WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT.
We are Alan Ashby and Carol Dewey. We are board certified HHP’s (Holistic Health Practitioner’s) and are the counselors for Hair Analysis Report. We are members of The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine and Orthomolecular Medicine. We are not trained or licensed in the medical profession nor do we diagnose, treat, prescribe or cure diseases.
We are also spiritual counselors (student/teachers A Course in Miracles) and attend several advanced human consciousness workshops and seminars (graduates of The Monroe Institute’s Gateway Experience and Hemi-Sync™, Dr. David Hawkins – Power vs. Force, Dr. Weiss – past life regression and others) annually. In addition, we do distant subtle energy balancing.
We take great pleasure in introducing you to hair mineral analysis and thank you for taking time to review our site.
What we do is provide wellness conscious individuals like you a means, through hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA), to know what you're nutritional and toxic mineral levels (biochemistry) are and provide a cost-effective and efficient means to balance your biochemistry.
From the holistic standpoint of mind, body and spirit, we concentrate on the energetic systems of your biochemistry because it effects each. If the biochemistry is out of balance, the body suffers negative effects which causes negative mental affects which cause negative spiritual effects. This is a viscous cycle. This connection is now recognized in the professional healthcare field.
Why we do it encompasses too many reasons to list them all here. However, 2 of the important ones are:
- Personal health experiences (Alan) – in the late 90’s I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. I attended the diabetes classes and was put on a 262-gram carbohydrate a day diet. This leads you straight to medication. Fortunately, a friend told me to purchase Dr. Atkins’ book and follow it. Although still diabetic, no medications are required. Then, just a few years ago, a serious (they all are) heart attack. The LAD artery on the heart clogged and was stented immediately. This was three months after a physical with perfect blood analysis results! I want you to realize, I have always been health conscious (no coffee, alcohol, etc.), exercised and consumed good foods. Today, I still see my professional health care provider, but I take full responsibility for my health.
- Eliminate supplement guesswork – because like millions of other people trying to be wellness conscious, we literally spent tens-of-thousands of dollars on supplements and other health products over the years. You can’t imagine our surprise to discover, through hair mineral analysis, just how far out of balance our biochemistry was! Today, the public is so inundated with powerful marketing campaigns that it is very difficult not to fall prey to their claims. You cannot take a shotgun approach to your biochemistry because it is as personal to you as are your fingerprints. Remember, if your biochemistry is perfect – it’s FREE!
WHAT EXACTLY IS A HAIR ANALYSIS?
A Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is an analytical test (soft tissue mineral biopsy) that assays the mineral composition of the cells and interstitial spaces of the hair. It is safe, simple, noninvasive and reveals more nutritional information than any other screening tool available. As a screening tool, it is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease.
Hair is an exceptional long-term mineral recording filament. Hair is formed in the dermis from a cluster of matrix cells that make up the follicle. During the growth phase, metabolic activity is greatly increased, exposing the hair to the internal metabolic environment. This includes the extracellular fluids, circulating blood, and lymph. As the hair reaches the surface of the skin, its outer layers harden, locking in the metabolic products accumulated during this period of hair formation.
Hair is the second most metabolically active tissue and by the very nature of its formations as a biological sample, may provide a permanent record of metabolic activity occurring within the body during its period of growth. The first inch and one-half of hair closest to the scalp can give a good indication of the nutritional and toxic metal exposure over the previous eight to twelve weeks. A mineral deficiency or excess revealed in the HTMA can indicate a possible deficiency, excess, or bio-unavailability of that mineral within the body.
Investigators in Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada and the United States have shown that concentrations of elements in the hair provide an accurate and permanent record of exposure. The Environmental Protection Agency in determining toxic metal exposure uses hair as the tissue of choice.
WHY TEST FOR MINERALS?
In the words of the late Dr. Henry Schroeder, trace elements (minerals) “are more important than are the vitamins, in that they cannot be synthesized by living matter. Thus they are the spark-plugs in the chemistry of life, on which the exchanges of energy in the combustion of foods and the building of living tissues depend.”
Dr. Emanual Cheraskin states in his book, Diet and Disease, “Minerals have interrelationships with every other nutrient. Without optimum mineral levels within the body, the other nutrients are not effectively utilized.”
From Dr. Carl Pfeiffer’s Mental and Elemental Nutrients A Physician’s Guide to Nutrition and Health Care (published 1975) “If good nutrition does not provide steady maximal performance, then the disappointed individual may seek out drugs for this purpose. Easily available drugs are caffeine as in coffee, tea, and cola drinks; alcohol, as in beer, wine and hard drinks; amphetamines, as in diet pills and some nose drops.”
To help you understand this complex interrelationship, we include a free copy of Dr. Watts’ book Trace Elements and Other Essential Nutrients. Dr. Watts is one of the original pioneers of clinical application of tissue mineral analysis with over three decades of international research. The only thing we ask is that you read the first 50-pages in this insightful and easy-to-read book.
By this point, you will have a much better understanding why you shouldn’t just arbitrarily take multi-vitamins, minerals, herbs, supplements or mega-doses of a certain vitamin. You will also understand why doing so can disrupt the delicate biochemical balance of your body and potentially create consequences later on. Nutritional importance is substantiated in JAMA, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, The Lancet, Orthomolecular Medicine and a whole host of other books and publications throughout the ages. Nutrition dates back to the beginning of time. This is nothing new.
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ADVANTAGES OF HAIR ANALYSIS
- Hair analysis is more cost-effective than mineral testing through other means.
- Hair specimens can be collected more quickly and easily than blood, urine, or any other tissue, using a non-invasive method.
- Unlike blood, hair is less susceptible to the homeostatic mechanisms that quickly affect trace element levels.
- Long-term deviations of mineral retention or losses are more easily detected in hair than blood.
- Concentrations of most elements in the hair are significantly higher than found in the blood and other tissues.
- Hair provides a record of past as well as present trace element levels, i.e. biological activity.
- Hair provides information of substances entering the hair from the blood serum as well as from external sources.
- Hair is invaluable in the assessment of toxic metal levels.
WHO SHOULD HAVE AN HTMA?
Actually, everyone! “But I eat organic food, exercise regularly, drink bottled water, take a one-a-day vitamin and feel great!” Well, we offer a FREE analysis if it is perfect. However, the odds of someone sending us a perfect hair sample is roughly one in a trillion. If you eat, breathe and drink anywhere on this planet, your body is creating the layers of adaptation – guaranteed!
Today, everyone lives with the “layers of adaptation” principle and don’t even realize it. What this means is the body adapts to stressors (air, food, water, lifestyle, etc.) by progressive compensations. This creates excesses of some minerals and shortages of others and the body will even use toxic elements to compensate for the shortages of nutritional elements. These “layers” normally progress so slowly that one doesn’t even realize it’s happening. This can be likened to a parent watching their children grow up. It’s just not noticeable on a day-to-day basis.
What does become noticeable is the overall health of the public. Caffeine is now the “drug of choice” and is available everywhere. Energy drink producers are growing as fast as Starbucks. Diabetes, obesity and heart disease are now epidemic. Everyone seems to catch the cold or flu that “is going around”. As revealed year after year in the World Health Organization, America ranks behind thirty other countries for healthy longevity. Don’t discount the unbiased facts reported by the World Health Organization. It is what it is.
WHAT OTHER INFORMATION IS REVEALED IN A HTMA?
Properly interpreted, the HTMA reveals a plethora of information such as:
- Metabolic type – this is the overall chemical reactions taking place within the body,
- Oxidation type – closely related to the metabolic rate, it reveals the rate at which food is burned,
- Stress levels – unhealthy stress levels and stages are revealed by nutrient levels,
- Energy system – many nutrients are involved to produce cellular energy,
- Personality traits – traits (anger, mellow, judgmental, etc.) are revealed through your nutrient levels,
- Weight problems – revealed by metabolic rate, oxidation rate, carb tolerance and others,
- Carbohydrate tolerance – reveals how many carbs are in your diet and how well your body tolerates them,
- Healthy foods you will need to either eliminate or increase during the balancing process,
- Toxic metal burdens – complicate the nutritional elements by displacement,
- And much more!
EQUINE AND CANINE HTMA
Mineral analysis works equally well for equines and canines. The reports are based on the specific breed of animal being tested because the ideal element levels vary. For equine testing, we use a different submittal form requiring information such as show events, performance events, type of feed, stud, gelding, mare, filly or colt. Animal testing only includes the mineral assay results.
Again, we thank you for your time and look forward to serving you. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about our services.
Yours in wellness,
Alan and Carol, HHP’s
Consultants
Alan invented and patented (Patent # 5,555,652) a fairly complex mechanical device and authored a “how to” book to help people with their ideas. I have about five hundred copies still available.
