IMPORTANT MINERAL FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW

• Women's pre-menstrual headaches are often caused by too much copper in their system.
• Arthritis pain can be caused by lead cadmium, or mercury poisoning.
• Eating the wrong diet can contribute to conditions such as constipation, diverticulosis, and even heart disease.
• Taking too much of any one vitamin or mineral can be harmful.
• Too much vitamin C can actually make an infection worse, in certain metabolic types.
• Hair analysis is the most efficient means of determining exactly what vitamins and minerals you do need.
• Adolescent acne can be caused by lead, or copper poisoning, as well as a zinc deficiency.
• Approximately 80% of our population locks the necessary enzymes and natural stomach acids to digest their food.
• Hyperactive children often have too much lead in their systems.
• Obesity is frequently caused by chronic blood sugar problems.
• Mercury toxicity in the mother's system can kill her unborn child.
• Magnesium supplements may prevent brain damage of alcoholics.
• The male prostate gland contains more zinc than any other organ in the body. Because of this, adequate zinc levels are important for male potency.
• Diuretics, often prescribed for patients with high blood pressure and heart trouble, can decrease your potassium supply.
• High levels of copper and iron in the body tissue can cause migraine headaches, and even schizophrenia.
• Adequate zinc intake helps to regulate blood sugar levels.
• Lead toxicity is linked to multiple sclerosis.
• Zinc deficiency can retard bone development and produce malformed sex organs.
• Doctors often diagnose heart attacks by the amount of the mineral manganese in the body.
• Chromium, magnesium, manganese and vitamin B6 deficiency are related to diabetes.
• Vitamin C, the B complex, zinc and manganese are being used to treat schizophrenia.
• Vitamin B2, folic acid, vitamin E, zinc and chromium are important for users of birth control pills.
• Magnesium deficiency is related to epilepsy, leukemia, heart disease and kidney disorders.
• As many as 250,000 women in the U.S. or any given time may be suffering from iron deficiency anemia.
• Beryllium, lead, cadmium, nickel and arsenic poisoning can cause cancer.
• The mineral lithium is being used to alleviate many of the problems associated with manic depressive illness.

WHAT IS A TISSUE MINERAL ANALYSIS?

Trace mineral analysis is a test which measures the mineral content of your hair. Mineral content of the hair reflects the mineral content of the body's tissues. If a mineral deficiency or excess exists in the hair, it usually indicates a mineral deficiency or excess within the body, or bio-unavailability.

Examples: If your hair reveals elevated calcium level two or three times normal, then your calcium level within the body may be elevated also. If this is the case, a strong tendency exists for arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries due to calcium plaques).

If your calcium level is low, then a tendency exists toward osteoporosis (demineralization of bone), increased tendency to bone fractures, dental caries, periodontal disease, muscle cramps, etc.

Various mineral imbalances, as revealed by hair analysis frequently lead to metabolic dysfunctions before any symptoms become manifest.

How can you use Hair Trace Mineral Analysis to find out more specific answers for your health concerns?

Increasingly, more and more of our modern research are discovering that many of the symptoms (called diseases) listed below are caused by toxicity or deficiency of trace minerals in your body:

And although there is not yet a consensus agreement between medical professionals as to the direct relationship between toxic chemicals and many of our most terrible diseases, there certainly is a lot of evidence that toxicity or deficiency complicates and in many cases aggravates the most difficult of health problems.

Understanding your mineral imbalances is the first step to optimum health and happiness!

Your Hair Analysis Kit and detailed reports will include the following:

• Non-invasive, simple & cheap.
• The usefulness of hair mineral analysis is highly dependent on the quality of interpretation. There is considerable controversy over the best way to interpret hair analysis. Hair analysis readings should not be interpreted like a blood test. Hair results should be viewed cautiously and results not viewed as certainties. The traditional view has been that raised hair levels of a particular mineral indicate elevated tissue levels, although there is now some evidence that (in many cases) raised hair levels may indicate increased excretion and depleted tissue levels. The discussion printouts that come with an analysis from laboratories are typically based on the traditional interpretation.
• Gives a good indication of some toxic metal levels while blood levels may be in the normal range. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses hair mineral analysis for this purpose. Provoked urine heavy metal tests are recommended by The American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology as the present ideal method for testing heavy metals.
• Provides direction for further diagnostic tests which may not have been performed otherwise.
• Gives some indication of nutrient mineral status. The following nutrient minerals provide the most meaningful assays: Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu, Na, K, S, Mn, Fe, Se & P
• May suggest patterns of malabsorption.
• Mineral levels can be affected by contaminants. (eg. shampoos/conditioners, hair dyes, air/water pollution, sweat) Using johnson's baby shampoo for several weeks before submitting a hair sample helps to minimize exogenous contamination from shampoos.
• Abnormal hair concentrations of nutrient minerals may need to be confirmed by other testing methods.
• The elements which have the least, if any, value are: Al, Be, Bi, Pt, Th, Tl, U, Ag, Sn, Ti, V, B, I, Ge, Rb, & Zr
• Hair can reflect mineral excretion. (e.g. 1: individuals with impaired metal excretion, such as those with autism, may display low hair mercury levels despite having high tissue levels. This is because hair levels reflect mercury excretion rather than total mercury status. e.g. 2: after treating a copper excess with copper antagonists such as zinc and vitamin C, hair copper may rise)
• Hair mineral analysis does not take into account variations in hair growth rates. (eg. in severe zinc deficiency hair may stop growing, with testing revealing adequate hair levels)