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4 Things To Know About Detecting Nutritional Deficiency Through Hair Testing

By: Lena Butler Home | Health-and-Fitness


It’s often difficult to determine whether you have nutritional deficiency, unlike common illnesses or diseases. For instance, you know that you’ve caught a virus when you start sneezing and developing a fever. You also know that you have an allergy if you start developing rashes all over your body. If you have zinc deficiency, on the other hand, you might not feel or notice its symptoms before its too late.

You might disregard symptoms such as a sore tongue, cuticle inflammation and even the cracking of skin that all point to zinc deficiency. The body is composed of many different minerals interacting with other minerals, and your health and wellbeing is largely dependent on having an adequate level and supply of these minerals. One surefire way to determine whether you have a nutritional deficiency is through hair testing. Below are some important pointers for you to understand how hair testing can help you pave your way to health and a good life.

1. Hair testing gives nutritionists and doctors a bigger picture of your overall health. A serum test or a blood analysis may be undertaken so that doctors or nutritionists can detect whether your body lacks certain minerals. But while this is the most popular method nowadays, hair testing can give a better picture of underlying deficiencies. According to the book Alternative Medicine Magazine’s Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders, hair testing can measure the body’s level of various minerals over a long period of time. The hair acts as a storage receptacle and can give medical practitioners a biochemical record of your nutritional status for over several months.

2. Hair testing is less painful and more practical than urine or blood testing. Those who are scared of needles and blood need not worry about encountering both when they go for hair testing. All doctors need is a strand of your hair to determine whether you have nutritional deficiency or not. Hair testing is a non-invasive and economical way to determine the levels of minerals in your body as well as to detect body toxins.

3. Your hair holds your medical history, much like your records in your doctor’s clinic. Each person has about 100,000 strands of hair that grow about half an inch per month. Minerals, deposits and even body toxins get deposited into the hair protein. Thus, each strand of hair contains a record of the minerals and even body toxins in your tissues. The Chelation Controversy: How to Safely Detoxify Your Body and Improve Your Health and Wellbeing also states that it is this characteristic of hair testing that has made it more accurate and superior than blood or body fluid analysis.

4. The imbalance of minerals or even your endocrine system can be detected faster and sooner through hair testing. The book Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide by Jonathan Chamberlain details that one great way to arm yourself against the battle against cancer is through proper detoxification and a diet that caters to address your body’s nutritional deficiency. It also states that hair testing can reveal important details about your endocrine and nutritional status even before these can be seen in normal blood tests.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or so the old adage goes. You can keep yourself safe from diseases and nutritional deficiency by making sure that you body has a healthy level of minerals and is free from body toxins. Consider getting a hair test to determine whether you have to make adjustments in your lifestyle and diet to stay healthy.



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Lena Butler, the author of Health & Drug Testing Information Center a longer version of this article is located at 4 Things to Know About Detecting Nutritional Deficiency Through Hair Testing, and resources from other home health and wellness testing articles are used such as Hair Follicle Test Kits.

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