When you take specific nutrients to correct cellular metabolism, you are making changes to your body chemistry that could have been in place for years.

Cadmium has a stimulant like effect that artificially raises sodium levels on a hair test and thus increases the adrenal gland function. It’s not that zinc makes people tired. But instead, that it encourages the detoxification of cadmium. The detoxification of cadmium, makes people fatigued.

The hair sampling procedure is very important for accurate hair tissue mineral analysis readings and sending in a high-quality sample cannot be over emphasised.

We often hear that it’s important to eat a well-balanced diet, containing at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, for us to be healthy. But in regards to nutrients, is it really enough, and are there other factors at play? And even though it may be enough for now, will it be enough in the future with increased forms of stress?

The basic premise of the Biological Replacement of Elements Theory is that the body has a preference for the elements which it uses for optimal biological functions. The body is intelligent and goal-orientated and the accumulation of toxic elements in the tissues occurs for a reason or purpose…
…When the preferred elements are not available through the diet, the body makes compensations by substituting the shortcoming with a less preferred, so-called toxic, element to maintain biological functions and to sustain homeostasis.