Benefits of Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
The Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis I work with is a screening test that is non-invasive, relatively inexpensive and accurate. It shows the levels of 16 minerals and 5 toxic metals. Minerals...
Reasons to Use Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
There are many ways to assess nutritional status including symptom questionnaires, iridology, kinesiology, diet sheets, computer analyses, blood tests, etc. Why use a controversial tool such as...
Why I Believe in Whole-System Healing
I’m truly passionate about how a whole-system approach makes deep healing possible. First, let’s look at what isn’t a whole-system approach. Conventional doctors and even many alternative...
Hair Analysis Protocol
We are often asked how to assure the best possible results with Mineral-Nutritional balancing programs and why some health care professionals achieve much better results than others. The most common...
Energy and Vitality Through Mineral-Nutritional Balancing
Mineral-Nutritional Balancing is based on the research of Dr. Paul Eck. His main discoveries were the result of experimenting with Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (hair biopsy). Dr. Paul Eck was a...
How Long to Get Well?
The speed of response to a nutrition program varies dramatically. A nutritional 'quick-fix' may relieve symptoms in 10 minutes. Other cases require five years or more of a full nutrition program....
Fatigue/Burnout
Fatigue is one of the most common complaints reported in doctor's offices today. What most people do not realize is that fatigue is not just an isolated symptom that should be treated like another...
Dr. Eck on Minerals: Nature’s Palette of Life
Minerals are the principal energy-producing components of the human body. It is the relationships between the minerals in your tissues that help determine your physical and emotional destiny....
Oxidation Types
Metabolic typing is a central concept in hair analysis interpretation and the science of nutritional balancing. The term 'oxidation types' originated with Dr. George Watson, PhD, a researcher at...
Energy: Energy, Stress and Burnout
Everything in your life is dependent on energy. Energy is the source of your physical and mental power. It is not a coincidence that the people at the top in any field are generally the ones with...
Sleep
A very important lifestyle factor we often overlook in nutritional balancing is the vital importance of rest and sleep. Medical research confirms that adequate sleep is necessary to keep your heart,...
Energy: Thyroid Gland and Adrenal Glands
The thyroid gland and the adrenal glands are the main energy producing glands in the body, supplying the body with more than 98% of its energy. If you did not have these glands, you probably would...
Energy: Oxidation Rate
When your body is chronically fatigued, one of two things happens. You may use up your minerals too quickly until you develop deficiencies. This is what happens in fast oxidation.1 The second...
Copper Imbalance
Introduction Copper is one of the most commonly-encountered imbalances that we find on tissue mineral analysis tests. Many of the most prevalent metabolic dysfunctions of our time are related in...
Toxic Metals and Hair Testing
Metabolism of The Toxic Metals Toxic metals are those minerals that have no known function in the human body and which are harmful. This is not an absolute definition, as any mineral may become...
Energy: Healing Reactions
If your Mineral-Nutritional Balancing program gives you any emotional or physical discomfort, stop it temporarily. If you are on the program, and it gives you some physical discomfort, stop it for a...
Emotions and Minerals
The connection between emotions and hair analysis interpretation is a fascinating subject. Dr. Paul Eck devoted much time to studying this area of mind-body interaction. General Principles The...
Energy: Counselling
Some people are so scarred by traumatic happenings in their past that they are afraid to love and afraid to accept love. Some men and women have been so dominated by their parents that they do not...
Energy: Relationships
When one or both partners in a relationship are fatigued, it is a bad environment for love. Like a plant, love needs the right environment to flourish. It needs tenderness (an endless supply),...
Energy: Exercise
We are in favor of exercise. We know it improves circulation, we know it helps get rid of tensions. We know it can help give one a sense of rhythm. And we know it can improve a person’s energy,...
Energy: Na/K Ratio
Why are so many individuals unable to relax and enjoy themselves, and feel fearful and inhibited? Why do so many individuals find it impossible to “let go” and express true emotions? The answer to...
Energy: Blood Test vs. Hair Test
Blood tests and tissue mineral analyses both have their individual benefits and weaknesses. In general, blood tests give you the short-term picture. Tissue mineral analyses give you the long-range...
Basic Mineral Ratios and Their Meaning
Mineral ratios are often more important in determining nutritional deficiencies and excesses than mineral levels alone, although both should be considered.The Importance of Ratios Ratios represent...