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The hair is especially appropriate to investigate the influence of environment on humans, both at global, regional and local levels.

An example: thirty or forty days after exposure to lead can be difficult to detect elevated blood values. This does not mean that the lead has left the body, but you can tell that is stored in tissues such as liver, bones, teeth and hair.

A hair analysis revealed the actual existence of lead in the body.

Moreover, the analysis also provides indications of mineral imbalances, deficiencies and excesses of many essential elements of toxics and pesticides.

Few people know that the hair is a sign of our body that can be useful in the diagnosis and monitoring of treatment of diseases.

Analysis of toxic metals and minerals

The mineral analysis can provide information on changes in calcium, magnesium and others. This type of evaluation has already been investigated by Dr. David L. Watts in Dallas with 2,000 suffering from fibromyalgia (chronic and persistent pain in joints and muscles with increased sensitivity to pain), which showed significant alterations.

The review covers toxic metals such as mercury, lead or cadmium, and pesticides, which provide information, for example, the excess of DDT in the body, as other substances that affect patients with fibromyalgia.

Why hair?

It is an excellent tissue to measure body mineral status. It gives an image of chemistry, metabolism, in recent months, even years, at the cellular level. Simple to operate and reliable.

Clinical research has shown that a properly collected hair test reveals the levels of vital minerals such as the dangerous toxic substances in the body. It reveals a unique way the interior environment of the body’s cells (intracellular) over a long period of time is a good indicator of the metabolic process, which other methods of analysis they demonstrate hard.

Toxics and drugs

Traces of toxic metals and illegal drugs to disappear from the urine within hours or days, but the evidence remains trapped in the hair. The coat has the advantage of long-term memory. It is a permanent record.

Absorbs toxic minerals or the residue of the drug through their roots from the bloodstream. The substance remains the hair grows at a rate of 1.25 cm per month.

Hair length of 7.5 cm from the portion closest to the scalp provides a history of 6 months.

Canadian researchers were able to relieve with an accuracy of 98% the differences between normal children and those with learning disorders, to analyze 14 elements in hair.

These studies indicated that high levels of lead, cadmium, manganese and reduced levels of chromium and lithium were particularly important for achieving the distinction between the 2 groups.

Imbalances and heavy metal poisoning

People who require a hair mineral test are those patients in whom no apparent cause is found, or when the cause is unknown but therapy is not completely effective.

Hair is a fabric that reflects the state of the whole body mineral and possible heavy metal poisoning, hazardous to our health.

Researchers from Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada and the U.S. have shown that concentrations of elements in the hair provide an accurate and permanent archive of exposure. A close correlation was observed between the levels of trace elements in the hair and internal organs.

All the important nutrients and toxic elements accumulate in the hair.

Source: Fibromyalgia Association of Gran Canaria