𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗩𝗬 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝟯-𝟰 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙨 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚

In today’s installment of a mineral balancing retest case study, we’re going to be looking at an aspect of the mineral balancing approach which truly sets it apart from all other heavy metal detox approaches.

We will be doing this through the lens of a clients repeated hair tests and their elimination of the heavy metal aluminum.

I can say unequivocally that mineral balancing is better than all other metal “detoxes” because we cause heavy metals to be eliminated.

𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮’𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚.

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 is what sets mineral balancing apart from all other metal detox approaches.

Yes, the underlying theory of the mineral system, the interactions of all the elements, how we use nutrients with an understanding of their relationships, and ionic mimicry all also set this approach far apart from others (light years in fact), but without the ability to track and evidence these eliminations, the theory as to why this approach is so great is simply only that – 𝗔 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗥𝗬.

Let’s dive into the way in which we track and measure these metal eliminations, so we can move away from citing screenshots of studies ad nauseum – as if this proves anything, for you specifically – to showing you exactly how much of a heavy metal you eliminated on your mineral balancing program.

🧵 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧

This client’s (15 year old female) mom came to me in early February 2025, and her chief complaint was a history of developmental delays, though she was never diagnosed fully as on the autism spectrum.

Her mom described this to me as “a sprinkle of autism.”

We got her first test back in mid-February and there are some significant imbalances that we can see here in the screenshot of her first test:

- Four Lows Pattern (deep endocrine burnout)
- Low Na/K Ratio (low electrical potential across her cells)
- Double Low Ratio Pattern (low Ca/Mg ratio + low Na/K ratio)
- Low Zinc + Overtly elevated Aluminum (poor tissue biosynthesis + autism trend)

I’m not going to use this thread to dive into the above imbalances and explain what they mean, or even the protocol we used to correct them, but the first test is critical to show you where her aluminum level starts at, in the sequence of two tests I’m going to post in this thread.

𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗬 & 𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗠 𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡⁣
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A thread explaining how we achieved dramatic results with this client 🧵 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗⁣
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This 67 year old female signed up to work with me in January 2024 with five primary things she wanted to work on:⁣
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- Insomnia ⁣
- Osteoporosis ⁣
- Hypothyroidism ⁣
- Constipation⁣
- Canker Sores ⁣
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She had other symptoms but they were more incidental and less persistent than these main five.⁣

She went through many different traditional and alternative healing approaches, most of which did nothing for her.
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It’s important to note as well that she was on a laundry list of supplements to try to address these existing issues.⁣
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Some of these supplements were helping her, but some of them were very contraindicated for her based on the specific findings of her first hair tissue mineral analysis test.⁣
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Specifically, what I’m talking about is the copper supplement she was taking, listed in pic related.⁣
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I’ll discuss why this was a disaster for her in the first htma protocol tweet.⁣

𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙏𝙊𝘾𝙊𝙇 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙈𝙀𝙍𝘾𝙐𝙍𝙔 𝘽𝙄𝙊𝘼𝘾𝘾𝙐𝙈𝙐𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙄𝙉 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙎𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙁𝙄𝙎𝙃 𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙎⁣
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This post was inspired by my conversation with @JoshRainerGold , when he asked me what folks who eat fish consistently should do to prevent Mercury accumulation from the fish they are eating.⁣
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This is NOT a protocol to deal with the mercury already bioaccumulated in your tissues. ⁣
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It is not strong enough to move the needle along that dimension, but it may work really well to prevent any new mercury you’re exposed to from coming into the system.⁣

Bookmark and share this. Here is the protocol anytime you consume fish:⁣
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> 10 - 20mg Zinc ⁣(any chelated form)
> 100-200mcg Selenium ⁣
> 600mcg Iodine (from kelp) ⁣
> 500mg L-Phenylalanine

𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗗𝗠𝗜𝗨𝗠 𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 (& 𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗠):

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝘼𝙥𝙣𝙚𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙤𝙬 𝙁𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙩

A thread 🧵 𝗦𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘:

The mom of the infant was referred to me in August of 2023 by another health care professional for central sleep apnea along with low ferritin (8ng/mL) and a bunch of other symptoms including digestive issues.

The doctors recommended the infant take an iron supplement for the low ferritin, but the mother had read about how low ferritin could be related to other things, rather than strictly iron deficiency, and felt uncomfortable giving her infant supplemental iron.

She also wanted to seek alternative approaches to help with her sleep apnea and digestive issues, for which her doctor had no good answers.

The images in this tweet show proof of what the mother was dealing with in her infant daughter.

I’m going to interpret this test for you here in a thread, through a very different lens than you’ve provided here.

No shade on you at all sir, most people think to use this test through the lens of individual elements, but in my world this is an incorrect and outdated method of htma interpretation.

Let’s dig deeper 🧵🧵🧵 The way I view an htma is primarily with an emphasis on the first four elements and the ratios thereof (calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium).

The reasoning for this is threefold:

1. These four bigger elements (ca, mg, na and k) make up 99% of the mineral content in the body and therefore

2. They are under major homeostatic control via hormones

3. These four major elements and their balance also massively affects the way the rest of the elements are absorbed and utilized in the body

𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙇 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎 & 𝙈𝘼𝙇𝙀/𝙁𝙀𝙈𝘼𝙇𝙀 𝙎𝙀𝙓𝙐𝘼𝙇 𝘿𝙔𝙉𝘼𝙈𝙄𝘾𝙎 & 𝙋𝙊𝙇𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙔⁣
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𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 - especially iron & copper - can help us understand male/female sexual dynamics more completely⁣.

A thread 🧵🧵🧵 In mineral balancing, we prioritize understanding mineral interactions more than anything else.⁣
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To help people heal, we use a hair tissue mineral analysis test to get a reading of a persons entire mineral system (called the Ionome or Metallome in the literature) and then use our knowledge of nutrient and mineral interactions to balance that whole system of elements all at once time.⁣
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𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙢.⁣
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But in order to achieve this goal of balancing the entire mineral system…..⁣
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WE HAVE TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW ALL THE MINERALS INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER.

𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙇 𝘽𝘼𝙇𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘾𝘼𝙎𝙀 𝙎𝙏𝙐𝘿𝙔 𝙄𝙉 𝘼𝙇𝙐𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙐𝙈 𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙈𝙄𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉

This post is about how mineral balancing works to eliminate heavy metals.

In this particular case study we’ll be examining how MB is useful for aluminum detoxification. Test # 1 in our sequence of HTMAs (January 2024):

My own hair test from January of this year.

This test shows a mildly fast metabolic rate (sodium/potassium higher relative to calcium/magnesium) along with fairly solid levels of zinc, selenium and phosphorus.