STEP UP PATTERN
This pattern is not seen too often, mainly because the people with this pattern do not usually live long enough for us to correct it. Another name for the pattern is stepping out of life. The step up pattern is a combination of:
1. A fast or fast-mixed oxidation rate
2. A double low ratio pattern (Ca/Mg ratio less than about 4, and the Na/K ratio less than 2.5)
3. A visual pattern in which the first four or three macrominerals must appear like steps moving upward to the right. Hence the name step up pattern.
4. Four lows is not present. (If it is, the pattern has a different meaning that is explained below under the heading Step Up With Four Lows Pattern).
THE MEANING OF STEP UP PATTERN ON AN INITIAL MINERAL ANALYSIS
Components of the pattern. A fast oxidation pattern is associated with acute stress, emotional immaturity in an adult, inflammation and irritability. A low sodium/potassium ratio is associated with frustration, resentment, hostility, cardiac stress, blood sugar stress, malignancy, kidney stress and liver stress. A low calcium/magnesium ratio reinforces the low sodium/potassium ratio tendencies.
Usually a fast death pattern. This is what I call a fast death pattern. It is associated with a tendency for a heart attack, in particular, or perhaps a vascular accident such as a stroke.
It is also associated with arteriosclerosis, angina, cardiac arrythmias, and perhaps malignancy and diabetes.
It is an acute and chronic stress pattern and an inflammatory pattern. It is a running away pattern.
It is fast and reckless, the opposite of step down pattern, which is slow but sure.
Fortunately, a nutritional balancing program, especially if applied quickly, can easily turn the pattern around in most cases.
Step up pattern with four lows pattern. Step up with four lows pattern is actually a good pattern. It seems to indicate that a person is trying very hard to stay in this life. The person may be “running away from the tunnel of death, as best he or she can”.
Psychological meaning of step up pattern. A person with this pattern is moving in a dangerous direction and unable or usually unwilling to change direction and to make important life changes. He is determined, in other words, to proceed as he is going. He is also putting himself under tremendous stress, and burning out (low Na/K ratio doubled or reinforced by a low Ca/Mg ratio), and so he is in trouble.
It can indicate a futile attempt to stay in an egotistical pattern of pushing oneself hard or striving hard and “pushing through life” (a fast oxidation rate), when this attitude or response to life, or to a particular situation, just is not working. It is an intense striving pattern that is not producing results because it is not the appropriate response for the person at this time. Metaphorically, one might say it is a ‘hardening of the heart’ that is very dangerous. There is a need for love, perhaps more self-love, and surrender.
The pattern may be due mainly to biochemical imbalances, especially a need for copper. In other cases, psychological factors play a greater role. (Copper softens a person and is a more feminine mineral.)
It may also be called a stuck in fast oxidation pattern. Visually, the pattern appears like a person running headlong into a wall, represented by the elevated potassium level on the right of the four macrominerals on the graph.
A type of deep conflict pattern. A conflict pattern means that a clash is occurring between two powerful, but opposing forces. In this case, one of the forces at work on the person is a fast oxidation rate. This is a more aggressive, pushing forward, hard-driving, and more ‘male’ approach to life.
However, this tendency is in conflict with or opposed by a double low ratio pattern. The latter is a severe weakness, depleted-of-energy, reversed pattern. The person is pushing ahead on one hand, but the gearshift is in reverse, in a way, so it is not working at all! Perhaps it is more like having one foot on the gas pedal of the car, and the other on the brake pedal. This is very wearing on the engine.
The person is trying to push ahead at full speed, but the direction is blocked, like having the brake on or the car is pushing against a solid wall or rock. As a result, the body is becoming very weak and depleted.
Often a fatal stalled transition pattern. A person with step up pattern needs to slow down and transition from fast to slow oxidation, and in this sense to follow a different path. If this does not occur quickly, often one will die.
What blocks this transition is often a need for a lot of copper, although emotional factors could also be in play.
Who has the pattern? The step up pattern is most often seen in:
The other outcome may be called a change of heart. When this occurs, a person gives up their dreams, or perhaps their ego stubbornness, and changes direction. Often, in these cases, the person moves into a four lows pattern, which is a special type of hiding or giving up pattern.
We know this because when one retraces and heals with a development program, some with a four lows pattern temporarily move into a step up pattern when they leave four lows. The step up pattern usually is mild and does not last long, and the person continues to retrace and move into other patterns.
CORRECTION, AND THE RELATION OF COPPER AND IRON TO THIS PATTERN
Needless to say, a step up pattern is one of the most important patterns to correct as quickly as possible. Copper supplementation is critical.
Dr. Paul Eck found that copper supplementation is needed for just a few situations on a hair mineral analysis. These include
1) fast or fast-mixed oxidation,
2) a low sodium/potassium ratio and,
3) even more so if the low sodium/potassium ratio is accompanied by a low calcium/magnesium ratio. A step up pattern includes all of these situations!
I would say that step-up pattern is associated with biounavailable copper in the body. (A low Na/K ratio is an indicator for biounavailable copper). it may also be associated with “amigo copper”. This is an oxide form of copper that is very irritating to the tissues, and can do oxidant damage.
Whatever is the truth about the copper situation, we find that giving bioavailable copper to the person is the key to turning around this hair analysis pattern. An adult with this pattern may need up to 10 or 12 mg of copper daily to alter the pattern.
We usually give the copper in two products, Limcomin and SBF from Endomet Labs. These are combination products that are designed for the imbalances that occur with the step-up pattern, so they work very well in these cases.
Copper is what is called a female mineral, meaning that it often gives a quality of softness and gentleness to a person, and it is needed more for women, in some ways. It appears that the step up pattern is a certain type of rigidity and “male” approach that is hard-driving, stubborn and does not give up easily. When the pattern is present, this approach to life is causing extreme and dangerous stress on the body.
Giving a lot of copper, along with the other nutrients required for this pattern, seems to help “soften” the pattern and eventually reverse it. This is an interesting corrective concept that works beautifully, in my experience. The copper may actually “soften” or feminize the person so that he, usually, is less stubborn and stuck in the pattern.
Iron. A step up pattern has a quality of stubbornness and strength about it that is strongly associated with excessive and biounavailable iron in the body. People with step up pattern may be called “ironheads”. This is not a complimentary term and refers to a quality of hardness, stubbornness, and perhaps a Type A personality. They can be “hard-ass” or “tight-ass” people. They are moving forward, but at another level are reversed and “losing altitude” fast.
Iron is an older ‘male’ mineral that is rather hard, strong but inflexible, and iron is a rather brittle metal. Iron accumulates in the amygdala and is associated with feelings of anger and rage. This is exactly the quality a person displays when in a step up pattern.
Copper and magnesium seem to act as iron antagonists with this pattern to help balance the person physically, mentally and emotionally. These minerals are critical to turn the pattern around.
Vampires. Some with this pattern are energy vampires. This is an interesting concept that is discussed in a separate article entitled Energetic Vampirism on this site.
Vitamins can kill with this pattern. Holistic doctors and naturopaths can and often do kill patients with step up pattern. They do this by giving them incorrect nutrients. In this case, these include B-complex vitamins, vitamins C and E, zinc and potassium. Giving thyroid or adrenal support can also worsen the situation.
All of the above supplements tend to increase the oxidation rate and lower copper, the opposite of what is needed in this situation.
A karmic or movement ending pattern. Step-up is called in acupuncture “stepping out of life”. So the pattern may be considered a type of ending of life or karmic ending pattern. It may also be said to mean “going out with a bang”. Other hair analysis patterns are related to death, but indicate going out with a wimper or just fading away (a very slow oxidation rate, for example or four lows pattern, in most cases.)
References: Dr. Larry Wilson
This pattern is not seen too often, mainly because the people with this pattern do not usually live long enough for us to correct it. Another name for the pattern is stepping out of life. The step up pattern is a combination of:
1. A fast or fast-mixed oxidation rate
2. A double low ratio pattern (Ca/Mg ratio less than about 4, and the Na/K ratio less than 2.5)
3. A visual pattern in which the first four or three macrominerals must appear like steps moving upward to the right. Hence the name step up pattern.
4. Four lows is not present. (If it is, the pattern has a different meaning that is explained below under the heading Step Up With Four Lows Pattern).
THE MEANING OF STEP UP PATTERN ON AN INITIAL MINERAL ANALYSIS
Components of the pattern. A fast oxidation pattern is associated with acute stress, emotional immaturity in an adult, inflammation and irritability. A low sodium/potassium ratio is associated with frustration, resentment, hostility, cardiac stress, blood sugar stress, malignancy, kidney stress and liver stress. A low calcium/magnesium ratio reinforces the low sodium/potassium ratio tendencies.
Usually a fast death pattern. This is what I call a fast death pattern. It is associated with a tendency for a heart attack, in particular, or perhaps a vascular accident such as a stroke.
It is also associated with arteriosclerosis, angina, cardiac arrythmias, and perhaps malignancy and diabetes.
It is an acute and chronic stress pattern and an inflammatory pattern. It is a running away pattern.
It is fast and reckless, the opposite of step down pattern, which is slow but sure.
Fortunately, a nutritional balancing program, especially if applied quickly, can easily turn the pattern around in most cases.
Step up pattern with four lows pattern. Step up with four lows pattern is actually a good pattern. It seems to indicate that a person is trying very hard to stay in this life. The person may be “running away from the tunnel of death, as best he or she can”.
Psychological meaning of step up pattern. A person with this pattern is moving in a dangerous direction and unable or usually unwilling to change direction and to make important life changes. He is determined, in other words, to proceed as he is going. He is also putting himself under tremendous stress, and burning out (low Na/K ratio doubled or reinforced by a low Ca/Mg ratio), and so he is in trouble.
It can indicate a futile attempt to stay in an egotistical pattern of pushing oneself hard or striving hard and “pushing through life” (a fast oxidation rate), when this attitude or response to life, or to a particular situation, just is not working. It is an intense striving pattern that is not producing results because it is not the appropriate response for the person at this time. Metaphorically, one might say it is a ‘hardening of the heart’ that is very dangerous. There is a need for love, perhaps more self-love, and surrender.
The pattern may be due mainly to biochemical imbalances, especially a need for copper. In other cases, psychological factors play a greater role. (Copper softens a person and is a more feminine mineral.)
It may also be called a stuck in fast oxidation pattern. Visually, the pattern appears like a person running headlong into a wall, represented by the elevated potassium level on the right of the four macrominerals on the graph.
A type of deep conflict pattern. A conflict pattern means that a clash is occurring between two powerful, but opposing forces. In this case, one of the forces at work on the person is a fast oxidation rate. This is a more aggressive, pushing forward, hard-driving, and more ‘male’ approach to life.
However, this tendency is in conflict with or opposed by a double low ratio pattern. The latter is a severe weakness, depleted-of-energy, reversed pattern. The person is pushing ahead on one hand, but the gearshift is in reverse, in a way, so it is not working at all! Perhaps it is more like having one foot on the gas pedal of the car, and the other on the brake pedal. This is very wearing on the engine.
The person is trying to push ahead at full speed, but the direction is blocked, like having the brake on or the car is pushing against a solid wall or rock. As a result, the body is becoming very weak and depleted.
Often a fatal stalled transition pattern. A person with step up pattern needs to slow down and transition from fast to slow oxidation, and in this sense to follow a different path. If this does not occur quickly, often one will die.
What blocks this transition is often a need for a lot of copper, although emotional factors could also be in play.
Who has the pattern? The step up pattern is most often seen in:
- More often in men, so far, though certainly not always.
- Perhaps a less emotionally mature person.
- A person who needs to be more “spiritual” in some fashion and may not know how to do it, so he is just doing things as best he can, but not well enough.
- One who is ready to die, in a way, rather than change. We sometimes call this tendency the “I’d rather die” pattern. One is so stuck in the ego in some way that the body is sacrificed, usually with a heart attack, stroke, cardiomyopathy or other cardiovascular accident or catastrophe.
- A person who is under some type of stress that he cannot cope with properly.
- The person may be angry. This is associated with iron toxicity and step up is usually an iron personality type to some degree, at least. The person is usually very smart, somewhat bitter and cynical, and rather rigid underneath, even if this is not apparent.
- The pattern can occur in a child, usually but not always a male child. Here it is less of a death pattern. The child is usually able to change the pattern into slow oxidation, which is a new direction in life, and a new way of coping with life. This, by the way, is the solution to this pattern.
The other outcome may be called a change of heart. When this occurs, a person gives up their dreams, or perhaps their ego stubbornness, and changes direction. Often, in these cases, the person moves into a four lows pattern, which is a special type of hiding or giving up pattern.
We know this because when one retraces and heals with a development program, some with a four lows pattern temporarily move into a step up pattern when they leave four lows. The step up pattern usually is mild and does not last long, and the person continues to retrace and move into other patterns.
CORRECTION, AND THE RELATION OF COPPER AND IRON TO THIS PATTERN
Needless to say, a step up pattern is one of the most important patterns to correct as quickly as possible. Copper supplementation is critical.
Dr. Paul Eck found that copper supplementation is needed for just a few situations on a hair mineral analysis. These include
1) fast or fast-mixed oxidation,
2) a low sodium/potassium ratio and,
3) even more so if the low sodium/potassium ratio is accompanied by a low calcium/magnesium ratio. A step up pattern includes all of these situations!
I would say that step-up pattern is associated with biounavailable copper in the body. (A low Na/K ratio is an indicator for biounavailable copper). it may also be associated with “amigo copper”. This is an oxide form of copper that is very irritating to the tissues, and can do oxidant damage.
Whatever is the truth about the copper situation, we find that giving bioavailable copper to the person is the key to turning around this hair analysis pattern. An adult with this pattern may need up to 10 or 12 mg of copper daily to alter the pattern.
We usually give the copper in two products, Limcomin and SBF from Endomet Labs. These are combination products that are designed for the imbalances that occur with the step-up pattern, so they work very well in these cases.
Copper is what is called a female mineral, meaning that it often gives a quality of softness and gentleness to a person, and it is needed more for women, in some ways. It appears that the step up pattern is a certain type of rigidity and “male” approach that is hard-driving, stubborn and does not give up easily. When the pattern is present, this approach to life is causing extreme and dangerous stress on the body.
Giving a lot of copper, along with the other nutrients required for this pattern, seems to help “soften” the pattern and eventually reverse it. This is an interesting corrective concept that works beautifully, in my experience. The copper may actually “soften” or feminize the person so that he, usually, is less stubborn and stuck in the pattern.
Iron. A step up pattern has a quality of stubbornness and strength about it that is strongly associated with excessive and biounavailable iron in the body. People with step up pattern may be called “ironheads”. This is not a complimentary term and refers to a quality of hardness, stubbornness, and perhaps a Type A personality. They can be “hard-ass” or “tight-ass” people. They are moving forward, but at another level are reversed and “losing altitude” fast.
Iron is an older ‘male’ mineral that is rather hard, strong but inflexible, and iron is a rather brittle metal. Iron accumulates in the amygdala and is associated with feelings of anger and rage. This is exactly the quality a person displays when in a step up pattern.
Copper and magnesium seem to act as iron antagonists with this pattern to help balance the person physically, mentally and emotionally. These minerals are critical to turn the pattern around.
Vampires. Some with this pattern are energy vampires. This is an interesting concept that is discussed in a separate article entitled Energetic Vampirism on this site.
Vitamins can kill with this pattern. Holistic doctors and naturopaths can and often do kill patients with step up pattern. They do this by giving them incorrect nutrients. In this case, these include B-complex vitamins, vitamins C and E, zinc and potassium. Giving thyroid or adrenal support can also worsen the situation.
All of the above supplements tend to increase the oxidation rate and lower copper, the opposite of what is needed in this situation.
A karmic or movement ending pattern. Step-up is called in acupuncture “stepping out of life”. So the pattern may be considered a type of ending of life or karmic ending pattern. It may also be said to mean “going out with a bang”. Other hair analysis patterns are related to death, but indicate going out with a wimper or just fading away (a very slow oxidation rate, for example or four lows pattern, in most cases.)
References: Dr. Larry Wilson