What can Your hair tell You About Your Health?

Hair analysis using good quality laboratory equipment, is slowly gaining recognition as a really helpful way to help assess levels of substances that are difficult to measure by other methods.  Blood and urine samples can tell us a lot about the way your body is working but are less helpful when measuring some substances. For example blood tests can vary during the day due to the food eaten.

Toxic metals such as mercury and lead can be present in the body and damage the body but not present in the blood or urine in measurable amount. Hair analysis can be helpful to assess whether such toxic metals may be high in your body. 

Hair analysis can also be used to help assess the levels of minerals you need to be healthy. Recent research now shows that hair analysis can give a true indication of the level of important minerals.   For example selenium is essential for a healthy immune system, so helps you to fight disease. A recent study of hair samples from children with leukaemia and lymphoma showed low levels of selenium. Many other studies have also shown low selenium intake to be linked to an increased risk of cancer. Selenium is a nutrient that is naturally low in New Zealand soil and our intake of this mineral is often low.

Studies indicate that hair analysis can help analyse the connection between some conditions and toxic metals and nutritious minerals. Hair samples from children with autism spectrum disorders show these children to have low levels of calcium, magnesium, copper, manganese, iodine, chromium, potassium. Hair samples have shown that children who have autism may have difficulty in eliminating toxic metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic, and cadmium these can build up in the brain and effect the way it works.

Hair analysis can show imbalances long before a major disease is identified. I see this happening with couples who are having fertility problems. Both the man and woman appear well but are unable to have a child. The hair analysis shows minerals important for long term health and conception are low.  By guiding the couple to make changes not only are they able to have a healthy baby but they are less likely to develop a serious illness.

Order your Hair Mineral Analysis; Call 07 542 1364 or email Jaine today .

All information contained in this site is for general interest and not a substitute for professional advice.