Mineral Analysis

Trace minerals are essential to the countless metabolic functions in all the phases of life's processes. They not only provide the building blocks to life itself, but are also necessary in the production of hormones and enzymes activity.

In the words of the late Dr. Henry Schroeder, "trace minerals are the spark-plugs in the chemistry of life". They are the more important factors in human nutrition than vitamins. The body can manufacture many vitamins, but it cannot produce necessary trace minerals.

And with poorer soils, modern farming techniques, fertilizers together with a western lifestyle and environmental pollutants, there is subsequently a significant effect on our general state of health. As a result, the need to better monitor nutritional status has become more important than ever before.

Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis is a specialized analytical test that measures the levels of minerals found in a sample of hair. The analysis supplies quantitative data that helps provide indications to mineral levels and ratio's between essential minerals in the body. Also toxic elements are measured, such as Mercury, Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic, etc. This can be very valuable for people with amalgam fillings and unexplained symptoms for example fatigue, or a couple unable to conceive a child because the husband works as a painter or panel beater and is exposed to toxic products containing heavy metals (studies have shown a correlation between high levels of heavy metals and reduced sperm numbers and motility).