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Nutrition Analysis

Nutrition Testing determines your actual nutrient needs without the guesswork. Would you add oil to your car without checking the dipstick? Why take vitamins without first knowing your body's specific nutrient needs? Because any single test has its strengths and weaknesses (which nutrients it's accurate for and which it's not), it is wise to use a combination of different test indicators for the most well rounded accurate assessment of your individual needs. Although taking a certain supplement may, on one hand, make you feel better, it can at the same time be causing unseen problems such as body chemistry imbalance and nutrient interference. For example, Calcium may relieve a persons night time leg cramps. However, a hair tissue mineral test reveals that excess calcium is being deposited into their joints. This person then can unknowingly be contributing to arthritis by the excess accumulation, and to osteoporosis because the calcium is misdirected away from the bone. This can also cause further imbalance in Magnesium and other related minerals, perhaps contributing to cardiovascular or other diseases that individuals may be prone to. A proper selection of individually tailored nutrition tests insures that what you take is what you get, and that it has an overall healthful effect, both immediately and well into the future for long-term overall nutritional balance.

Comprehensive Dietary Nutrient Analysis

Determine your present nutritional status and specific nutrient needs using the most detailed and accurate computerized dietary analysis available. A consultation with Clinical Nutritionist Karl Mincin offers an interpretive review and discussion of the results along with personalized recommendations. The results provide usable data for simplifying your steps toward healthier, time-conscious eating that is more nutritionally balanced. Not only are calorie, carbohydrate, fiber, protein, essential amino acids & fatty acids, cholesterol, and vitamin & mineral levels accurately reflected, but important nutrient ratios - such as calcium to phosphorus and zinc to copper - as well. The analysis provides both unsupplemented (foods only) and supplemented (foods plus supplements) values for all nutrients insuring proper nutritional balance. Combined with the results of any laboratory tests which you may have done. the Dietary Analysis affords a fuller view of what you are actually getting out of what you are putting in to your body. Experience what State of the Art Nutrition can do for you.

Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis

Understanding the relationship between the Diet and Hair Analyses

Along with the computer-calculated Dietary Analysis, the next step in state-of-the-art nutrition assessment is the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.  The Diet and Hair Analyses are best done side by side since the Diet Analysis indicates nutrient levels in the food you eat, while the Hair Analysis measures actual nutrient levels in your body. Essentially the Hair shows how much of which nutrients eaten actually are absorbed through the intestine and go onto nourish the cell,  tissue, and body system. Absorption is the essence of optimal nutrition: "you are what you absorb" is more true than "you are what you eat." Since the hair is a type of connective ("soft") tissue it accurately reflects the mineral status of this tissue throughout the body, from your toe joint to your neck - not just the minerals in your head where the hair is taken from. If for instance, high levels of calcium are found in the hair tissue, this may indicate that calcium is not where it should be - in the harder tissue of the bone.

The usefulness of the first-time Hair Analysis, aside from screening for toxic minerals, and assessing the levels and ratios of nutritional minerals, is that it serves as a baseline reference point for comparing mineral level changes over time. This is especially useful for monitoring the safety and effectiveness of supplementation, and other nutritional therapies. If you've had a mineral analysis in the past. the full value is realized only when the test is repeated. In this way, the results of the first test serves as a reference point for comparison to the second test. Without the results of two tests side by side, there is no way to know whether that high calcium level is returning to normal or getting higher. Now, two of the most informative and cost-effective personal evaluation tools are still more revealing and economical when done together. To receive the forms for the Diet and/or the Hair Analysis, or for any type of question about these or other nutrients, send Karl a message.

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