WHY USE HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS OVER OTHER TESTING METHODS?
Hair testing gives a unique cellular reading of the mineral levels. Metabolic activity takes place in the cells and typical tests such as blood and urine rarely analyze the cells themselves. While blood test have their own merit they do not reveal the same information as hair tests.
The reasons for this are the following:
-Hair is a stable material for biopsy and can be handled more easily without its reading being altered or compromised.
-For the quality of readings it gives, hair testing is extremely cost effective it is also a very easy convenient way to take a sample for biopsy and can be done easily from home.
-Blood tests can fluctuate on an hourly basis depending on what one has ingested, the time of day and variety of other factors (such as exercise and stress levels).
-Minerals are always displaced from the tissues to maintain blood levels. This means that deficiencies or excesses often show up earlier in the hair than in the blood.
-Blood levels of minerals vary very little, while hair values may vary 10-fold, providing information not available from the blood. This provides much deeper insight into what is actually happening on a cellular level.
-Hair testing is much more effective for revealing toxic metals which rarely stay in the blood for long. They accumulate in the hair where an accurate reading can be made They are only found in significantly high concentrations in the blood after an acute exposure.
-ARE SUPPLEMENTS NECESSARY?
Beyond just necessary, a carefully and individually tailored supplement program is absolutely vital.
Some of the main reasons for this are as follows:
-Soil depletion has seriously reduced the nutrient content of our food supply
-Hybrid crops provide lower-nutrient food.These are used everywhere today, even on organic farms. They yield more food per acre, but the crops all have a much lower nutrient content than those grown 100 years ago.
-Modern fertilizers do not supply enough trace elements.
-Modern use of chemical pesticides and herbicides all over the world make food somewhat toxic, and damage the soil microorganisms. Both of these also reduce the nutrition and quality of the crops. Long-distance transportation of many foods diminishes their nutritional content.
-Food processing often drastically reduces the nutrient content of common foods such as wheat flour, rice, dairy products and others.
-Pasteurization and homogenization of dairy products drastically reduces the bio-availability of calcium, phosphorus and some proteins in milk and other dairy products.
-Food additives often further deplete nutrients.
-Weak digestion and poor eating habits impair the absorption of nutrients.
-Stressful and hurried lifestyles impair digestion and use up more nutrients.
-Chronic and acute infections and common illnesses also deplete nutrient and increase nutritional needs.
-Almost all babies are born with nutritional deficiencies today.
-The increased use of vaccines and medical drugs can drastically deplete a person’s nutrition.
-Toxic chemicals and toxic metals in the air, water and elsewhere also deplete nutrients and increase the need for nutrition to combat them.
-Some medical procedures also drastically deplete nutrients.
-Special life situations require extra nutrition, such as:
-All babies, children, the elderly and all athletes.
-Anyone born with a birth defect may need additional nutrients.
-Anyone who is ill, particularly those with a chronic illness.
-Pregnant and lactating women.
-Anyone who uses alcohol, refined sugar or recreational drugs such as marijuana.
-Anyone following a vegetarian or other restricted diet for any reason such as weight loss or anything else.
-Anyone under extra stress due to financial issues, a difficult job or marriage, or for any other reason.
Combine all these different groups together and you're talking about most people! Yet few health professionals are taught that all of these situations require extra nutrients beyond that which is available from only the highest quality food, eaten in a healthful manner.
Supplements can be used by everyone to protect against disease, eliminate states of deficiency, prevent future illness, and balance the body chemistry.
The standard nutritional standards set by governments around the world are much too low and also recommended with no consideration for the unique needs of every different individual.
Peoples nutritional requirements vary greatly depending on many factors including heredity, age, lifestyle, temperament, occupation, stress levels and illnesses. Furthermore additional factors such as metabolic type, mineral ratios, toxic metals and others also define nutritional needs.
Price of supplements:
On average 7 to 10 supplements are needed on the program.
For an adult, the cost of the supplementation for the program is usually about $150.00 to $220.00 per month if supplements are taken three times daily which is optimal.
Supplements usually cost about $100.00 to $160.00 monthly if you take them twice daily.
This is okay and one will also benefit greatly, although progress will be slower than if the supplements are taken three times a day. The supplement costs assume that one takes just the main supplements.
Each persons supplement program will vary as we all have individual nutritional needs that differ. These vary according to heredity, age, lifestyle, temperament, occupation, stress levels and illnesses.They are also majorly determined by the metabolic type, mineral levels, mineral ratios and the presence of toxic metals that will be observed on the hair mineral analysis.
-WHEN WILL I START TO SEE A DIFFERENCE IN HEALTH WHEN FOLLOWING THE PROGRAM?
This will depend on the individual. Many people have advanced underlying issues such as latent or sub-clinical cancer and other conditions which the body will prioritize on healing or clearing itself of first, for this reason the most obvious symptoms are sometimes the ones that will resolve themselves last.
This does not mean that healing is not happening, on the contrary, the body is in fact focusing on what is most urgent with regards to health.