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Periodic Table of the Elements – Hair Mineral Analysis

Periodic Table of the Elements: Hair Mineral Analysis

Do you remember the Periodic Table of the Elements from middle school and thereafter?  Perhaps you loved it or perhaps you never really understood it.  Well, either way, it is a fascinating way to understand the nature and relationships of the different chemical elements that make up the chemical aspects of the Earth and our own body.

In this video I point out various minerals and other elements of most relevance to understanding Hair Mineral Analysis.  I do not go into all of the elements, nor all of the heavy metals.  The latter is discussed more in other videos http://www.TheRedwoodClinic.com/removing-toxins.

After watching these, if you want to get a hair mineral analysis with explanation please contact The Redwood Clinic at +1-510-849-1176.

Hair mineral Analysis You tube videos

The Periodic Table and Minerals: https://youtu.be/BIGl8I0V_4E

Potassium – Hair Mineral Analysis Element

Potassium – Hair Mineral Analysis Element and Body Functioning

Potassium is an important element and mineral test in the hair mineral analysis testing.  Potassium plays a significant role in your body and cells, often paired up with Sodium.  Doctors also look at the amounts of Potassium in your blood during the comprehensive blood testing.  This hair deposition of Potassium gives additional and significant information about your body that the blood Potassium levels do not.

Diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular illness, obesity, cognitive decline — are just a few of the many conditions, malfunctions, or diseases that do not develop symptoms often until they are progressed quite a long time and Potassium may play a key role.  Functioning has to drop to around 40% for symptoms to be obvious — up until a drop of function by 60% we know about dysfunction by things other than symptoms.   Hair Mineral Analysis focuses on particular minerals –macro, micro, trace and heavy metals found stored in your hair.  Understanding the relationships among the different minerals found can tell us a lot about how your body is functioning.  Not only your body, but your emotions and hormones.

After watching this, if you want to get a hair mineral analysis with explanation please contact The Redwood Clinic at +1-510-849-1176.

Hair mineral Analysis You tube videos

 Potassium: http://youtu.be/jUN45B-OCMQ

 

Sodium – Hair Mineral Analysis Element

Sodium – Hair Mineral Analysis Element and Body Functioning

Sodium is an important element and mineral test in the hair mineral analysis testing.  Sodium plays a significant role in your body and cells, often paired up with Potassium.  If you have high blood pressure your doctor will tell you to cut down on your Sodium. Doctors also look at the amount of Sodium in your blood during the comprehensive blood testing.  This hair deposition of Sodium gives additional and significant information about your body that the blood Sodium levels do not.

Diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular illness, obesity, cognitive decline — are just a few of the many conditions, malfunctions, or diseases that do not develop symptoms often until they are progressed quite a long time and Sodium may play a key role.  Functioning has to drop to around 40% for symptoms to be obvious — up until a drop of function by 60% we know about dysfunction by things other than symptoms.   Hair Mineral Analysis focuses on particular minerals –macro, micro, trace and heavy metals found stored in your hair.  Understanding the relationships among the different minerals found can tell us a lot about how your body is functioning.  Not only your body, but your emotions and hormones.

After watching this, if you want to get a hair mineral analysis with explanation please contact The Redwood Clinic at +1-510-849-1176.

Hair mineral Analysis You tube videos

Sodium: https://youtu.be/WLiNaQqTHTM

 

Magnesium – Hair Mineral Analysis Element

Magnesium – Hair Mineral Analysis Element and Body Functioning

Magnesium is another important element and mineral test in the hair mineral analysis testing.  Magnesium plays a significant role in your body and cells, often paired up with Calcium.  Doctors also look at the amounts of Magnesium in your blood during the comprehensive blood testing.  This hair deposition of Magnesium gives additional and significant information about your body that the blood Magnesium levels do not.

Diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular illness, obesity, cognitive decline — are just a few of the many conditions, malfunctions, or diseases that do not develop symptoms often until they are progressed quite a long time and Magnesium may play a key role.  It also has a big role in fatigue, muscle function, and muscle cramping. Functioning has to drop to around 40% for symptoms to be obvious — up until a drop of function by 60% we know about dysfunction by things other than symptoms.   Hair Mineral Analysis focuses on particular minerals –macro, micro, trace and heavy metals found stored in your hair.  Understanding the relationships among the different minerals found can tell us a lot about how your body is functioning.  Not only your body, but your emotions and hormones.

We hope that you enjoy what Dr. Jay produced for you. After watching these, if you want to get a hair mineral analysis with explanation please contact The Redwood Clinic at +1-510-849-1176.

Hair mineral Analysis You tube videos

Magnesium: https://youtu.be/mYjubArdQss

Calcium – Hair Mineral Analysis Element

Calcium – Hair Mineral Analysis and Body Functioning

Calcium is an important element and mineral test in the hair mineral analysis testing.  Calcium plays a significant role in your body and cells, often paired up with Magnesium.  It is stored in the bones and used everywhere, muscles, nerves, and cell membranes.  Doctors  look at the amounts of Calcium in your blood during the comprehensive blood testing.  This hair deposition of Calcium gives additional and significant information about your body that the blood Calcium levels do not.

Diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular illness, obesity, cognitive decline — are just a few of the many conditions, malfunctions, or diseases that do not develop symptoms often until they are progressed quite a long time and Calcium may play a key role.  Functioning has to drop to around 40% for symptoms to be obvious — up until a drop of function by 60% we know about dysfunction by things other than symptoms.   Hair Mineral Analysis focuses on particular minerals –macro, micro, trace and heavy metals found stored in your hair.  Understanding the relationships among the different minerals found can tell us a lot about how your body is functioning.  Not only your body, but your emotions and hormones.

After watching this, if you want to get a hair mineral analysis with explanation please contact The Redwood Clinic at +1-510-849-1176.

Hair mineral Analysis You tube videos

Calcium: https://youtu.be/YecrOenJTZE

 

Hair Mineral Analysis – Detecting Your Body’s Hidden Conditions

Do you have symptoms that are mysterious to your doctors?  Do you feel “off” but your blood tests all are normal?  We are finding that hair mineral analysis provides information that may tell us what is going on now and what may transpire in the future.  This is because your minerals have a significant role in how well your body works.

We have created a series of videos to talk about hair mineral analysis and the major minerals involved in analysis of the body mineral balance. The first one is on hair mineral analysis in general.  Followed by one on the periodic table of the elements (remember that from the sixth grade?  Well, it is STILL relevant!).  And then one on each of the four major minerals in the body.  Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, and Potassium.  We hope that you enjoy this mini-series about how your body works.

Hair Mineral Analysis: Heavy Metal and Body Functioning

You may be having underlying physical conditions that are not yet causing you symptoms, and yet they will eventually if not taken care of now.  Diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular illness, obesity, cognitive decline — are just a few of the many conditions, malfunctions, or diseases that do not develop symptoms often until they are progressed quite a long time.  Functioning has to drop to around 40% for symptoms to be obvious — up until a drop of function by 60% we know about dysfunction by things other than symptoms.  What are those tools? The approaches we use to find out what is going on with you at a functional level include listening to your voice quality, observing your gait and posture, the brightness of the twinkle in your eye, your emotional range, blood tests, saliva tests, orthopedic testing, Bio-impedance analysis, pH testing, urine tests, and Hair Mineral Analysis. Hair Mineral Analysis focuses on particular minerals –macro, micro, trace and heavy metals found stored in your hair.  As hair grows about 1/2 inch per month, we take 1.5 inches of hair from the nape of the neck, right at the roots, to see what has been going on metabolically with you for the past 3 months.  Understanding the relationships among the different minerals found can tell us a lot about how your body is functioning.  Not only your body, but your emotions and hormones. I have prepared a series of brief videos describing this testing, 4 of the minerals that we look at, and how the minerals are related to each other with respect to the periodic table.  We hope that you enjoy what Dr. Jay produced for you. After watching these, if you want to get a hair mineral analysis with explanation please contact The Redwood Clinic at +1-510-849-1176.

Hair mineral Analysis You tube videos

Hair Mineral Analysis in General: https://youtu.be/GBttX8AqzbM

 

 

 

 

 

Heavy Metal Toxicity | Heavy Metal Test | Heavy Metal Detoxification Capacity

Removing Toxicity – Heavy Metal Toxicity and Chemicals in General

Heavy metals in your body can damage the nervous system and other tissues and cellular components. This is called heavy metal toxicity.   Lead, mercury, and aluminum are 3 examples of commonly found heavy metals in the body.  Even in the bodies of infants.

You know that lead is not good for human development.  It causes heavy metal toxicity.  It

Sculpture called Liquid Mercury

Sculpture called Liquid Mercury

was removed from paints and gasoline as a result. Mercury is not to be played with in a bare hand or other parts of the skin.  Mercury thermometers are rarely found anymore and were replaced by alcohol and digital thermometers because of the toxic potential of mercury.

How well does your body clear out the heavy metals that got into your body?  There are several methods to test not only the presence of heavy metals but how well your body is clearing them out.  This video explains one of the several methods we use because of their efficacy, accuracy, simplicity, and cost.  https://youtu.be/WrDpB0t4Eno

MERCURY as an Example of Heavy Metal Toxicity

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. In its pure form (often called metallic or elemental), mercury is a shiny, silver-white, odorless liquid.

mercury

Liquid Mercury

According to Medscape, Mercury in any form is poisonous, with mercury toxicity most commonly affecting the neurologic, gastrointestinal (GI) and renal organ systems. Poisoning can result from mercury vapor inhalation, mercury ingestion, mercury injection, and absorption of mercury through the skin.

Pouring Mercury

Pouring Mercury

Mercury has 3 forms: (1) elemental mercury, (2) inorganic salts, and (3) organic compounds. Perhaps the most deadly form of mercury is methylmercury. Only 2-10% of the ingested mercury is absorbed from the gut, and ingested elemental mercury is not absorbed at all; however, 90% of any methylmercury ingested is absorbed into the bloodstream from the GI tract. (http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1175560-overview)

Water Purification

Avoiding the ingestion of damaging chemicals and heavy metals is as important as removing them from inside the body.  Using a water purification for water that you drink, cook with, and even shower with is an important part of a healthy life-style nowadays.  Given that there are 100,000 new chemicals in the environment that your body was never exposed to before, keeping them out of the body (unless you specifically want to ingest them) avoids having to clean them out later.  Cleaning them out later takes energy and resources that could be used for more important things, like enjoying time with family, chatting, and relaxing in your favorite hobby. I suggest the Multipure filter as a good choice to at least start out with.  Don’t use something that only claims to make the water taste better.  It will taste better but not remove the toxins that will damage you and your family’s and children’s health.

To learn more about how to protect your brain from chemicals, please sign up for my video series as well.  And read “Super Brain: Maximize Your Brain Health for a Better Life.”

 

 

 

 

Memory, Alzheimer’s and Pesticides?

Are Pesticides Causing Memory Issues and Alzheimer’s?

Scientific America is weighing in on this question based on research reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology.

At Scientific American suggests that “saying that any pesticide causes Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is going too far. But evidence from a small study reported in JAMA Neurology suggests there could be a connection.” But the question still remains, “Are pesticides causing memory issues and Alzheimer’s?”

The JAMA Neurology study looked at pesticide levels in the blood of people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and those who didn’t have it.  They looked for blood levels of DDE (a major byproduct of the pesticide DDT).  The levels of DDE in the AD subjects were almost FOUR TIMES HIGHER than in the controls. FOUR TIMES HIGHER.

This comes as no great surprise to those of us who have been looking at this chemical toxicity issue already for decades.  And, I go into detail about this connection, as ONLY 1 of MANY, in my books.  Learn more by going to http://www.OutsmartingDementia.com and http://www.SuperBrain-TheBook.com.

#Alzheimer #SuperBrain #obesity #pesticides

Scientific American states that there are still minute levels of DDE, a pesticide, in the US environment in spite of DDT having been banned in this country after Rachel Carson’s wide-spread alerting of the public in her seminal book, Silent Spring. 

There are still countries that permit the use of DDT pesticide in agriculture, and thus residues are most likely to be found fruits and vegetables imported from there. The pesticide has also been found in seafood, particularly farmed fatty fish, such as salmon, and shellfish imported from other countries.  DDE and DDT do not break down quickly, so that is one reason why they are so persistent even after being banned.

Scientific American advises that to reduce your exposure, wash produce thoroughly, throw away the outer leaves of leafy vegetables such as cabbage and trim the fat from meat and fat and skin from poultry and fish. If you eat sport-caught fish, check your state’s advisories for which types to avoid. If you don’t avoid it you may be susceptible to its ill effects and memory loss and Alzheimer’s.

Because trace amounts of pesticides (and other bad chemicals) can be in the water you drink from the tap, it is essential that you filter your drinking and cooking water with an effective water filtration system like the ones we recommend at http://www.multipureusa.com/redwoodclinic.  Buy one and use it to save the lives of yourself and your children.

The Scientific American article can be found at Memory on May 25, 2015

B.A.N.K. Code Summit – Helping More People

B.A.N.K. Code Summit – Helping More People

I recently attended a second Global BANK Academy Summit Training in San Francisco. The group of people and trainers was fantastic — a wide spectrum of male, female, ages, races, nationality backgrounds, and occupations. As one person said, “This is the kind of gathering that is the ideal that shows that we are not separate races, we are all part of the HUMAN race.”

The training, which you can learn more about and sign up for at my link, helps me and you learn more in depth with fun and predictability the Four Values types people tend to has as individuals. Next, in this step by step manner of teaching that keeps you engaged, interested, and learning, we break in to small groups to learn in a cooperative fashinon. There is some competition and games for those who thrive on that (I do get competitive at times!), but lots of opportunity to meet others and establish connections, if that is what you are looking for. By the end of the weekend many of the around one hundred participants got much more of a feel for how to better understand others deeply but rapidly.

A couple of the people I met explain how they apply BANK Code to their lives in these videos I put together for you. I hope that you enjoy them.  Laura and Dave.  Dave is a real estate agent very successfully using BANK to close sales by establishing greater rapport.