WHY TEST FOR MINERALS?

All living cells depend on minerals for proper function and maintenance. They are the most important factors in maintaining all physiological processes, are constituents of the teeth, bones, tissues, blood, muscle, and nerve cells.

Minerals are very important in keeping the blood and tissue fluids from becoming too acid or too alkaline, and they allow other nutrients to pass into the bloodstream, and aid in transporting nutrients to the cells. A slight change in the blood concentration of important minerals can rapidly endanger life.

The human body needs to maintain the proper balance of all minerals in order to function optimally. The balance depends on the levels of different minerals in the body, as well as specific ratios of certain mineral levels to one another. The levels of each mineral have a specific effect of every other mineral in the body. An imbalance of any mineral or ratio can begin the process of an illness if not corrected.

Frequent CAUSES OF A MINERAL IMBALANCE

• Diets high in processed foods, refined carbohydrates and sugars, strict vegetarian diets or other exclusive diets.
• The use of vitamin and mineral supplementation that is inadequate for your body's needs
• Medications
• Birth control pills
• Stress , pollution, work and environmental toxins
• genetics