Did you know how much YOUR HAIR can tell about your HEALTH? #functionalmedicine #shorts

Name: Did you know how much YOUR HAIR can tell about your HEALTH? #functionalmedicine #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-05-27T14:00:10+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this short video, the speaker explains that hair reflects the minerals and heavy metals present in the body over an extended period, making it a…

27 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker explains that hair reflects the minerals and heavy metals present in the body over an extended period, making it a useful indicator of long‑term mineral status compared to blood tests, which only capture a snapshot of the day. Hair analysis can reveal overall mineral levels, detect excess heavy metals, and highlight imbalances. The speaker notes that low mineral levels in hair may signal poor digestion, and that functional‑medicine practitioners can use hair testing as part of broader functional assessments.

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Hair contains minerals that were in your body in the last period of time, so they're great for mineral levels as opposed to, let's say, the blood. Now you could get mineral levels and some other markers from the blood, but they're more what's going on that day. So we want how is it over time. So the hair gives us over time mineral levels, heavy metals, of course, lots of metals that are too high. Some of these minerals need to be more in balance. Low minerals could mean that you have poor digestion, and there's other sort of functional assessments that can be done with hair.