Has your Mineral Bankruptcy Lead to a Total Body Meltdown?

“In the absence of minerals, vitamins have no function.  Lacking vitamins, the system can make use of the minerals but lacking minerals, vitamins are useless”
~ Dr, Charles Northern
 
Mineral deficiencies are among the most common and serious nutritional deficiencies in our population. It all begins in the soil our food is grown in. Studies done by Dr. Jorge Fletchas show we get our Boron in our food which originally comes from soil and water.  His research led him to look into the levels of Boron in the soil in many locations.  One of the locations was Jamaica, where he specifically found that there was ZERO Boron in the soils.  70% of all Jamaicans had arthritis!
 
One mineral deficiency can cause ENORMOUS problems in a population.
 
There are many reasons we may have mineral deficiencies; I will go over some of them here.
 
1. Over Industrialization – This has caused a depletion of minerals and an excess of toxins – making mineral depletion even worse!
2. Water Quality – we can get many minerals from water, if it is sourced well.
3. Depletion of our Topsoil by Modern Agricultural Practices – The Earth Summit report in 1992 showed a mineral decline in North American soils at 85%, we knew this in the studies of 1936, but nothing was done to rectify or solve it.  Research done on produce showed commercial vs organic and vine ripened produce, that commercially grown produce had a 60% decrease in nutrients.
4. Pesticides/Herbicides/Glyphosate – Glyphosate binds minerals in the soils which prevents uptake of the nutrients in the plants themselves. 
5. Plenty of mineral disrupters in our water and food supply –
Water – Fluoride
Food Supply – in 1980 Bromine was mandated to be added to flour, this specifically affects Iodine absorption.
6. Refrigeration replaced preserving foods with salt – Traditional cultures preserved food with mineral laden salts.
7. Use of white refined table salt in the early 1900’s – This form of salt has all of the minerals removed.
8. Excess calcium exposure in fortified foods – ONLY getting calcium will deplete magnesium (calcium is a game of cofactors!)
9. Excess iron exposure in fortified foods – Excess iron can lower copper levels.
10. Copper piping in 98% of homes (since 1970) – Exogenous copper will bind minerals and spike calcium, magnesium drops, zinc drops, sodium rises, potassium drops, iron deficiency can occur because excess copper will block the iron absorption in the mitochondria and so much more!
 
Copper excess is epidemic now.  We are minerally imbalanced/depleted.  This work is a process – Bringing minerals on board over time can help so much!
 
The Mineral Cascade:
 
Calcium elevates – Due to excess, relative excess, supplementing Calcium or Vitamin D.
 
We then need more Magnesium – Due to Calcium/Magnesium balance, electrical issues, Vitamin D suppressed.
 
These deficiencies lead to suppressing adrenal function – Loss of Magnesium, Sodium and Potassium loss in urine, fatigued and immune challenged.
 
This leads to electrolyte depletion – Which causes Impaired Digestion, Sodium/Potassium Pump failure, glucose cravings and mineral depletion.
 
And this then leads to metabolic dysfunction – Obesity/Diabetes/Hypertension, Type 2 Hypothyroidism, Depression/Heart Disease/Migraines.
 
The end results:
Multiple Metabolic Dysfunctions, including:
Obesity
Heart Disease
Thyroid Hormone Resistance
Type 2 Diabetes
Anxiety
Migraines
Dementia
Hypertension
And the list could go on and on!

Everyone has a varying degree of “Mineral Bankruptcy” leading to “Total Body Meltdown”


Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is the solution to assessing this mineral cascade and beginning to correct it.
 
What is Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)?
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), is an analytical test which measures the mineral content of the hair. The sampled hair, obtained by cutting the first inch and one-half of growth closest to the scalp at the nape of the neck, is prepared in a licensed clinical laboratory through a series of chemical and high temperature digestive procedures. Testing is then performed using highly sophisticated detection equipment and methods to achieve the most accurate and precise results.
 
Why use the hair? Why not use blood?
Hair is an ideal tissue for sampling and testing. First, it can be cut easily and painlessly and can be sent to the lab without special handling requirements. Second, clinical results have shown that a properly obtained sample can give an indication of mineral status and toxic metal accumulation following long term or even acute exposure.
A HTMA reveals a unique metabolic world: intracellular activity, which cannot be seen through most other tests. This provides a blueprint of the biochemistry occurring during the period of hair growth and development.
Examples:

1. Thirty to 40 days following an acute exposure, elevated serum levels of lead may be undetectable. This is due to the body removing the lead from the serum as a protective measure and depositing the metal into such tissues as the liver, bones, teeth and hair.
   
   
2. Nutrient loss from the body can become so advanced that severe health conditions can develop without any appreciable changes noted in those same nutrient levels in a blood test.
   
   
3. Symptoms of elemental deficiency can be present long before low levels can be detected in the serum.
   
   
4. Excess sodium is associated with hypertension, but adequate amounts are required for normal health.

 
Hair is used as one of the tissues of choice by the Environmental Protection Agency in determining toxic metal exposure. A 1980 report from the E.P.A. stated that human hair can be effectively used for biological monitoring of the highest priority toxic metals. This report confirmed the findings of other studies in the U.S. and abroad, which concluded that human hair may be a more appropriate tissue than blood or urine for studying community exposure to some trace elements.
 
I offer Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) as one of my services:
https://farmorpharma.com/htma-services/