Hair Mineral Analaysis

Short Description

When you don't feel ill exactly, but know that something is not right, and every test your doctor performs is ‘normal’, consider having a simple hair analysis performed. Just a few grams of your hair can be analysed to find out if element imbalances or toxicity may be the root cause of your health problems.

Long Description: Why Hair Analysis?

Hair analysis is an accurate, low cost and non-invasive method of determining your body’s level of essential mineral elements as well as toxic burden. With the enormous amounts of toxic metal in the environment and the widespread nutrient mineral insufficiencies of the modern western diet, assessing patients for element imbalances and excesses has become an increasingly important tool in the diagnosis of chronic illness. Hair Analysis provides your healthcare provider with important insight into treatment strategies for conditions ranging from depression and behavior disorders to cardiovascular and neurological illnesses. Practitioners have found Hair Analysis extremely useful in cases where no other cause was readily apparent for an illness or disease. Accordingly, Hair Analysis has become one of the most rapidly advancing fields in Functional Medicine testing, with ample research during the past three decades validating and suggesting that the relationship between hair element concentrations and human health is a complex process related to exposure, absorption, and tissue distribution of essential as well as toxic elements. Studies of the relationship of mineral status and behavioral disorders, cardiovascular disease, and cancer offer exciting possibilities–continuing to expand the range of applications for Hair Analysis.

Nutritional Status
Nutrient elements, including magnesium, chromium, zinc, copper and selenium, serve a variety of metabolic functions, are critical for hundreds of important enzymes and are also essential for the normal function of vitamins. As cellular regulators, they are involved in nerve transmission, maintenance of cell membrane permeability, and regulation of osmotic pressure, water balance, and acid-base equilibrium. Deficiencies among essential elements can lead to symptomatic problems. For example, low manganese can cause back and joint problems, allergies. Low magnesium can result in cardiovascular problems,muscular spasms and depression. Various circumstances may result in inadequate status of nutritional elements: insufficient intake, poor digestion, poor absorption, and competitive inhibition by toxic elements. Hair elemental analysis is aninvaluable and inexpensive screen for physiological excess, deficiency or mal-distribution of elements. Element imbalances are linked to a wide range of clinical conditions like: fatigue, headaches, malnutrition , depression, hypoglycemia, aggressive behaviour, learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, diabetes and many other chronic and degenerative diseases.

Toxic burden
A Hair test also measures toxic elements in your body. We are all exposed to toxic elements such as cigarette smoke (cadmium), antiperspirants & antacids (aluminum), tap water in some areas (lead), tooth fillings & fish (mercury) and pesticides (arsenic), etc. Toxic elements accumulate with excessive or continual exposure or if the body’s detoxifying centers are overburdened and not coping ell with toxins.

For example, excess mercury can lead to headache, tremor, poor mental concentration and excess aluminum has been linked with Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, hair is the tissue of choice for detection of body burden and past exposure to elements such as arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, lead and mercury.

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