Nutritional Balancing and Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis

© Copyright 2003 by Lawrence Wilson, M.D., USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 2)

Introduction
Nutritional balancing science is a unique synthesis of twentieth-century systems concepts forming a powerful healing for a toxic and depleted humanity. It incorporates the stress theory of disease, metabolic typing, trace mineral analysis and natural healing principles. For fourteen years, the author was privileged to work with its developer, Dr. Paul C. Eck.
It is to be distinguished from symptomatic nutrition. This, like all symptomatic therapy, is fine as far as it goes. However, it often misses, suppresses or masks systemic dysfunctions, allowing them to worsen until a more serious condition develops. Symptomatic nutrition will always have a role, especially in acute illness. However, when it is the main focus one misses the larger picture and shortchanges the patient.
Most nutrition practiced is symptomatic, including chelating heavy metals, eliminating candida infections, killing parasites, treating leaky gut syndrome and most use of herbal remedies. Nutritional balancing is concerned less with specific conditions while placing more emphasis on patterns of system response. Correct these and many problems improve at the same time. Most important, many undetected imbalances and latent conditions improve as well.

Keys to Interpreting a Hair Test
Consider a mineral analysis as a whole system, not as individual numbers. Ratios and patterns are more important than mineral levels. Ratios represent relationships and balances in the body. Always to do an energetic assessment when reviewing a hair analysis. Enhancing the patient’s energy permits more rapid healing. All readings are adaptations to stress and occur in layers. Correction involves undoing layers of adaptation. These and other principles are discussed in Nutritional Balancing and Hair Mineral Analysis.

Interpreting hair analyses takes some time to understand. When learning, many practitioners focus on a single mineral such as mercury. Instead, focus on the electrolytes and their ratios, as described earlier. Results will be much better when the test is viewed as reflecting the condition of the entire mind-body system. I hope this brief introduction helps one see the potential of mineral analysis when used to assess system response to stress.