HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS
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.
• Specific diet and supplement recommendations (take away the guessing)
• Mineral deficiencies and imbalances
• Heavy metal toxicity
• Metabolic type (rate)
• Stress and its effect on energy and health
• Screening for disease trends (prevention and early detection)
• Cellular energy levels
• Insight into the biochemistry of most diseases
Many factors contribute to mineral deficiencies and imbalances. We can mention some of them:
• Stress – It is a part of our everyday lives. It is a normal reaction the body has when changes occur. Stress is the body’s way of responding to rigorous demands, the demands can be physically, mentally, but stress can occur from both good and bad life experiences. Usually, this reaction is associated with minerals depletion from the body, most notably magnesium and zinc and another factor is adrenal strain, if the adrenals are being put under too much stress, then this can cause mineral shifts to happen.
• Medications – A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. They can deplete the body stores of nutrient minerals and/or increase the levels of toxic metals. These medications include antibiotics, diuretics, antacids, aspirin and oral contraceptives etc.
• Toxic Metals and Chemicals – they can replace minerals in enzyme binding sites and interfere with mineral absorption. Toxic metals are deposited in in our body’s tissues and organs, high levels of dangerous toxic metals can lead to a range of serious health conditions for adults and children including developmental and neurological damage. Many of the heavy metals, such as zinc, copper, chromium, iron and manganese, are essential to body function in very small amounts. But, if these metals accumulate in the body in concentrations sufficient to cause poisoning, then serious damage may occur. The heavy metals most commonly associated with poisoning of humans are lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. diuretics, antacids, aspirin and oral contraceptives.
• Chronic viral and bacterial infections – An infection is the invasion of an organism’s body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce. They are subtle stressors on the body, depleting minerals. Many suffer from Gut dysbiosis, Lyme and many other chronic infections.
• Drinking Water – Tap water is not safe due to added chlorine, aluminium, fluoride and sometimes cooper, which cause toxicity or displace other minerals.
• Unhealthy lifestyles – Malnutrition, unhealthy diet, smoking, alcohol consuming, drug abuse, stress and so on, are the presentations of unhealthy life style that they are used as dominant form of lifestyle. Many individuals do not get enough sleep, don’t exercise enough or have other unhealthy lifestyle habits. All these factors have a strongly influence in the balance of minerals in our body.
• Toxic Food Supply – Our food and soils are depleted of minerals, which is why everyone needs nutritional supplements. Hybrid crops , superphosphate fertilizers, refined foods, pesticides, food additives and more, all contribute to a nutritionally depleted and toxic food supply.
Heavy Metal Toxicity and Mineral Deficiency have been linked to many degenerative diseases like Autism, Alzheimer’s Disease, Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, and more.
| Adrenal Dysfunction | Blood Sugar Imbalances |
| Allergies | Brain Fog |
| ADHD | Chronic Fatigue |
| Anemia | Concentration Problems |
| Anxiety | Digestive Disturbances |
| Autoimmune Disorders | Depression |
| Arteriosclerosis | Food Intolerances |
| Attention Deficit Syndrome | Fibromyalgia |
| Hair Loss | Fluctuating Energy Levels |
| Headaches & Migraines | Kidney stones |
| Heart Problems | Muscle Weakness |
| Hyperactivity | Osteoporosis |
| Hypertension ( high blood pressure) | Skin Conditions |
| Irritability | Thyroid Issues |
| Infertility | Weight Problems |
| Insomnia |
1. Metabolic Rate:
The metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and fats into energy is referred to as oxidation. There are three different types of oxidation rates which can be measured in the hair mineral test – fast, slow and mixed oxidation. If carbohydrates and amino acids are oxidized too slowly (‘’slow oxidation’’) in one cycle or too quickly in other cycle (‘’fast oxidation’’), energy production is reduced. The most common symptoms of a fast or slow oxidative rate are fatigue, emotional problems, lowered resistance to infections, a low body temperature, gall bladder or liver problems and being over or under weight. While, an individual with mixed oxidation metabolises food at a rate that fluctuates between slow and fast oxidation experiencing symptoms of both.
2. Toxic metal detection – toxic metals are unavoidable in the environment we live in, but we also consume toxic metals through certain food and drink sources. Frequent stress and adrenal insufficiency also makes us more susceptible to toxic metal build up and impairs the detoxification process of toxic metals.
3. Copper toxicity (direct or hidden) – copper is the most common mineral to be in excess, because of the way it builds up in the body from chronic stress. Copper is an essential mineral, and when it’s balanced in the body it does not create any health problems, but when there are excessive amounts in the body and copper is returned in toxic form (copper toxicity). This mineral imbalance is associated with many mental health symptoms and conditions, because it has a big impact on brain chemistry and neurotransmitter function.
4. Adrenal fatigue – The adrenal glands are two small glands which sit above the kidneys. Adrenal fatigue is a huge problem that affects people without them knowing. The adrenals are the stress response organs and modern day humans experience a lot of repetitive daily stress which has a big impact on the adrenals. Adrenal fatigue is associated with many mental and physical health conditions. The hair mineral test is capable of analysing adrenal sufficiency levels from certain mineral readings and mineral ratio readings. This test will also be able to detect copper and toxic metal levels in body tissue, having adrenal insufficiency issues is regularly associated with copper toxicity (hidden/direct) and some form of toxic metal accumulation especially mercury and aluminium.
5. Suggestive markers of – thyroid function, glucose metabolism and sensitivity, immune system activity, liver and kidney stress, autonomic state (sympathetic dominant or unhealthy parasympathetic dominant), protein synthesis, digestion ability and inflammation/inflammatory responses.
6. Autonomic nervous system assessment:
A properly performed hair mineral test can assess the guide the correction of the activity of the autonomic nervous system. Problems with this nervous system are very widespread today, and can cause hundreds of symptoms from digestive disturbance and inability to eliminate toxic metals, to sleep disturbances, blood sugar problems etc.
The autonomic system has two divisions-sympathetic and parasympathetic. The sympathetic nervous system is called the fight-or-flight system, it activates the brain, muscles, thyroid and adrenal glands, heart rate is increased and also muscle strength. The sympathetic system is activated when the body is under stress so it can cope accordingly. When an individual is more mentally and physically active, he/she will be in more of a sympathetic state.
The parasympathetic nervous system restores energy and controls body process during ordinary situations, and it is nurturing and restful for the body. The parasympathetic system enhances digestion and stimulates the digestion tract to process food and eliminate waste. When an individual is sleeping, relaxing eating or resting they will be in more of a parasympathetic state. The body balances these two systems, when they are needed and minerals which are associated with the autonomic system.
7. Psychological/emotional assessment:
One of the most exciting uses of the hair mineral analysis is the assessment of causes for conditions such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, attention deficit, brain fog, autism, schizophrenia, dementia, bipolar disorder etc.
8. Immune System:
The immune system is the set of tissues which work together to resist infections. The immune mechanisms help an organism identify a pathogen, and neutralize its threat. The immune system can detect a difference between the body’s own healthy cells or tissues, and ‘foreign’ cells.
It is a host defense system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. The immune system has different aspects such as the health of white blood cells, the digestive tract, cell membranes, antioxidant nutrients and the autonomic balance. A hair mineral test between zinc, copper levels and the zinc/copper ratio, sodium/potassium level give us an important information in connection with immune system activity.
Step 1. Wash your Hair
Before cutting the hair sample, wash your hair with a baby shampoo. Do not use dandruff shampoos as they often contain minerals which may alter the test results. Avoid other products such as hair gel, hair cream , hair spray or others until after you have cut the hair sample.
Step 2. After washing your hair, wait at least 4 hours to cut the sample, but no longer than 24 hours. Avoid any activity which will cause you to sweat excessively before cutting your sample, as this may affect the hair analysis result.
Step 3. Cut a hair sample
Please, follow this instructions: Using clean scissors, cut hair as close to the scalp as possible.
For Short hair (1-1.5inches in length) = (2.5- 3.8 cm)
For Long hair (1.5-2 inches in length) = ( 5cm )
You should take at least one Full Tablespoon of hair from the back of your neck as close to the scalp as possible.
Step 4. Place the hair in a clean paper envelope and write your name, age and sex.
Do not place hair samples in plastic baggies, tin foil or stapled/taped to the scale or forms.
Step 5. Mail your hair sample, Hair Submission Form and Payment too.
• The hair mineral analysis-sampling procedure is easy, you don’t have to go anywhere to get this carried out, you can do it at home.
• After a hair samples for each person is taken, send them to the nutritional analysis laboratory (ARL Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona) in the relevant address that will be sent to you by email. Just fill out your details in the request form. After the request form and sample are returned to the lab, it normally takes up to 2 weeks to process and return the results to you. The tests are suitable for use by adults and children too.
2. Graph interpretation and analysis report, associated by relevant recommendations regarding the balancing program.
3. Support via email from a practitioner.
All of this is included in the price of the test.
FOOD INTOLERANCE AND ALLERGY
We all want to know what foods we should avoid, especially when it comes to eating something that could result in a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. Food intolerance testing systems can offer us such an opportunity.
Foods commonly associated with food intolerance include : milk, gluten, lactose, food colorings and preservatives , salicilate ,sulphites, caffeine, fructose etc.
Food intolerances are caused by the partial or complete absence of activity of the enzymes responsible for breaking down or absorbing the food elements. These deficiencies are often innate. However they can sometimes be diet-related or can arise due to illness.
Common symptoms of food intolerance include:
1. Bloating
2. Excess gas
3. Stomach pain
4. Diarrhea
5. Migraine
6. Headaches
7. A runny nose
While a Food allergy results from an immune system reaction to a specific food, food intolerances usually involve the digestive system , not the immune system.
The symptoms of a food allergy almost always develop a few seconds or minutes after eating the food.
• tingling or itching in the mouth.
• a raised, itchy red rash (hives)
• swelling of the face, mouth , throat or other areas of the body.
Cow’s milk – An allergy to cow’s milk is most often seen in babies and young children, especially when they have been exposed to cow’s milk protein before they are six months old.
Eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, shellfish, wheat, soy, fish etc.
Simply take 4–5 hair strands from your scalp,
For Short hair (1-1.5inches in length) = (2.5- 3.8 cm)
For Long hair (1.5-2 inches in length) = ( 5cm )
Please, place them into a small paper envelope, after put them in an envelope along with a completed form (instructions are emailed post order).
Food intolerances can have a marked impact on our health and wellbeing. This test can help to determine the cause of food allergy/intolerance. Also, this test find the cause of the problem and help people to improve their life.
NOTE:
‘’Nutritional Balancing science’’ is holistic in the sense that it is not about diagnosing or treating any particular disease but utilizes hair mineral testing to design nutrition, supplement and lifestyle programs to improve the body’s energy level, reduce stress, rest the sympathetic nervous system and balance the oxidation rate of the body.
Denisa Shoshi is not a medical doctor. She operates as an “Nutritional consultant” only. Nothing on this site is intended to discourage anyone from seeking or following the advice of a medical doctor.
Our goal is to help people improve and maintain their health and wellbeing through diet and nutrition. This program is focused largely on promoting energy, rebuilding ideal mineral levels in the body, and enhancing metabolism and digestion. This is done with simple combinations of foods, avoidance of specific foods, and emphasizing the importance of vegetables and animal protein.
Nutritional balancing program supplements are recommended to each individual based solely upon the information gathered from an initial hair tissue mineral analysis test report.