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Test – Liver Detoxification Profile

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I’ve nearly completed this last round of testing. One or two to go…

These tests results were derived from a urine sample after taking some caffeine and paracetamol to see how efficiently my liver processed them. This test was ordered primarily to see how high much chelation (toxin absorbing chemicals) I could tolerate assuming they will be required for treatment. These results obviously look out of quilter so I will update this post when I hear from my Doc when he interprets it over the next week or two.

Liver Detox Profile

 

Which Hair Test is Best?

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What I mean by the title is which Hair Testing company provides the most accurate and informative results.

For Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) I have used Analytical Research Labs (via Dr L Wilson) in the past. The results have been accurate but there is a better alternative available.

I’m afraid to say that ARL is a little behind the times. They seem to be stuck in the 1980’s and they haven’t adapted or changed over time. (as at July 2016). I hope they lift their game.

Trace Elements (TEI) in Texas provide more information than ARL. They use the same quality testing procedure but a skilled hair test interpreter is missing some vital clues if only relying on ARL tests.

I took a snapshot of part of the Trace Elements test but the full sample is at the end of the post.

Trace Elements

Trace Elements Hair Test

 

With Trace Elements you get:

  • 15 Nutritional Elements including Sulfur an accurate Boron reading.
  • 8 Toxic Elements including Antimony, Uranium and Berylium. That’s on top of Mercury, Aluminium, Lead, Arsenic and Cadmium. (ARL just has these last 5)
  • 14 Additional Elements including: Germanium, Barium, Bismuth, Rubidium, Nickel, Lithium, Platinum, Thallium, Vanadium, Strontium, Tin, Titanium, Tungsten, Zirconium. (ARL only do 5)
  • 7 Significant Ratios. These are gold for interpreters; more the better. Both companies provide the same with Trace Elements adding Iron/Copper.
  • 9 Toxic Ratios – e.g. Calcium/Lead. Toxic minerals vs Essential Minerals.
  • 11 Additional Ratios – mainly for reference while patient improves.

Here’s what a full sample test looks like: (PDF)

Trace Elements Hair Test

You’ll most likely have to find a practitioner to get access to these testing facilities but that shouldn’t be too difficult. Hunt around on the net or email Trace Elements

http://www.traceelements.com/

A hair test is a great start to unravelling the underlying causes of your symptoms. If the practitioner you are seeing doesn’t cut the mustard then show the test to someone who does and don’t stop till you get some answers.

The hair analysis should give you some clues as to what do next in terms of recovering your health.

Everything else I’m doing is covered in my Book

 

Dr L Wilson Interview – Adrenal Fatigue

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Here is a very informative interview with Dr Wilson regarding Nutritional Balancing. It was conducted by Wendy Myers and is also available on her website www.liveto110.com

Dr Wilson

Water – A Whole Food

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I completely underestimated the role water plays in recovering from any chronic illness. It’s a cornerstone of good health.

I finally switched to Spring Water after drinking filtered tap and rain water. If you want to give yourself every chance of reaching peak health, you have to be drinking great water. One reason I put off drinking spring water was using the plastic and the possible of toxins leaching. That is the lesser evil; your health is the number one priority right now.

Rain water is slightly acidic at around ph6.5. Our blood is ph7.4 so ideally you want your water to match or be above that. PH drops are not a match for pure spring water. I use a local spring water in New Zealand. Any decent spring water should have the magic ingredients of Magnesium, Calcium, Sodium, Silica and Bicarbonate, etc.

If you have choices, try different brands. Beware of a detox effect if you switch to a relatively high PH water compared to what you have been drinking. I experienced 3 weeks of weakness, fatigue, runny nose before things settled down. I had never tried spring water in all the years I had been ill, so perhaps this was quite literally, some spring cleaning going on. If a particular type of water makes you feel rough, then that might be a good thing. Be patient with the re-balancing period.

Spring WaterI use a 15 liter container which seems to work out best. Continually buying smaller bottles would be too frustrating. I fill a smaller plastic bottle if I’m heading out for the day.

I would not use alkaline water machines or PH drops to boost low PH water. The best water would be somewhere local to you where it is as pure as possible. It might be called Artesian or Mineral water. Check what is in it and how it is processed.

The less manipulation and filtering, the better. This ‘pure’ water has various trace minerals that are crucial for optimal healing and general health.

As for tap water that contains fluoride and chlorine, I steer well clear of it. If you cannot source spring water then a decent chlorine filter will have to suffice, but always be on the lookout to improve it. Hunt around for the better water filters.

More information on water at:

http://www.drlwilson.com/articles/water.htm

Does the The ‘Lightning Process’ Work? – Not for me.

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I gave the Lightning Process everything I had but unfortunately it didn’t work for me.

Because I signed a contract saying I would not disclose the process to anyone else, I cannot go into too much detail here. The Lightning Process is a simple ‘procedure’ that one completes every time they don’t feel ‘well’. So you might be walking down the street and you feel unwanted symptoms, so you stop and do the procedure. This is basically designed to snap you out of whatever unhelpful habit you had unconsciously perfected. The Process re-trains your mind to stop going down that negative path. It has similarities to Neuro Linguistic Programming.

I had read various success stories and really believed that this could be the solution for me. My trainer was Ian Cleary from Australia. He was always very helpful when I was struggling to make any headway and I couldn’t have asked for a better trainer.

Part of the theory is that constant negative thoughts and poor decision making over-stimulate the adrenal glands and eventually creates chronic symptoms. This made sense to me at the time and I’m recovering now (4 years later) because I’ve learnt how to not react to situations I used to react to. It’s basically a behavioral change that I didn’t even know I needed. Or I did realise I had to change but didn’t know how. And it’s very easy once you know how. So a completely different method is working for me and I would say 100% of people would get some benefit from this knowledge.

Back to the LP. When you decide to start doing the process, you have to commit to doing it every time you don’t feel well, so I had to do it all day which was pretty full on. I was continually doing it for most of the day, perhaps a hundred times and this is not unheard of. I gave it 100% but I actually started to get even more mentally exhausted to the point where I was starting to really suffer and deteriorate. The intense concentration was mentally breaking me down so I felt I had no other option but to stop.

This was very disappointing so after a week or two off and chatting to Ian about where I could be going wrong, I decided to give it another go but the same thing happened. After a third time a few weeks later I decided that it probably wasn’t going to work for me at this stage.

It amazed me that some people that were in wheel chairs did the process and then could go travelling around the world or do whatever else they wanted to do. I wondered why I couldn’t make any progress and came to the conclusion that I was too exhausted for my engine to get ‘jump started’. I was ‘four lows’ according to the metabolic hair tests which meant my tissue mineral levels were extremely low. I understood that these levels usually took months to increase so any other program that was known as a relative ‘quick fix’, probably wasn’t going to be that effective. I also think that the initial virus I got, damaged my nervous system or brain because my mental ability and stamina decreased. The concentration required was too much.

So for me, I had to do it the long and difficult way. The upside is that I am learning a lot about myself. There is no way I would have become much wiser and self-aware if the Lightning Process had worked for me. For whatever reasons, I feel that I needed to do what I am currently doing. I’m glad it turned out like this. The two programs could not be more opposite.

I would like to hear from anyone else who had experience with the Lightening Process.

Nearly Gave Up while Retracing..

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I have just got through a month of Retracing (or Healing Crisis). I really couldn’t do to much at all and I felt miserable. After a few weeks of this, just like last time, I began to lose faith in my program. I started to question whether the supplements were doing more harm than good. As soon as this lack of faith starts to kick in, it can be a matter of hours before I decide to give up and just stop everything. But I hung in there; staying as calm as possible and just ‘watching’ the symptoms. That is the key, either I reacted negatively to the retracing, adding unnecessary stress, or gracefully continue with what has worked up to this point.

I may have lowered some supplement doses and done some more symptom support, but I stayed true to course.

About a week after this turning point, I came out of it feeling better than before it started.

It takes so long to get use to just quietly dealing with symptoms instead of forcing them to go. We are programmed to believe than and pain or suffering isn’t good and it must be relieved immediately by any means. It’s actually an unhealthy way to go because our bodies never get to do the healing work they are designed to do. We constantly kick the can down the road and can’t understand why we never feel vibrant; always on the lookout for something to stimulate us out of our stupor, like coffee and carbs or dull the pain with booze.

So hang in there and have faith in the program, even if you feel worse than you ever have, because it’s only temporary. Be patient and don’t react – it wastes energy and whatever you get angry with starts to have power over you. Don’t let it in.

I have my third hair re-test due back in a month so that will be interesting. I wonder if this recent retracing episode will show up on it as a dumping of copper or mercury. We’ll see.