Mineral-Nutritional Balancing
Minerals and Mood: Exploring HTMA and Nutritional Balancing for Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) impacts millions of people annually, presenting unique challenges for practitioners supporting clients through seasonal mood shifts. While light therapy, counselling, and medication are often front-line treatments, the role of...
Beyond the Basics: How HTMA and Mineral-Nutritional Balancing Create Transformative Health Protocols
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) and Mineral-Nutritional Balancing are powerful, complementary methods that provide a comprehensive understanding of a client’s mineral profile and toxic metal exposure, paving the way for highly personalized, evidence-based healing...
Optimizing Testosterone in Men and Women with HTMA
Though commonly associated with male health, testosterone plays vital roles in both men and women, influencing everything from muscle mass and mood to fertility. Age-related Decline in Testosterone Levels Testosterone levels naturally decline as individuals...
From Emotional Well-Being to Physical Health: The Power of the Enneagram and Personalized Mineral-Nutritional Balancing
In holistic health, the connections between our physical and emotional well-being are profound and multifaceted. One intriguing approach that bridges these dimensions is the integration of the Enneagram of Personality Types with a Mineral-Nutritional Balancing program...
The Hidden Risks of Exercise: Importance of Mineral Balancing in Patient Care
As HTMA practitioners, providing comprehensive care that integrates exercise and nutritional insights is essential. While exercise is widely recognized for its benefits, understanding its impact on mineral levels can enhance your practice and improve patient outcomes....
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis: A Crucial Tool for Men’s Health
As we observe National Men's Health Month, it's an opportune time to delve into the nuances of men's health and explore how Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) can play a pivotal role in optimizing health outcomes. HTMA offers a unique lens through which practitioners...
Enhancing Mental Health Treatment with Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
In this resource, we will highlight some essential tools that can help improve our understanding and management of mental health in your practice. Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is one such tool, providing crucial insights into mineral imbalances that...
Tailoring Mineral Nutritional Balancing Programs for Sensitive Clients
In my own practice as well as coaching practitioners in Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), I’ve seen how crucial it is to adapt our approach for sensitive clients. Whether due to heightened environmental sensitivity, chronic conditions, or unique biochemical...
Enhancing Patient Care: A Guide to Nervous System Support and Mineral-Nutritional Balancing
Let's dive into a critical aspect often overlooked: the synergy between calming the nervous system and implementing a mineral-nutritional balancing protocol. This approach isn't just about attaining faster results but rather sustainable health improvements for our...
HTMA Deep Dive: The Heart of Mineral Balance
February was recognized as Heart Health Month, reminding us of the vital importance of cardiovascular wellness. This article delves into the pivotal roles that minerals such as magnesium, potassium, and sodium play in maintaining a healthy heart through the lens of Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA).
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 (such as magnesium and zinc) are sometimes called the 'spark plugs' of...
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 measuring tissue mineral levels in hair? Here are 12 reasons: A Window...
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 practitioners often focus on symptoms. Recommendations for medications or...
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 causes for poor results include using replacement therapy,...
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 US-based physician, researcher and clinician who spent 35 years doing...
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. Why do some people respond rapidly while others have more difficulty? A...
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 illness. Fatigue is indeed a basic energy imbalance in the body. This...
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. Through an understanding and control of these basic laws of human energy,...
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 UCLA. He wrote a fascinating book entitled, Nutrition and Your Mind, and...
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 the most physical and mental energy. Energy maintains your body, because...
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, arteries, blood sugar, immune system and skin healthy. This resource...
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 not have enough energy to blink an eyelid. The thyroid gland, located...
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 possibility is that you will be unable to utilize your minerals. They will...
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 some way to a copper imbalance. Copper directly or indirectly affects...