Nutrition
Nutrition and Hair Analysis
Nutrition is a confusing and often contradictory subject in our society today. We are constantly barraged by the latest “scientific discoveries,” clever marketing campaigns, myths, memes, lore, and finally left with the old cliché “eat a healthy diet.”
Unfortunately, none of these sources addresses the two most important fundamentals of nutrition found in our personalized nutrition program. They are:
- Know (don’t guess) your current nutritional and toxic element levels
- Know a synergistic/antagonistic interrelationship exists between every nutrient.
A comprehensive and personalized nutrition program addresses both these important and fundamental nutritional points first because it reveals your current metabolism and provides information needed to improve your metabolism. Consequently, correcting one’s metabolism is not an instant process, magic bullet, or shotgun approach. Nutrition is what we absorb and utilize at the cellular level.
FOOD RECOMMENDATIONS
Food is our primary nutrient source and the recommendations are computer-generated from your hair analysis and based on the following criteria.
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Specific Dynamic Action (direct metabolic affects)
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Naturally occurring substances (enhance or eliminate absorption)
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Dominating nutrient content of each food
Interestingly, you will find that even nutritional foods you currently consume may be negatively affecting your current nutritional balance and metabolic status. Food recommendations are temporary and change as the metabolism improves.
SUPPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS
Supplement recommendations also result from your mineral analysis. Supplements are not food replacements. They are only intended to assist foods improve your metabolism sooner. We provide Trace Nutrients™ because they are specifically formulated and clinically tested by Dr. David Watts, Director of Research, TEI laboratory.
NUTRIENT INTERRELATIONSHIPS
Food and supplement recommendations are derived from your current nutritional status and the interrelationships of each nutrient required to improve your metabolism. Fats, carbohydrates, protein, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids possess interrelationships that must be considered. For example, interrelationships include mineral/mineral, mineral/vitamin, vitamin/vitamin and amino acid/amino acid as well as each amino acid to mineral and vitamins. Each relationship is either synergistic or antagonistic if a nutrient is in an excess or deficient level.
The importance of nutrient interrelationships dates back well over a century ago and although the information is readily available, it is not well publicized. The following are merely two examples of this knowledge.
DeWayne Ashmead stated in Chelated Mineral Nutrition in Plants, Animals And Man, (1982) “there are at least eighteen barriers to mineral absorption, which means that the minerals we consume do not necessarily wind up in our bodies.”
As Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin writes in Diet And Disease, (1968) (author / coauthor of over 700 publications in international science journals and 25 books) “Minerals have interrelationships with every other nutrient. Without optimum mineral levels in the body, the other nutrients are not effectively utilized.”