heather Finley: It can just suggest that the adrenals are under a bit of pressure and working over time.
• 27:16
  Dr. Heather Finley: Makes sense, right?
• 27:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm pregnant.
• 27:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: My body is growing organs, growing a human.
• 27:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: That's a huge stress on the body.
• 27:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: So it's not.
• 27:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: Shocking that my results show that this ratio is a little bit off, especially given the nutrients that I probably lost during those first 20 weeks.
• 27:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: So supporting my adrenals, supporting my sodium to magnesium ratio is going to be really important there.
• 27:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: And this can help us too, you know, if we are custom blending a mineral powder for someone then we know how much extra, you know, magnesium or sodium or potassium to add instead of just saying okay, eat more sodium, eat more potassium and being super vague.
• 27:59
  Dr. Heather Finley: So here's why these results make sense.
• 28:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: Pregnancy is such a huge draw on your body's resources.
• 28:07
  Dr. Heather Finley: Growing a baby requires a huge supply of minerals and nutrients.
• 28:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: And that's even more true if, like me, you've had times where you couldn't eat a wide range of foods.
• 28:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like I said, for the first 20 weeks, I was living off of simple mills, crackers, and protein shakes and other things.
• 28:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: But those were Kind of my staples and these results really make sense given everything my body's been through and the fact that I really wasn't starting off in an amazing place.
• 28:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: I was starting off definitely in a decent place and I had worked really hard, especially after the miscarriage to support my minerals even through all that crazy scarlet fever, et cetera, et cetera.
• 28:49
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• 28:56
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• 29:05
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• 29:09
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• 29:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: Now back to the episode.
• 29:46
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'm grateful that I have these insights so I can focus on building back up with the right support.
• 29:52
  Dr. Heather Finley: Just a couple other things that I noticed on my HTMAA copper, iron, and cobalt.
• 29:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: So these are three other minerals that we often hone in on with our clients.
• 30:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: Copper is another mineral that showed up in my test results.
• 30:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's critical for iron absorption, hormone balance, immune support, and during pregnancy, copper demands go up.
• 30:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'm going to be watching this closely to make sure I'm getting enough and really just supporting my body with copper rich foods.
• 30:19
  Dr. Heather Finley: You can.
• 30:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: Really focus on vitamin a to help with copper.
• 30:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: There's a lot of things too, that can go into that and then iron.
• 30:28
  Dr. Heather Finley: So iron is a tricky concept during pregnancy.
• 30:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: Iron oftentimes will, especially ferritin will drop during pregnancy.
• 30:37
  Dr. Heather Finley: And this is something that I've researched a lot because I noticed this for myself on my labs, my ferritin was dropping and I started getting worried and the more that I realized.
• 30:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: Her research this, I realized that hemodilution is really common in pregnancy.
• 30:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so it's really more about looking at iron, vitamin A, ceruloplasmin, copper, like looking at the whole picture.
• 31:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: So iron is really vital for oxygen delivery.
• 31:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: We need it even more during pregnancy.
• 31:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: It can be normal.
• 31:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: You know, you have twice the amount of blood to see changes in your iron when you're pregnant, but especially postpartum low iron can contribute to hair loss.
• 31:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so that's something that I'm going to keep an eye on as well.
• 31:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: Given the context there.
• 31:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: And then the lastly is cobalt.
• 31:26
  Dr. Heather Finley: So cobalt is a part of vitamin B12.
• 31:29
  Dr. Heather Finley: It supports nerve health.
• 31:31
  Dr. Heather Finley: mood and energy.
• 31:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: And while cobalt needs are smaller than other minerals, it plays a huge role in how you process stress, which is important, you know, during pregnancy and beyond.
• 31:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: And even, you know, the stress of not sleeping consistently or all the things that just happen postpartum.
• 31:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: So, that is a little bit about my HTMAA findings.
• 31:56
  Dr. Heather Finley: I want to dive into Why or what I'm going to do now.
• 32:01
  Dr. Heather Finley: So just keep in mind, my results are my results.
• 32:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: And even though maybe you relate to some of the symptoms that I might have, you really, if you want to know your.
• 32:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: mineral levels, the best way to know is to test because there's so many different patterns that can show up on HTMAA, which is why I love it because HTMAA is so personalized.
• 32:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: If I only looked at my individual mineral levels, I might miss what's happening with even my ratios.
• 32:34
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so knowing how to not only interpret the minerals, but also the ratios is really helpful.
• 32:41
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I can understand exactly where I need to focus, especially as I recover for this and continue to support my energy for breastfeeding.
• 32:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'm going to make a custom mineral blend for myself.
• 32:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: I actually ordered this last week, so I should be getting it sometime soon.
• 33:00
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I want to make sure that number one, I'm doing this because I want to make sure I'm getting everything I need.
• 33:07
  Dr. Heather Finley: Number two, I'm doing it out of convenience.
• 33:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: I actually would much prefer to drink something than take pills.
• 33:13
  Dr. Heather Finley: The prenatal that I'm taking, I've cycled between gut personal full well and needed.
• 33:19
  Dr. Heather Finley: Some of those were gifted.
• 33:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: But they're all prenatals that I've researched and feel comfortable taking.
• 33:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: I wouldn't take them if I wasn't.
• 33:26
  Dr. Heather Finley: But with my HTMAa mineral blend, I can replace my prenatal, which is nice.
• 33:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I don't have to take eight pills a day, which is great.
• 33:36
  Dr. Heather Finley: Cause it's a lot.
• 33:37
  Dr. Heather Finley: But this blend is going to include all the minerals that I need based on my results.
• 33:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: Things like Potassium, sodium, magnesium, copper.
• 33:45
  Dr. Heather Finley: I know that newborn life can be a little bit chaotic and overwhelming.
• 33:49
  Dr. Heather Finley: And so I'm just trying to make things simpler.
• 33:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: And then obviously most importantly, focusing on really nourishing foods.
• 33:56
  Dr. Heather Finley: So even though yes, getting a custom blend is convenient and helpful.
• 34:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: The best way that you can nourish yourself is with food.
• 34:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'm going to make sure that I'm eating foods that are rich, especially in the minerals that I was low in foods like leafy greens, bananas, nuts, seeds, bone broth, liver.
• 34:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: Liver is something that I've slowly.
• 34:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: integrated into my diet because of copper, because of vitamin a I like the force of nature blends that have liver in them.
• 34:28
  Dr. Heather Finley: Especially if I do one pack of that and one pack of ground beef making taco meat, you don't even know it's there.
• 34:34
  Dr. Heather Finley: I do find that I can't do the leftovers as well because it does smell.
• 34:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I try to just make what we need for that day.
• 34:41
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's not great for like meal prep, unless you're going to freeze it.
• 34:46
  Dr. Heather Finley: But getting these minerals is going to help my body to get what I need.
• 34:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: And it's really going to help with healing and recovery minerals, especially the ones that I mentioned, they help support cell repair.
• 34:59
  Dr. Heather Finley: They're going to help repair my body after the stress of delivery and even magnesium is going to help with just muscle relaxation, et cetera.
• 35:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: And then also help with breastfeeding and milk production.
• 35:14
  Dr. Heather Finley: So minerals are essential to make milk.
• 35:19
  Dr. Heather Finley: I noticed this actually both times with my last two kids, when I was dehydrated or when I was just drinking water and I was not supporting my body with minerals, my.
• 35:30
  Dr. Heather Finley: milk production would decrease.
• 35:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'm really interested to see how specifically supporting my minerals.
• 35:37
  Dr. Heather Finley: Now that I know my specific levels is going to help even more.
• 35:41
  Dr. Heather Finley: And then other reasons that I'm supporting this postpartum for sure.
• 35:46
  Dr. Heather Finley: Mood and emotional wellbeing.
• 35:48
  Dr. Heather Finley: For sure.
• 35:48
  Dr. Heather Finley: Helping with hormone rebalancing.
• 35:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: This can take up to a year for your hormones really to rebalance after giving birth the fastest and largest, most drastic hormone drop that you're ever going to have is after birth.
• 36:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: And it can be really taxing and challenging.
• 36:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: Some minerals can help support that.
• 36:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: And make sure that hopefully you're feeling as best as you can.
• 36:13
  Dr. Heather Finley: So just to reiterate here, minerals are essential for your health, regardless of really what you're going through.
• 36:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: These minerals are building blocks for the body.
• 36:24
  Dr. Heather Finley: They're foundational to every major system in the body from energy production and hormone imbalance, hormone balance to digestion and even stress resilience.
• 36:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: And when you don't have enough, minerals.
• 36:38
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's like your body is missing the tools that it needs to function at its best.
• 36:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: So if you're dealing with low fatigue low energy, constant fatigue, it can be a sign that your body doesn't have what it needs to make energy effectively.
• 36:54
  Dr. Heather Finley: And HTMAA or mineral support, even if you just download my free mineral guide I have the guide categorized by needs.
• 37:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: So yeah.
• 37:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: energy mocktails, sleep mocktails, thyroid mocktails, etc.
• 37:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: So you can go in and pick what would be best for you.
• 37:12
  Dr. Heather Finley: I want to talk about lastly, just some of the misconceptions or just things that are overlooked with minerals.
• 37:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: So many people don't realize they need mineral support.
• 37:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: And like I said, we've really changed how we've practiced over the last two and a half years because we were seeing clients that had crazy GI issues.
• 37:32
  Dr. Heather Finley: You know, they'd done this It's like everything in the body starts working again, and it simplifies the process.
• 37:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: So mineral imbalances are often.
• 37:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: way overlooked and are way more common.
• 37:53
  Dr. Heather Finley: Because it's really easy to be like, Oh you're a mom.
• 37:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: Of course you're tired or yeah, you're tired because of such and such, or you're, you need to sleep more, et cetera.
• 38:03
  Dr. Heather Finley: But sometimes really getting in there, getting in the weeds and seeing what's going on can help with low energy.
• 38:10
  Dr. Heather Finley: Another thing that we've seen at help with is iron issues.
• 38:13
  Dr. Heather Finley: So if you're taking iron and your iron is still not going up, It perhaps is actually not an iron issue.
• 38:20
  Dr. Heather Finley: It is a overall mineral issue and a recycling issue.
• 38:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: We've seen it a lot with thyroid as well.
• 38:28
  Dr. Heather Finley: We get clients that have, you know, quote unquote, normal thyroid labs, and then all of a sudden they support their minerals.
• 38:36
  Dr. Heather Finley: They feel so much better in these like subclinical thyroid.
• 38:40
  Dr. Heather Finley: symptoms go away because even though their TSH was normal, perhaps all the other markers were off.
• 38:46
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I hope that this was interesting to you.
• 38:50
  Dr. Heather Finley: If you're thinking like, okay, I want to look at this or just even learn more about minerals.
• 38:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like I mentioned, I do have a free mineral guide.
• 39:01
  Dr. Heather Finley: It has practical tips for supporting your minerals.
• 39:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: So even starting with foods, mineral rich foods like leafy greens, nuts, seeds, adding sea salt, obviously, you know, that's going to be variant, variable on your specific health conditions.
• 39:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: But whether you're working on digestion, energy, mood, supporting your minerals, with mineral rich foods, mineral mocktails even Epsom salt baths or ways to get minerals into your body that way can be really helpful.
• 39:35
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'll put the link to the mineral guide in the show notes.
• 39:40
  Dr. Heather Finley: You can go ahead and download that.
• 39:42
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's free.
• 39:43
  Dr. Heather Finley: There's lots of links in there for like different mineral products.
• 39:46
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like I said, it's categorized based on Like health condition or concern.
• 39:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: So if you're struggling with sleep or thyroid issues or energy, you can pick which mocktail might be good for you.
• 39:58
  Dr. Heather Finley: Obviously it is a guide.
• 40:00
  Dr. Heather Finley: It is not medical advice.
• 40:02
  Dr. Heather Finley: So please consult your doctor.
• 40:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: If you have concerns or before trying something new but that can be such a great place to start.
• 40:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I hope today's episode just helps you, I think, first of all, realize I'm human.
• 40:15
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm not perfect.
• 40:16
  Dr. Heather Finley: I am on this journey as well.
• 40:19
  Dr. Heather Finley: And I will keep you posted on how this supports me.
• 40:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: We've seen it support several of our clients postpartum trying to conceive during pregnancy, et cetera.
• 40:29
  Dr. Heather Finley: So I'm super hopeful for this, but if you're dealing with fatigue, GI issues, hormone issues start with supporting your minerals.
• 40:37
  Dr. Heather Finley: It really can be life changing.
• 40:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm also super excited because when this comes out, you are not super far away from our black Friday offer.
• 40:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: So once a year we put our HTMA a bundle on sale.
• 40:52
  Dr. Heather Finley: So the HTMA a bundle includes the HTMA a test as well as a one on one consult to go over your results.
• 40:59
  Dr. Heather Finley: That's where you can Decide if you want to do a custom blend, you want to do food, you want to do different supplements or a combination of both.
• 41:06
  Dr. Heather Finley: We can walk you through all of our recommendations for you.
• 41:09
  Dr. Heather Finley: Some video modules, all the stuff.
• 41:11
  Dr. Heather Finley: So it includes the test as well as that consult 50 off for black Friday.
• 41:16
  Dr. Heather Finley: It's the only time of year that we put it on sale.
• 41:18
  Dr. Heather Finley: There's only going to be 30 spots available because this is a one on one offer.
• 41:23
  Dr. Heather Finley: So if you're not, if you haven't downloaded the mineral guide, but you want to do HTMAA, go ahead and download it.
• 41:30
  Dr. Heather Finley: Cause that will put you on our email list so that you're the first to know the sale will be on black Friday, which fun fact is actually my birthday.
• 41:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: So even more reason to celebrate and we will be sending out the email at 9am central time last year we sold out in the same day.
• 41:49
  Dr. Heather Finley: Okay.
• 41:49
  Dr. Heather Finley: Definitely set your alarm write down all your Black Friday purchases, put that at the top since it's going out at 9 a.
• 41:55
  Dr. Heather Finley: m.
• 41:56
  Dr. Heather Finley: But, you know, we've seen clients go from struggling with daily fatigue and blood sugar crashes to having energy improvements.
• 42:05
  Dr. Heather Finley: Like I mentioned, the first, friend who texted me like no PMS symptoms, no moodiness, we've seen iron issues resolved.
• 42:13
  Dr. Heather Finley: We've seen chronic GI issues resolved clients taking like 1200 milligrams of magnesium citrate and not going to the bathroom.
• 42:21
  Dr. Heather Finley: And all of a sudden they support their minerals and their bowels are moving a lot better.
• 42:25
  Dr. Heather Finley: So just remember that your health.
• 42:28
  Dr. Heather Finley: is worth investing in.
• 42:29
  Dr. Heather Finley: If you're dealing with any health concern, this can be such a powerful tool.
• 42:34
  Dr. Heather Finley: HTMAA testing is a great place to start.
• 42:37
  Dr. Heather Finley: I hope that this encourages you.
• 42:39
  Dr. Heather Finley: I will keep you posted on my postpartum mineral journey.
• 42:44
  Dr. Heather Finley: So follow along on my stories on my blog on this podcast, of course and share this with a friend, maybe it would be interesting for them to read but thanks so much for tuning into this episode of the love your gut podcast.
• 42:57
  Dr. Heather Finley: Don't forget to download the mineral guide and definitely keep an eye out for the black Friday, HTMA a sale.
• 43:04
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'll see you next time on the next episode of the love your podcast.
• 43:08
  Dr. Heather Finley: I'm giving you a thumbs up because you just finished another episode of the love your gut podcast.
• 43:13
  Dr. Heather Finley: I am so excited because black Friday is just around the corner.
• 43:17
  Dr. Heather Finley: And honestly, Thanksgiving and black Friday are some of my favorite days of the year.
• 43:22
  Dr. Heather Finley: The buzz on Instagram has been wild with questions about our black Friday specials.
• 43:27
  Dr. Heather Finley: And guess what?
• 43:28
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• 43:31
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• 43:37
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• 43:41
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• 43:43
  Dr. Heather Finley: I promise the link to join our email list is in the show notes below.
• 43:47
  Dr. Heather Finley: And as always remember that when you love your gut, it'll love you back.
• 43:51
  Dr. Heather Finley: And that's what we're all about.