Custom Nutrition
Meeting Your Unique Nutritional Needs

You are unique, and so are your body's nutritional requirements. Custom nutrition supports your body's unique nutritional needs.

"Roger Williams, Ph.D., published research data showing that children of the same family had significantly different nutritional needs. One child required several times more of a particular nutrient than the other. Adults of the same age and size in similar environmental settings also showed several-fold differences in their nutritional requirements in order to maintain health. Dr. Williams referred to this as "biochemical individuality."

Dr. Williams is well-known for his book "Biochemical Individuality," originally published in 1956. This information is as relevant today as it was back when Dr. Williams first published it.

So, what does this mean for you?

Well, for one, if you're buying vitamin supplements off the shelf in the grocery store, a health food store, or even a top quality nutritional program that's all natural, derived from whole foods and is the best the industry has to offer, you may NOT be getting what your body needs.

... approach to nutritional supplements. Each of us is unique metabolically and biochemically. And as Dr. Williams demonstrated, nutritional needs can vary significantly from one individual to another. Therefore, you don't know if you're getting optimal nutrition until you get tested.

You may feel great, or not so great, and wonder if it's really worth the time, effort and expense to get a lab test to determine your nutritional needs. How much of a difference is it really going to make? After all, vitamins can't hurt you, can they? If you take too much, your body just eliminates them, right?

Well, here are a few things you need to know about vitamin and mineral supplementation:

• Taking too many vitamins, or the wrong combination of vitamins, is just as bad as not taking enough.

• Vitamins and minerals work together synergistically and antagonistically. In other words, minerals may interfere with the absorption of certain nutrients and enhance or increase the absorption of other nutrients. "The majority of multiple vitamin mineral supplements currently available today contain many antagonistic relationships that ultimately will reduce the clinical effectiveness of the product."

• If you take too much calcium, it can lead to a phosphorus and magnesium deficiency. These symptoms are nearly identical to the symptoms of a calcium deficiency. If you continue to take more calcium, you'll continue to lose more magnesium. This causes an increased retention of sodium, and ultimately, a vitamin A deficiency.

• Taking zinc over a long period of time can cause a copper and/or iron deficiency and a sodium/potassium imbalance. Too much zinc can cause the same symptoms associated with too little zinc - lowered resistance, fatigue, hair loss, prostatitis and vitamin D deficiency.

• If you take iron by itself over a long period of time, it can cause anemia because iron needs copper to be properly utilized. When copper is not present in the proper amount, the iron accumulates in the tissues instead of in the hemoglobin molecule.

• Too much copper and iron can cause a vitamin C deficiency. Too much vitamin C when tissue levels of copper are marginal can cause symptoms of a vitamin C deficiency.

• Vitamin B1 is antagonistic to vitamin B2. Too much vitamin B1 can cause a deficiency of vitamin B2 and too much vitamin B2 can cause a deficiency of vitamin B1.

It makes you wonder ...

• How are you supposed to know what to take to get everything in the proper balance and keep it in the proper balance?
• How can some companies say that EVERYONE needs to take THEIR product?
• Are you doing yourself a little harm by guessing what supplements you should be taking or listening to a vitamin store clerk tell you what she thinks you need or deciding on what to take based upon a book you read?

You get the picture.

So how are you really supposed to figure out what supplements to take and how much?

Custom nutrition addresses your unique nutritional needs. By now, you probably understand why what's good for your mother or father, your brothers or sisters, your children, your neighbors or friends is not what's good for you.

What kind of a test gives the most accurate information about what your body needs?

There are basically three kinds of tests available: hair, blood or urine.

Let's take a look at each.

A hair analysis indicates the overall level of minerals stored in your body over a period of time. It reveals the metabolic activity that occurs within the cells of your body and provides a blueprint of the biochemistry occurring during the period of hair growth and development. In other words, hair provides a record of past as well as present levels of trace elements in your body.

Over the past fifteen years, hair mineral testing has been extensive. Hair tissue mineral analysis is supported by an impressive body of literature in a variety of respected national and international scientific publications. "In the past twenty years, there are well over a thousand references in peer-reviewed journals that document and support the reliability of hair mineral analysis."

A blood test gives you information about your mineral levels at the time of the test only. The blood levels of minerals in your body fluctuate with your mood, what you've eaten and the time of the day. So a blood test for minerals will tell you only what the mineral status of your blood was at the time the test was taken.

Your blood must maintain a certain level of minerals for you to live and mineral levels only fluctuate within a very narrow range. This is called homeostasis. So, for example, you may be very deficient in calcium and suffer from osteoporosis, but because of homeostasis, the severity of the calcium deficiency will not show up in your blood. Also, if you have been exposed to high levels of a toxic metal, such as lead, 30 to 40 days after your exposure, a blood test may not show elevated blood levels of lead because the body removes the lead from the blood as a protective measure and deposits it in places like the liver, bones, teeth and hair.

A urine test measures the minerals that are being excreted from you body at the time of the test. It doesn't tell you what levels of minerals your body needs, has used or stored in your tissues.

What about vitamins?

According to the late Dr. Henry Schroeder, trace elements (minerals) are "...more important factors in human nutrition than vitamins. The body can manufacture many vitamins, but it cannot produce necessary trace minerals or get rid of many possible excesses."

Dr. Emmanuel Cheraskin, in his book, Diet and Disease, states that "Minerals have interrelationships with every other nutrient. Without optimum mineral levels within the body, the other nutrients are not effectively utilized."

Minerals are also essential for the formation of hormones and for enzyme activity in the body.

Yes.

Minerals interact not only with each other but also with vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Minerals influence each of these factors, and they, in turn, influence mineral status....

It is extremely rare that a mineral imbalance develops without a corresponding imbalance in the synergistic vitamin(s). It is also rare for an imbalance in the utilization or activity of a vitamin to occur without affecting the synergistic mineral(s).

Examples

• Vitamin C affects iron absorption and reduces copper retention.
• Boron and iron influence the status of vitamin B2.
• Vitamin B2 affects the relationship between calcium and magnesium.
• Vitamin B1 enhances sodium retention.
• Vitamin B12 enhances iron and cobalt absorption
• Vitamin A enhances the utilization of zinc, while antagonizing vitamins D and E.
• Protein intake will affect zinc status, etc.

Therefore, evaluating mineral status provides good clues of vitamin status and requirements.

You will receive a 10 page report that includes

Graphs of your

• Nutritional element levels
• Toxic element levels
• Additional trace element levels
• Significant ratios of your nutritional element levels
• Important ratios of toxic elements

Explanation of

• Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
• Understanding the graphs
• Your metabolic type
• Your nutrient mineral levels
• Your nutrient mineral ratios
• Your toxic metal levels
• Your toxic metal ratios

Dietary Suggestions

• Guidelines for your metabolic type
• Foods you should increase in your diet
• Foods you should avoid

Recommendation for

• Nutritional supplements
• Re-evaluation

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