50 years ago, biochemist Dr. Paul Eck founded Mineral Nutritional Balancing (MNB), which uses specific nutrients to bring body chemistry back into balance.
Dr. Paul Eck
Eck blended the works of soil scientist Dr. William Albrecht, Stress Theory by Dr. Hans Selye, Metabolic Typing by Dr George Watson, the Autonomic Nervous System Theory by Dr. Melvin Page, and more to provide a whole systems wide and holistic approach to understanding the human body and how it functions optimally when minerals are balanced.
This all based on the idea that energy is the most important thing for health. If we do not have energy, we do not have happiness, health, or motivation for much of anything in life.
Minerals are the spark plugs to life. They allow electricity to flow through the body efficiently. They are major factors in whether we feel happy, energized, motivated, and grounded or depleted, exhausted, depressed, and fried.
In the 1970’s Eck came across Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), a non-invasive biopsy that shows the levels of minerals and metals being excreted into the hair.
At the time it was primarily used to view heavy metal levels, but through extensive research and analyzing over 100,000 tests, Dr. Eck discovered he could identify the energy level of a system based on the interrelationships between minerals and nutrients.
When a body is metabolically strong and resilient, it is much less likely to develop symptoms, disease or dis-ease.
In MNB, instead of focusing on the symptoms or direct cause of symptoms (eg virus or parasite) we look a layer deeper to understand why the body might be susceptible to the pathogen (eg parasitic overgrowth) in the first place.
Minerals are stardust.
They are the periodic table level of basic building blocks of matter.
How minerals balance together and relate to each other, determines how efficiently energy moves throughout our cells and bodies, which is deterministic for the energy available to run every single system of the body.
the wheel of mineral relationships
We must look at the body as a living system, where all parts affect the others to truly foster holistic health and well being .
Minerals also must be viewed as a whole system, not just examined through individual levels.
When I interpret an HTMA I am looking at the ratios and relationships between the minerals. Therefore, when I make supplement recommendations I am making very personalized, unique to you recommendations based upon the mineral reactions and levels happening in your body at the time you took your hair sample. This is the power of MNB, how personalized it can be to your exact mineral status.
“Minerals run enzymes. Enzymes run hormones. And hormones affect how we perceive the world.”
The balance and amount of minerals in your body’s tissues are at the root of the amount of energy your body has to grow, expand, heal, recuperate from depletion, hold boundaries, communicate from cell to cell, and so much more.
If you’d like to learn more about Mineral Nutritional Balancing, you can find more information at the following links:
When you get work with me we utilize your HTMA results to determine what supplements and dietary recommendations would be best for you and your healing.
