- What is QHA?
- Necessity and Effects
- How it works
- Analyte List
- Toxic Heavy Metals
- Examples of Damages from Heavy Metals
- Nutritional Minerals
Hair Mineral Analysis is a scientific and comprehensive test method which measures your levels of toxic heavy metals and essential mineral from hair samples collected in a simple and painless way, allowing you to check your health condition, prevent diseases, and improve your diet.
Hair is an index of mineral content in the body like the growth ring of trees.
- Hair contains all body constituents because all bodily fluids including blood and lymph fluid pass through hair roots.
It shows a higher detection level than other tests, providing a long-term (3 months) nutritional status.
- Hair grows about 1cm each month. It can show both your past and current health information because elements in the hair do not change once accumulated.
Taking samples is not painful nor uncomfortable, but very simple.
- Sample-taking is not difficult for everyone because only a small amount of hair is required for the test.
- Among one of the five essential nutrients (carbohydrate, fat, protein, mineral, vitamins) that we intake from food, mineral plays various roles in your body. The overall balance of your body breaks when there is a problem with mineral intake. It is crucial for life activities, and even very small amounts are significant.
Functions of Minerals
| Body Composition | Calcium and phosphorous are required for the bones and teeth, and iron is needed for hemoglobin, which transports enzymes in the body. When your body is deficient in iron, you may suffer from anemia and problems in your fingernails and toenails, and if you are lacking enzymes, your thyroid hormone levels can decrease. Minerals play a crucial role in composing your body. |
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| Enzyme Composition and Activation | Enzymes are needed for digesting, absorbing, and dissolving food as well as metabolism to create energy. Enzymes eliminate active oxygen in your body, detoxify your system, and even regulate your hormone levels and nerves. In order for these enzymes to work, they need vitamins and minerals. Vitamins and minerals also play the role of ‘coenzymes’. |
| Vitamin Activation | Vitamins are crucial for your health, but vitamins are effective only when there are minerals in your body. You need enough amounts of both vitamins and minerals so they can create synergistic effects to maintain your health. |
| Water and pH Maintenance | Blood and bodily fluids are maintained in pH 7.4, which is an alkalescent state. When the body pH becomes acidic, you easily feel tired and you become prone to diseases. Minerals such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium neutralize acidic bodily fluids and maintain them in an alkalescent state. |
Mineral Deficiency Symptom
1. Initial deficiency symptoms : fatigue, insomnia, lethargy, tired eyes, restlessness, memory loss, loss of appetite, etc.
2. Serious deficiency symptoms : constipation, cold hands and feet, obesity, headache, menstrual pain, osteoporosis, increase of stress, etc.
3. Lifestyle deficiency symptoms : arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, etc.
4. Lifestyle disease occurrences : heart disease, cerebral infarction, diabetes, gout, cancer, etc.
