Hair Analysis - Hair Mineral Analysis
Hair analysis is an extremely useful method of assessing mineral balance in the body, as well as monitoring levels of toxic metals, such as lead and mercury. It involves burning a sample of hair and analyzing the ash, using spectra-photometry.
The importance of this procedure, to multiple allergy sufferers, cannot be over-emphasized. Clinical ecologists have found that attention to underlying deficiencies and toxicities pays big dividends in health improvement and in resurgence of vitality in the immune system.
Mineral deficiency and toxicity in people is very common. It is a classic example of how our modern food sources cannot supply the body adequately with the proper mineral nutrients it needs. Remember, the body is basically a chemical factory. Without the right ingredients, it simply cannot produce the necessary chemical reactions for proper operation.
Hair contains all the minerals present in the body and, in most cases, reflects the quantity of these elements in your tissues. Analysis of this information provides a wealth of information on how efficiently your body is working and its nutritional status. A blood test will only give information about your mineral levels at the time the test is taken.
For instance, if you’ve just eaten a banana a blood test may indicate a high potassium level, even though you actually need a potassium supplement. Hair analysis reflects your body’s storage of potassium over a period of time, not what you ate that day, or even that week. Likewise, urine tests measure what is being excreted from your body, which is not necessarily what has been absorbed.
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