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"Hair analysis: When correctly done, hair analysis measures the body's levels of various minerals, including calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and zinc. As the hair is a storage organ, it provides a biochemical record of nutritional status over a period of several months. This is why many health-care practitioners consider hair analysis to provide a better picture of underlying mineral imbalances than most blood or urine tests, which only provide a snapshot of nutritional status at a certain point in time." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Cohen says that children with autism "may have problems with heavy metal toxicity, which at times can be noted on hair analysis, and these include antimony, aluminum and arsenic. They also may have a history of subclinical hypothyroidism. The thyroid is extremely important for brain function. I have a number of children who had hypothyroidism detected based on their body temperature and when they were treated with natural thyroid hormone replacement, their will to concentrate, their behavior, their focusing and overall ability to function improved as well." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Anyone desiring a work up for mental-emotional disturbances should have a hair analysis, which measures toxic metals and also mineral levels as well. Another important test is the adrenal stress index, a salivary test that measures levels of long-acting stress hormones, Cortisol and DHEA. If you take DHEA when your body produces enough of it, it can increase the risk of imbalance of other hormones including testosterone and estrogen. That can be related to certain cancers. So it's important that you have these hormones measured before you engage in any therapy to modulate their levels." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "I know this because I did a hair analysis of the child's hair samples that her mother had saved at various ages. At one and a half, her hair was 180 parts per million of lead. At five, it was down to 80. At age 12 it was down to practically nothing, and at age 18 we couldn't find it. As she grew, this load of lead that she had picked up as a baby was being absorbed into her tissues and being diluted. But it left behind its damage on her. Her teachers would write on her report card, 'Jennifer could have done so much better if she had really tried.' The teachers couldn't understand it." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Pimples and discoloration from cysts are fading. hair analysis indicated traces of copper toxicity and liver congestion which, I feel, cleared with the detox protocol. I have good energy. Working on my journals and writing letters empowered me. I am confident, fearless, and comfortable with issues in the past that once caused pain. I use a rebounder, ride a bicycle, and belly dance. The men in my life today are quite different from those in my toxic relationships of the past. RICK, 77 YEARS OLD I've followed Gary Null's protocol for the past ten years." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In another study of the association between mercury and heart attack, researchers used hair analysis to measure mercury levels in 1,833 men. Their experiment showed that men with the highest mercury levels had twice as many heart attacks and almost three times as many cardiac arrests as those with lower hair mercury content. All our enzymes require specific minerals to carry out their functions. Heavy metals gum up the works. For instance, mercury intrudes in an enzyme system and blocks the ability of certain enzymes to utilize manganese or other nutritional minerals. The enzyme dies." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Hair contains a myriad of minerals, from aluminum to zinc, and for many years hair analysis has been used to confirm mercury and arsenic poisoning. More recently, researchers have been able to diagnose eating disorders from hair samples. Indeed, the quality, quantity, and color of our hair can all be signs of our physical well-being. No wonder hair is said to be a barometer of health. SIGN OF THE TIMES In ancient Egypt, both men and women shaved their heads and wore wigs. Priests, however, had to remove each and every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"However, hair analysis cannot detect vitamin deficiencies, so other tests are needed to supplement the findings of a hair analysis. Individualized Optimal Nutrition (ION) Profile; The ION Profile, from Metame-trix Medical Laboratories (see Resources), uses blood and urine samples to measure over 100 biochemical components. Specifically, ION checks for nutritional status in categories including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty and organic acids, lipid peroxides, general blood chemistries (cholesterol, thyroid hormone, glucose), and antioxidants." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"If the hair analysis comes back and shows that five or more minerals are low, excluding sodium and potassium, then an investigation into low stomach acid should be performed. Once the stomach acid problems are corrected, follow-up hair analysis often shows a trend toward normal or the complete normalization of the previously deficient minerals. Stool Analysis for Meat Fibers In this method of assessment, a stool sample is sent to a lab and analyzed. It is normal to have no undigested meat fibers in a stool sample." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The presence of chromium can be determined via hair analysis or blood analysis methods, which are inexpensive. HAIR ANALYSIS hair analysis as a valid scientific measurement is often criticized and maligned. Yet, there is a specific advantage of hair analysis: When you examine just three inches of hair, you're observing growth over a period of three to four months. You therefore can obtain the average level of the body's status over a several-month period. As the hair grows each day, the mineral status of the body is reflected in the growth of the hair on that day." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"Chapter 26 Hair Analysis I find hair analysis to be another useful tool, along with supplementation and diet recommendations. hair analysis tests for minerals, and in general, 1 would say mineral imbalance is more important than vitamin levels. What is important on the hair analysis results are not so much the absolute values of the hair minerals, but the ratios. Of course, the absolute values cannot be far from optimal. For instance, a normal ratio of calcium to magnesium in the hair is about seven parts calcium to one part magnesium." - Robert C. Atkins MD, Whole-Body Dentistry: Discover The Missing Piece To Better Health (Get the book.)

"If you notice, for example, that your formerly luxuriant locks tangle easily or have become dry, brittle, SIGNIFICANT FACT Americans spend almost $10 million each year on hair analysis to help uncover their health and nutritional status. or coarse, don't be so quick to rush off and buy the latest expensive new hair product. You may, in fact, have the classic signs of hypothy-roidism—a rainy common but often underdiagnosed condition, especially among women. (See Appendix I." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"However, hair analysis cannot detect vitamin deficiencies, so other tests are needed to supplement the findings of a hair analysis. Individualized Optimal Nutrition (ION) Profile; The ION Profile, from Metame-trix Medical Laboratories (see Resources), uses blood and urine samples to measure over 100 biochemical components. Specifically, ION checks for nutritional status in categories including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty and organic acids, lipid peroxides, general blood chemistries (cholesterol, thyroid hormone, glucose), and antioxidants." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Excess levels will be detected by dietary history, by blood tests, and by hair analysis. Serum zinc levels tend to be very stable. A large series of patients we analyzed for the presence of copper and zinc showed that with increasing age there was no change in zinc levels, whereas copper levels went up significantly after age 50. Recently, we saw a patient, age 88, who has been coming to see us every year or two. We saw her first in 1986 when she complained she had lost her sense of taste, that food tasted awful, that she could not smell properly." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "Once the stomach acid problems are corrected, follow-up hair analysis often shows a trend toward normal or the complete normalization of the previously deficient minerals. Stool Analysis for Meat Fibers In this method of assessment, a stool sample is sent to a lab and analyzed. It is normal to have no undigested meat fibers in a stool sample. If, however, the test result demonstrates numerous undigested meat fibers, the cause is typically low stomach acid. After a period of treatment, the undigested meat fibers do not show up on a repeat stool analysis." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"After a day or so, the mercury leaves the bloodstream. But hair analysis will show mercury's impact over days, weeks, or months. This is true of other minerals as well. Lead is another good example. In the case of exposure to lead in a work environment, blood levels rise during the exposure, but 12 to 24 hours afterward, the lead level in the blood will be nondetectable. hair analysis, however, will continue to show evidence of the change. The cost of hair analysis is relatively modest compared to other tests. The most problematic aspect is in the proper interpretation of the results." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"Detoxification The final diagnosis of metal toxicity for aluminum and mercury, as well as for cadmium, silver, gold, and lead, is made by laboratory tests, namely blood analysis, urine analysis, and hair analysis. Once toxicity is diagnosed, the source of the toxic mineral must be determined and withdrawn. Then the naturopathic diet should be instituted. Removing additives decreases the toxic burden on the body and adding fiber increases the excretion of toxic minerals. Then chelating compounds are used. The safest is ascorbic acid, which should be given in optimum doses." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Drug screening in an unconventional matrix: hair analysis. JAMA 1989; 262: 3331 68. Bialkowsa M, Hoser A, Szostak WB et al. Hair zinc and copper concentrations in survivors of myocardial infarction. Ann Nutr Metab 1987; 31: 327-332 69. Austin S. Hair analysis: a reappraisal. NCNM Review 1982; 3: 21 70. Spilker BA, Maugh TH. How useful is hair analysis? J Energy Med 1980; 1: 15 71. Attar K, Abdel-Aal MA, Debayle P. Distribution of trace elements in the lipid and non lipid matter of hair. Clin Chem 1990; 36: 477-480 72. Taylor A. Usefulness of measurements of trace elements in hair." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 (Get the book.)

"We recommend the MineralCheck™ test kit for hair analysis and Osumex for saliva and urine analysis. MineralCheck™ www.ghchealth.com/cleansing www.bodybalance.com/mineral/index.asp 1 (888) 891-3061 Osumex www.ghchealth.com/cleansing www.heavymetalstest.com 1(905)339-2686 Heavy Metals (Vaccine Toxicity) Take the time to educate yourself, your family, and friends about the dangers of many common vaccines. Learn more about VIC (Vaccine Injured Children) and the dangers of vaccines from Vacinfo.org." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Also, hair analysis is a difficult procedure to perform accurately, so labs must be painstaking in their methods. Just like an X-ray, the interpretation of the resulting hair analysis requires knowledge and experience. It is not simply a matter of reading the bar graph in the laboratory report. Many of the complaints by mainstream clinicians about the unscientific use of hair analysis are legitimate." - Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D., Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Hair analysis: As a screening test for heavy metal toxicity, hair analysis can give clues to the body's burden of metals such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and cadmium. hair analysis is not accurate for assessment of general nutrition, however. (2) Urinary organic acids: Measurement of certain acidic compounds in the urine can provide information about the body's ability to detoxify certain solvents as well as some hormones and carcinogens. (2) Testing for Rust Lipid peroxides are oxidized fats." - Mark Hyman, M.D., Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"See hair analysis in Part Three.) Q| See aluminum toxicity; Alzheimer's disease; and Parkinson's disease, all in Part Two. Q| See also Binswanger's Disease and Pick's Disease under rare disorders in Part Two. l c\r\ 0 Anise, blessed thistle, and blue cohosh appear to sharpen brain power. Q| Ginkgo biloba improves cerebral circulation, enhances brain function and memory, and destroys free radicals to protect brain cells. Three times a day, place V2 dropperful of alcohol-free liquid extract under your tongue and hold it there for a few minutes before swallowing." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"HAIR ANALYSIS hair analysis as a valid scientific measurement is often criticized and maligned. Yet, there is a specific advantage of hair analysis: When you examine just three inches of hair, you're observing growth over a period of three to four months. You therefore can obtain the average level of the body's status over a several-month period. As the hair grows each day, the mineral status of the body is reflected in the growth of the hair on that day." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"Blood or urine analysis is not very reliable for measuring toxic levels of most of these heavy metals, especially with long-term exposure and tissue buildup. hair analysis, though controversial, offers the best available evaluation for accumulation of heavy metals, and in many studies, hair levels do correlate fairly well with tissue stores. The heavier the elemerit, the more reliable is the hair analysis. Measuring these toxic minerals is probably the most useful aspect of hair analysis." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"When I showed the guy from the health food store the numbers on my hair analysis tests, he said, "Wow! These are intense. You're having a couple of bowel movements a day, right?" I was embarrassed to admit that I was lucky to have a bowel movement every second or third day. I thought back to when I was searching for alternative cancer therapies for my mom. Someone had recommended "colon therapy," more popularly known as "colonics." I decided to try it, and I managed to locate a colon therapist in Miami." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.) "Then he told me about a kind of testing called hair analysis to confirm the toxins locked in my body. I decided to send my hair sample to the lab, and I got back my results in the mail. Pages and pages of findings reported that my heavy metals, as well as my brother Doug's, were off the charts. I was initially alarmed and asked Uncle Bob if the lab could have sent us the wrong results. He wasn't sure, so I sent another hair clipping for a second analysis." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"See hair analysis in Part Three.) Q Some experts believe that many suicides among the young may be related to undiagnosed schizophrenia. Q Psychiatrists found a link between schizophrenia and pellagra, a vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency disease. Taking several grams of niacinamide daily (under a doctor's supervision) has been tried with good results. Q Undiagnosed celiac disease, caused by an intolerance to gluten, can cause symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia. Gluten intolerance can also cause severe depression. (See celiac disease in Part Two." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

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