INWA, LLC is proud to now offer Hair Analysis. We have teamed up with Analytical Research Labs, Inc. to offer this powerful test to help the client decide what paths are correct for his/her wellness. Please contact us for an appointment and rates. Here is information from Dr. Lawrence Wilson about the reasons Hair Analysis is so useful and needed.
Hair analysis is on invaluable screening tool which allows a correct program of diet and supplementation to be designed for each individual’s specific needs. Never before has there been available a metabolic blueprint with such a degree of applicable scientific accuracy. For further information, see your doctor or nutritional consultant.
WHAT CAN HAIR ANALYSIS REVEAL?
DID YOU KNOW?
• Women’s pre-menstrual headaches ore 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, diverticulitis, and even heart disease?
• Taking too much of any one vitamin or mineral can be harmful?
• High blood pressure and strokes may be caused by too much sodium chloride (salt)?
• Many baby foods contain too much salt?
• 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?
• Too much vitamin C can actually make on infection worse, in certain metabolic types?
• Lead toxicity is linked to multiple sclerosis?
• 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 lack 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 ore important for male potency.
• Diuretics, often prescribed for patients with high blood pressure and heart trouble, can decrease your potassium supply?
• 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 US. at 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 that 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 on 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.
OTHER CONDITIONS WHICH MAY RESULT OR BE AGGRAVATED BY A MINERAL IMBALANCE ARE:
• Depression
• Hypoglycemia
• Hyperactivity
• Headaches
• Hypertension
• Arthritis
• Hair Loss
• Anemia
• Thyroid Disturbance
• Prostate Disorders
• Digestive Disturbance
• Diabetes
• Musculo-Skeletal Disorders
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Skin Rashes
• Emotional Problems
• Allergies
WHY TEST FOR MINERALS?
Minerals are the “spark plugs” of life. They are involved in almost all enzyme reactions within the body. Without enzyme activity, life ceases to exist. A trace mineral analysis is preventive as well as being useful as a screening tool.
WHO NEEDS A HAIR ANALYSIS?
Anyone who is found ill and no explanation can be found, or when the cause seems to be found but the therapy is not wholly effective. Hair analysis opens up a whole new vista for the solving of your own particular problem by recognizing your biochemical individuality.
Even if you are not experiencing a severe problem, abnormal changes in body chemistry and nutritional deficiencies may result in early, subtle changes in the body such as:
• White spots in fingernails – indicates a possible zinc deficiency.
• Longitudinal ridging in nails – indicates an iron deficiency.
• Brittle hair and nails – calcium and copper imbalance.
• Deep grooves across nails – calcium deficiency.
• Stretch marks – zinc deficiency.
• Lack of growth – zinc deficiency.
• Mood swings – possible toxic metal accumulation such as lead, mercury, or cadmium. The above indicators ore early signs of metabolic disturbances and may lead to serious problems if left unchecked.
COMMON CAUSES OF A MINERAL IMBALANCE
• Improper diet – such as excessive intake of refined carbohydrates and sugars, strict vegetarian diets or other exclusive diets.
• Taking vitamins and minerals which ore not compatible with your current body chemistry.
• Medications.
• Birth control pills.
• Stress.
• Accumulation of toxic metals from the environment, job or hobby.
• Inheritance of mineral patterns from parents.
REFERENCES
■ The Biology of the Trace Elements· Karl Schutte· J B Lippincott
■ Clinical Significance of the Essential Biological Metals • I JT Davies – Charles C. Thomas
■ Minerals: Kill or Cure? – Adams & Murray
■ Mental and Elemental Nutrients· Carl C. Pfeiffer- Keats
■ Trace Substances in Environmental Health• Vl & VII • University of Missouri
■ Trace Elements in Health and Disease• Vol. I & II – Academic Press
■ Selenium· National Academy of Sciences
■ Trace Substances and Health• Part 1- Paul M. Newbeme
WHY USE HAIR MINERAL TESTING TO DESIGN NUTRITION PROGRAMS
By Dr. Lawrence D. Wilson (Copyright 2000 Analytical Research Laboratories, Inc.
This material is for educational purposes only.)
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 measuring tissue mineral levels in hair? Here are 12 reasons:
A WINDOW INTO THE CELLS
Nutritional physiology takes place at the cellular level, not within blood or any other location. What you eat is not as important as what is reaching your body cells.
Tissue mineral analysis is unique in that it inexpensively provides information directly about cellular activity – the main site of nutritional metabolism.
DETECTING TOXIC METALS
Toxic metals are a serious problem today, contributing to many metabolic disorders and distressing symptoms including fatigue, infections, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. While routine blood tests cannot detect chronic heavy metal poisoning, tissue mineral analysis is one of the few methods approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for detecting toxic metals in the body.
UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS
Biochemical imbalances can contribute to many mental and emotional conditions. I know of no other tool that even comes close to tissue mineral testing to predict, explain, and suggest nutritional solutions for such common complaints as anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, phobias, insomnia, etc.
REBUILDING THE BODY’S ENERGY MECHANISM
Having an adequate energy level is essential for health. All body activities including healing depend upon adequate energy synthesis. Tissue mineral analysis can be used to assess the efficiency of the energy system of the body including the glycolysis and citric acid cycles, and to recommend nutrients and foods that will assist in rebuilding the energy system.
DETERMINING OXIDATION TYPES
Dr. George Watson discovered that some people burn food at a more rapid rate than normal, and some at a slower rate. Knowing a person’s oxidation rate, as he called it, can help decide which foods are most needed, and which nutrients would be most helpful to restore balance. Giving the wrong nutrients can make your health problems worse. Tissue mineral analysis can be utilized to determine an individual’s oxidation rate with mathematical precision.
IDENTIFYING TRENDS
One of the most useful concepts in health care is to be able to identify trends before they occur, so that action can be taken to avoid them. Twenty or more trends can be identified from a properly interpreted tissue mineral analysis. The ability to identify trends alone makes tissue mineral analysis an invaluable test.
EXACT AMOUNTS OF SUPPLEMENTS AND PROPORTIONS OF FOODS
One problem in designing nutrition programs is determining how much and
which nutrients and foods to recommend. Because of its mathematical nature, hair mineral analysis offers a way to determine supplement dosage and proportions of foods with greater accuracy.
ASSESSING ORGAN, GLAND AND TISSUE FUNCTION
Levels and ratios of tissue minerals relate to the activity of specific organs and glands. By calculating ratios on a tissue mineral test, the function of major glands and organs can be assessed, often long before abnormalities appear on x-rays and blood tests.
CONSTRUCTING A PICTURE OF ONE’S BODY CHEMISTRY
Though not done by many who claim to understand hair analysis, the correct interpretation of the hair test allows construction of a metabolic picture of the way your body is functioning and the way it is responding to stress. I know of no other simple test that allows for the construction of this metabolic blueprint.
MONITORING PROGRESS
A common problem in nutritional therapy is determining if a person is actually improving, especially if some symptoms persist or new symptoms arise. Repeat tissue mineral tests and comparison with previous tests can often provide answers as to whether improvement is occurring, why some symptoms persist, and what to expect in the future.
SUPERIORITY OVER BLOOD TESTS
Blood tests will always be valuable to determine cholesterol, hemoglobin levels, and many other parameters. However, blood tests are incapable of providing the information provided by the hair analysis. There are several reasons why.
Mineral levels in blood are ten times less than they are in the tissues, making measurement difficult. Also, blood levels are kept within very narrow limits by the body for various reasons, so that readings vary but little and less information can be gleaned.
Blood tests are subject to daily fluctuation due to foods eaten the previous day, emotional states, etc. Hair analysis will not vary from day to day and provides a long term metabolic blueprint. Understanding this difference avoids much confusion and the long-term reading can be used to definite advantage.
ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY
While some criticism of the accuracy of tissue mineral testing has been made, procedures exist to make the test as accurate or more accurate than blood tests. No test is 100% accurate.
Tissue mineral analysis by atomic absorption is not new. It has been around for 30 years and is used in every industrial and university chemistry lab. New computer-controlled instruments make excellent reliability possible.
Results of tissue tests can vary because instrumentation and handling procedures differ from lab to lab. This is a problem with some laboratories, however, not with the test. I only use one laboratory, Analytical Research Labs, where the quality control procedures and handling of samples are excellent.
Copyright 2000 Analytical Research Laboratories, Inc.
This material is for educational purposes only.