Minerals from the soil form the basis of the tree’s ability to maintain health. Like the tree, our bodies need minerals in order to sustain life and growth and repair.

Introducing a window into your body’s needs that can be used to promote optimal health:

Hair Mineral Analysis

(aka HTMA)

& Nutritional Balancing

Focus on Your Health and The Rest of Life Begins to Improve Automatically!

When you focus on HEALTH, focus first on MINERALS. Why?

Minerals are required to activate thousands of enzymes in the human body. They are even more important than vitamins because without minerals, vitamins cannot function. Plants manufacture vitamins, and our bodies can manufacture a few vitamins, but most vitamins and all minerals must be obtained from the soil by plants, or from food or water by our bodies. Minerals work in pairs and groups, with one mineral affecting the levels and activities of at least one and often several others. Therefore, minerals must be in balance with one another — for example calcium in balance with magnesium and zinc in balance with copper — or there will be imbalance and thus impaired functioning in the body. For this reason, a particular mineral may be needed by virtually everyone in the modern world (for example, zinc) and yet when it is supplemented, it is found to be helpful for one person, yet detrimental to another even though it is needed! This is also why a person may supplement a particular mineral and benefit initially, but eventually stop benefiting; in such cases it is likely that there is an imbalance among the body’s minerals. For best health minerals need to be balanced. Only with proper testing and an understanding of mineral interactions is it possible to know whether a given person should take a particular mineral, and for how long.

Can you imagine having:

Excellent energy

Sound sleep

A Positive Outlook

A Sharp Mind

Greater Spiritual Connectedness

Freedom From Pain

What is your most prized “possession?” Is it not your HEALTH?

You are made for life and not for death. You are made for health and not for disease. You are made for success and not for failure. You are made for faith and not for confusion. You are made for love and not for fear.

Dr. benson A. idahosa

Where are you in your journey towards improving your health?

Would you like insight into your key nutritional needs?

Thinking of trying a special diet like keto, carnivore or GAPS?

Confused about what supplements are right for you?

A Hair Mineral Analysis and Individualized Nutrition Plan can help just about anyone move toward greater health and wholeness. I can create a nutrition plan for you that will give you information and recommendations tailored to you, not simply based on generalities about your condition and approximate nutrition needs. Individualization is very important for full success with natural healing.

Two people can have the same health issues, for example, frequent infections and chronic back pain, yet their nutritional needs may differ greatly. A hair mineral analysis test can help reveal these individual differences and needs.

Have you noticed that many of today’s approaches to improving health, whether “natural” or conventional, are more like band-aids than like real healing? Often the remedy works for a while, but then it stops working. Nutritional Balancing and healing through balanced, mineral nutrition are different. They are also, perhaps, slower, and a bit more work, but, they are methods of real prevention and improvement, and the solutions are lasting, because they address the root level of health, the body’s mineral system.

For more about the history and development of Nutritional Balancing see Why Use Hair Mineral Analysis To Design Nutrition Plans?”

For Information about the development of the science of minerals and their interactions and functions in the human body, please see the articles by Jon Sasmor, RCPC, at minbalance.com.

True healing is a process which often involves “retracing” and “healing crises.” Retracing simply means the process whereby the body “returns” to a past wound, infection, trauma or other problem to heal it. The process happens naturally and is a feature of nearly every true form of healing that is practiced today.

Although practitioners from many modalities discuss this phenomena, the best one for our purposes is the discussion offered by Dr. Lawrence Wilson – Retracing and Healing Reactions . This article is also linked from the Articles and Updates page on this website, in the middle, green column.

We allow the body to go through these healing crises because the process results in true, deeper healing. This is to be contrasted with what most of us have been taught to believe that healing is, which is to cover up or eliminate symptoms through other (usually immediate) processes, whether they be remedies of various types, even natural ones, and also of course drugs, surgeries, hormone therapies, and so forth. This type of healing is a unique approach in which we aim to provide for the body’s needs, and let the body do the rest. It is ideal where there is chronic illness, weakness or toxicity. It is of course, not the right approach when there is a severe acute problem that is better served by conventional medicine, for example, a broken bone or a life threatening infection in a person who is very old, or young or perhaps weakened to the point that the body cannot do the healing work.

Wondering if hair mineral analysis and Nutritional Balancing can help with your health concerns? Please see “Conditions that Respond” and “List of Conditions Nutritional Balancing has the Potential to Help With.”

To find out more about my qualifications, please see Qualifications and Experience.

For a brief description of how laboratories perform the hair mineral test and how practitioners use it for one of its most important uses — the determination of the stage of stress that a person is currently in — please see Hair Mineral Analysis Basics.

What I Offer

Hair Mineral Analysis Test

Nutrition Consultations

Nutrition Plan and Dietary Advice

Coaching

Here’s an overview of the process:

1) Choose from among the packages I offer. Start with a 20 minute free, pre-test consultation if you like.

2) Cut your own hair sample or do this with help from a friend, or if you are in or near Tucson, I can cut the sample for you — make arrangements to do this with me by email or phone. If you are planning to cut your own sample, I can send you a test kit — see the services page for more information.

3) Fill out forms. For a first test there are four sets of forms. Three require only a signature and one provides your basic health data and concerns.

4) Put your hair sample, forms and payment in the mail to me; or give them to me when we meet to cut a sample in person.

5) I will send you the nutrition plan by email after I receive results back from the lab and analyze them and draw up the plan. Most nutrition plans are 10 – 20 pages in length because there is detailed background information about how to do the recommendations. You review these and then you and I meet to discuss everything. We can meet in person or online by video or by phone.

6) You work on implementing the recommendations over the ensuing 2-4 months.

7) We follow up with additional meetings as needed, to support you in the implementation of the plan. We handle questions or problems you encounter along the way either by email or by phone or video conference.

The process differs a little depending on which of several options you choose.

In approximately 3 to 4 months, the hair test should be repeated in order to update the plan, and the above process starts over. The process must be repeated because these nutrition plans will change your body’s biochemistry — that is the whole point of this process…therefore, we must adjust the plan periodically.

I offer several packages to meet the needs of just about everyone.

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For testimonials and descriptions of other people’s experiences on Nutrition Plans created by me, please see Testimonials.

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For background information about me and my own story of illness, education and recovery, please see About Me.