A Hair Mineral Analysis is a Screening Test
Hair Mineral Analysis
Hair tissue mineral analysis is used worldwide to measure environmental contamination with toxic metals in the soil, plants and human and animal populations.
Understanding mineral patterns is one component to good interpretation of the Hair Analysis report. If interpreted correctly, there are numerous variables a hair test can identify. This includes:
Understanding mineral patterns is one component to good interpretation of the Hair Analysis report. If interpreted correctly, there are numerous variables a hair test can identify. This includes:
✔Adrenal Function,
✔Thyroid function,
✔Toxic Metals & Hidden Toxic Metals,
✔Various components of Digestive Function,
✔Carbohydrate Tolerance.
✔Thyroid function,
✔Toxic Metals & Hidden Toxic Metals,
✔Various components of Digestive Function,
✔Carbohydrate Tolerance.
Conditions which may result or be aggravated by a mineral imbalance are:
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✔ Depression,
✔ Hypoglycemia ✔ Hyperactivity, ✔ Headaches, ✔Hypertension, ✔Arthritis, ✔Hair Loss, ✔ High Blood Pressure, ✔ Anemia, ✔ Thyroid Disturbance |
✔ Prostate Disorders,
✔ Digestive Disturbances ✔ Diabetes, ✔ Musculo-Skeletal Disorders, ✔ Cardiovascular Disease, ✔ Skin Rashes, ✔ Pyroluria, ✔ Emotional Problems, ✔ Allergies, ✔ and More. |
Why Test for Minerals?
Minerals are the “spark plugs” of life. They create the conductivity or energy, which helps power our cells. The foundations of our health rest upon our body’s ability to absorb and use minerals.
Minerals feed and help regulate the functioning of our entire nervous system, which governs the organs and glands of our body. They are involved in almost all enzyme reactions within the body. Without enzyme activity, life ceases to exist. They also are necessary if we are to use vitamins, hormones, and neurotransmitters properly.
Minerals feed and help regulate the functioning of our entire nervous system, which governs the organs and glands of our body. They are involved in almost all enzyme reactions within the body. Without enzyme activity, life ceases to exist. They also are necessary if we are to use vitamins, hormones, and neurotransmitters properly.
Who Needs a Hair Mineral Analysis?
Anyone who is ill and no explanation can be found, or when the cause seems to be found but the therapy is not completely effective and anyone who really wants to know the state of their own health.
Furthermore, hair analysis can be used as a preventative tool by revealing mineral imbalances even before any symptoms become manifest. Hair analysis opens up a whole new vista for the solving of health symptoms by recognizing your biochemical individuality.
Furthermore, hair analysis can be used as a preventative tool by revealing mineral imbalances even before any symptoms become manifest. Hair analysis opens up a whole new vista for the solving of health symptoms by recognizing your biochemical individuality.
Hair Analysis vs. Blood Tests
Blood tests provide important information about a person's biochemical status, but they only evaluate the fluids in the body. However, the vast majority of biochemical functions actually take place inside the cells themselves.
Of course, we can't conveniently take snips out of the various organs of a person's body in order to evaluate what is going on in the cells, but there are cells conveniently available to us, the cells of the hair.
Through extensive research and correlation of data by the late Dr. Paul C. Eck, it has been established that there are reliable relationships between the levels of minerals in the hair and other tissues of the body.
Therefore, analysis of the mineral content of an individual's hair can provide us with a general 'blueprint' of the mineral content in the rest of the body's tissues. Since these minerals are crucial to the functioning of enzymes, hormones and other biochemical systems which sustain life, it is possible to read this 'blueprint' and see where metabolic patterns are deviating from normal.
Of course, we can't conveniently take snips out of the various organs of a person's body in order to evaluate what is going on in the cells, but there are cells conveniently available to us, the cells of the hair.
Through extensive research and correlation of data by the late Dr. Paul C. Eck, it has been established that there are reliable relationships between the levels of minerals in the hair and other tissues of the body.
Therefore, analysis of the mineral content of an individual's hair can provide us with a general 'blueprint' of the mineral content in the rest of the body's tissues. Since these minerals are crucial to the functioning of enzymes, hormones and other biochemical systems which sustain life, it is possible to read this 'blueprint' and see where metabolic patterns are deviating from normal.
Is Hair Mineral Analysis Supported by Research?
Hair mineral analysis is supported by an impressive body of literature in a variety of respected national and international scientific publications. Over the past twenty-five years hair mineral testing has been extensive.
Each year in the United States alone, federally licensed clinical laboratories perform over 150,000 hair mineral assays for health care professionals interested in an additional screening aid for a comprehensive patient evaluation. This does not take into consideration the thousands of subjects used in numerous continuing research studies conducted by private and government research agencies.
Each year in the United States alone, federally licensed clinical laboratories perform over 150,000 hair mineral assays for health care professionals interested in an additional screening aid for a comprehensive patient evaluation. This does not take into consideration the thousands of subjects used in numerous continuing research studies conducted by private and government research agencies.
Common Cause of Mineral Imbalances
- Improper Diet
The next problem we face is that most of our food does not contain enough minerals to properly power our bodies with energy.
Quotes by the Senate Report mentioned earlier were based on a study conducted by Dr. Charles Northern, in which he observed the following:
“It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99% of the American people are deficient in these minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease. Any upset of the balance, any considerable lack of one or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives.”
This Senate Study was further supported by research completed at Yale, Rutgers, John Hopkins, Columbia and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Northern demonstrated "that countless human ills stem from the fact that impoverished soil of America no longer provides plant foods with mineral elements essential to human nourishment and health."
- Stress
- Lifestyle
- Medications
- Pollution
- Nutritional Supplements
- Inherited Patterns
A predisposition toward certain mineral imbalances, deficiencies and excesses can be inherited from parents.
Is Metal Toxicity a Cause to my Symptoms?
Hair mineral analysis screens for toxic metals including lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum and nickel. Presently, humanity is exposed to the highest levels of toxic metals in recorded history, up to several thousand times higher than even several hundred years ago due to industrialization.
Many health conditions are simply heavy metal toxicity and can contribute to any imaginable symptom or illness including cases of diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, mental illness, and others.
Additionally, hair analysis can reveal copper toxicity and the three amigos (aluminum, manganese, and iron).
Copper toxicity is one of the most commonly encountered imbalances that we find on hair tests and is a contributor to many health problems including and not limited to,
Many health conditions are simply heavy metal toxicity and can contribute to any imaginable symptom or illness including cases of diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, mental illness, and others.
Additionally, hair analysis can reveal copper toxicity and the three amigos (aluminum, manganese, and iron).
Copper toxicity is one of the most commonly encountered imbalances that we find on hair tests and is a contributor to many health problems including and not limited to,
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✔ anorexia,
✔ fatigue, ✔ premenstrual syndrome, ✔ pyroluria, ✔ depression, ✔ anxiety, |
✔ phobias,
✔ migraine headaches, ✔ allergies, ✔ childhood hyperactivity, and ✔ learning disorders. |
The principle of the three amigos is if any one is present in excess on a hair analysis test, most likely all of them are present in excess in a biounavailable form that the body is not able to utilize.
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✔ inflammation,
✔ diabetes, ✔ hypoglycemia, ✔ prostate disease, |
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✔ irritability,
✔ anxiety, ✔ emotional detachment, not enough joy in one's life, |
✔ diabetes,
✔ cancer, and ✔even criminality and psychopathic or sociopathic behavior. |
The danger of toxic metals in our environment is greatly aggravated due to low mineral content of our food supply and contamination of our food supply. If one does not consume preferred minerals in the diet, the body will pick up whatever toxic metals from the food, air, and water as substitutes.
A key principle to remember is an abundance of essential minerals in the diet protects the body against toxic metals.
Tired & Burned Out
According to hair analysis research, 70-80% of hair tests show weak adrenal glands. The adrenal glands sit atop of your kidneys producing over a dozen of hormones and they regulate blood sugar, blood pressure, salt, and the autonomic nervous system.
One of the main symptoms of adrenal exhaustion is unrelenting fatigue.
One of the main symptoms of adrenal exhaustion is unrelenting fatigue.
Other Symptoms Are:
✔ Low blood pressure
✔ low blood sugar
✔ sweet cravings
✔ aches and pains and perhaps recurrent or chronic infections.
✔ Low blood pressure
✔ low blood sugar
✔ sweet cravings
✔ aches and pains and perhaps recurrent or chronic infections.
There are many indicators on a properly performed and correctly interpreted hair analysis that will reveal the condition and performance of an individual's adrenal glands.
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