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Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
We all want a healthy life with as few problems as possible. But in our daily lives ,we unfortunately face health problems and often wonder why they are happening and what their real cause is. Through this new testing method we have discovered that many diseases are the result of imbalance of minerals in our bodies. Here we can mention some of them such as: Adrenal fatigue, thyroid disorders, hormonal imbalance, mood disorders, anxiety, depression, insomnia, immune system, loss of appetite etc. Therefore we can say that a mineral balance would help our body grow, develop and stay healthy.
What is Nutritional Balancing?
This method of testing has been used for at least 100 years worldwide. Nutritional Balancing (NB) is a nutrition program that heals many ailments naturally, without drugs. By following this path, healing of the body and development of the mind occur. One of the most ancient and excellent ways to measure vitality or life force is to assess the balance of the body chemistry.
Nutritional Balancing is a total healing system which means it makes use of all of Western medical science, plus many principles of Eastern healing sciences as well. The creator, Dr. Paul Eck, that was a very talented physician began researching nutrition and health at a very young age. He applied all of his knowledge of the stress theory of disease, metabolic typing, mineral bioavailability and much more based on results of experimenting with the hair mineral analysis.
Dr. Paul Eck discovered basic ways to do whole system healing, which is the only way to heal the body at the deepest levels. Through of this new science, he achieved a way to balance body chemistry correctly and continuously, allowing the body to slowly rebuild and restore its enzyme systems.
Prevention of many diseases through Hair Tissue Analysis:
Why hair? Hair accumulates toxic metals because hair is an excretory tissue. This means that anything that goes into the hair will be removed from the body. So the body often unloads poisons by shunting them into the hair and skin.
The hair mineral test is also unique in that it is a biopsy type of test that gives a description of the inside of the body cells. A biopsy is an analysis of a body tissue. The test measures the levels of 20 or more minerals and toxic metals in hair. It is considered a standard test used around the world for the biological monitoring of trace elements and toxic metals.
The importance of minerals and their role in our body:
Minerals are involved in nearly every metabolic process in the body-which means they are absolutely necessary for growth and development. Minerals are essential to the human body, but unlike vitamins, minerals cannot be made by the body and must be obtained from the environment through our nutrition. In fact minerals are required to utilize vitamins and enzymes properly.
Vitamins and minerals are used, not just to replace deficiencies, but to re-balance the body’s chemistry. Hair analysis is used to determine mineral levels and has the added advantage of allowing us to see the actual cellular effects the minerals have on the body because hair is a body tissue. Nutritional balancing does not treat specific illnesses; it treats a body weakened by denatured foods and environmental toxins.
Minerals help your body grow, develop, and stay healthy. The body uses minerals to perform many different functions from building strong bones to transmitting nerve impulses. Some minerals are even used to make hormones or maintain a normal heartbeat.
The three groups of elements tested are:
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Macrominerals ( these include calcium, magnesium ,sodium, potassium,phosphorus, sulphur).
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Trace minerals ( these include iron, zinc,copper,manganese, selenium, chromium, cobalt, molybdenum, lithium and perhaps others.)
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Toxic minerals (these include lead, mercury,cadmium, arsenic,aluminium and nickel)
Diseases and Healing Process:
It is important to understand that the disease process basically involves: 1) Slowing of the oxidation rate; 2) Reduced oxygenation and hydration of the tissues; 3) Clogging of the system with toxins of all kinds; and 4) ‘Rusting’ or build up of oxides in the body. The oxides cause oxidant damage.
Healing is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased, damaged or unvitalized organisms.
Healing involves: 1) Removing the oxides, infections and other toxins; 2) Restoring the body’s oxidation reactions; 3) Restoring oxygenation and hydration; and 4) Balancing the oxidation rate. Balancing the oxidation rate is often slow and difficult because it requires restoring the activity of millions of enzymes throughout the body.
Why is hair analysis so important compared to other test in blood, urine etc?
Whilst blood tests will always be valuable in determining a number of parameters, they are incapable of providing the information that one can interpret from a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis. The reasons for this are:
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Mineral levels in the blood are ten times less than they are in the tissues, making measurement more difficult.
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The body maintains blood levels within very narrow parameters at the expense of cellular health. This means that problems will not show up in the blood until they have reached a critical stage of development, perhaps years after their potential detection through hair analysis.
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Toxic metals are easier to detect in the hair than in the blood. They are not found in high concentrations in the blood, unless the test is performed immediately after an acute exposure. Most toxic metals accumulate in the soft tissues, including the hair, as the body works to move them to locations where they will do less damage.
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