HOLISTICA TRACE MINERAL ANALYSIS

TRACE MINERAL HAIR ANALYSIS FROM HAIR SAMPLES

Introducing the King James Medical Laboratory Inc clinical and environmental laboratory. This test is useful for people who have had their nutritional status analyzed and wish to further explore the possibility of overexposure to various minerals and metals.

Hair provides a record of past and current trace element levels. Unlike, blood, hair is an inert substance that consists of a fibrous protein, a-keratin, and trace elements. As hair grows, nutrient and toxic elements are deposited from the blood stream into the hair follicle and hair shaft. Once a trace element has been incorporated into the hair, it remains fixed. A trace element is an element which occurs in the body at very low concentration: less than 0 - -1% of the body’s weight.

Some elements are essential for the functioning of living organisms: iron, zinc, copper, manganese, iodine, molybdenum, chromium and selenium. Certain other elements in trace concentrations are harmful, including lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic. Too much or too little can be wholly or partly responsible for a number of disorders and so it is important to be able to determine accurately the levels of trace elements in the human body.

Naturally, some elements cannot be determined by blood or urine tests alone. For example, lead is stored in bones and cadmium in the liver and kidneys. Information on the body’s accumulation of these elements cannot be obtained easily so hair samples may be used.

Given the difficulties with the use of blood as a specimen, hair deserves considerations as an alternative testing method. Also hair determines long term variations in trace element concentrations.

Hair analysis is not necessary for everyone. A thorough nutritional analysis must be done first. Once that is accomplished, you may proceed to purchase the Trace Mineral Analysis test. A kit will be sent to you with explanations about how to collect your hair sample. You will then mail it to King James Labs directly in the packaging they send to you. Their results will be sent directly to you, bypassing a third party. Results generally take about ten business days. \ If you would like to have more information on what to do with the results after you receive them, you may contact Dr Lexis Johnson, PhD, HHP by email and have her opinions emailed back to you. There are many easy steps you can take nutritionally to correct imbalances found in the hair analysis, which will probably confirm and add to any results found in the nutritional assessment.

The only way in which you may purchase is through direct contact with Dr Lexis, PhD, HHP by email, by a personal visit at her Laguna Hills, CA office or by completing the Holisticanalysis on this website (link to quiz purchase here.)

These are some of the minerals tested:

• Essential Macroelements
• Calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, silicon, boron,
• Nutrient Elements: Boron, cobalt, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, vanadium, zinc, calcium, iodine, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, silicon, sodium, strontium, vanadium
• Other Nonessential Elements: gold, germanium, lithium, strontium,
• Potentially Toxic Elements: aluminum, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, mercury, nickel, lead, boron, cobalt, germanium, gold, lithium, rubidium, tin, tungsten
• Potentially Toxic Elements: antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, cerium, cesium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gallium, lanthanum, lead lutetium, mercury, neodymium, nickel, osmium, palladium, platinum, praseodymium, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium, samarium, silver, telliuium, thallium, thorium, thullium, uranium, ytterbium

Their division of Trace Minerals International is certified to perform elemental analysis on biological samples of human and pet hair. They adhere to a Quality Assurance Plan. Their staff includes doctors of chemistry, medicine and nutrition.

Each Trace Mineral Analysis Kit includes email consultation with Dr Lexis Johnson, PhD, HHP.