How is stress negatively impacting your life? I will start with an advanced nutritional approach based on Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.
This unique Laboratory test reflects how minerals relate to your stress reaction. We can combine nutrition balancing with lifestyle approaches such as meditation, the power of breathing, and relaxation for the body, mind, and spirit to calm the inner side of you.
Are you nutrient deficient? How to find out! You can take a hair sample from the back of the head and send it to a hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) laboratory for analysis.
Because of that, your hair can reveal if you’ve been using drugs like opioids, cocaine, amphetamines, and cannabis. While a urine test will reveal if you’ve used drugs in the last several days, hair testing can show if you’ve used drugs over the past 3 months.
Mineral Balancing
Mineral balance in the body can tell us how stressed the body has been for how long. Stress is a major driver of digestive issues and can prevent the body from healing.
STRESS
- Acute Stress. Acute stress is the most common form of stress. …
- Chronic Stress. Chronic stress occurs when stressors are persistent and prolonged. …
- Episodic Acute Stress.
- Emotional Stress.
- Physical Stress.
- Environmental Stress.
- Psychological Stress.
Influencing Factors:
- Stress, chronic stress, overwhelming Stress
- Poor diet
- Lack of exercise
- Smoking, alcohol
- Pesticides, GMO
- Water contamination treated with fluoride causes toxicity and reduces minerals.
- Infection can trigger stress and lead to depletion of minerals
- Toxic chemicals used in household industry can interfere with the body’s ability to absorb minerals
Stress- if under stress ” fight or flight” response that causes anger and anxiety, blocking you from your dreams and success.
Chronic stress-
Calcium Shell can occur due to an emotional trauma or chronic stress the body uses Calcium to protect the cell from stress response. This is why we can often feel emotionally dead inside when we have Calcium shell.
The Calcium Shell
Calcium is an important mineral pattern that can be measured through a hair tissue mineral analysis test.
When Calcium is elevated, it is how body uses minerals to protect us from stress and shield us from perceived threats. Protection and survival are always the body’s priority, but this protection can have unwanted side effects.
The calcium shell is a sign of emotional overwhelm from long-standing stress and past trauma. It is a protective, coping mechanism to shield someone from feeling their painful feelings or being harmed by the world. A shield, a safety mechanism from outside threats.
If High or elevated Calcium circulating can be deposited in the soft tissue, where it doesn’t belong, may cause inflammation and symptoms such as hypothyroidism, poor dental health, fibromyalgia, arthritis, kidney stones, bone spurs, grey hair, chronic fatigue, joint and muscle pain, depression, brain fog, numbness, withdrawal and poor circulation.
High Calcium and the heart
- Artery stiffness – when elevated calcium levels cause arteries to become stiff and less elastic, which can lead to high blood pressure, angina (chest pain), and heart failure.
- Plague builds up – when Calcium can accumulate within the plaque, the cholesterol-filled deposits that form inside arteries this can further narrow the arteries which risk blood clots, heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest.
Calcium is a very calming mineral and slows everything down, slowing metabolism led to constipation, weight gain, and gut disturbances and put the nervous system into frozen state, the body builds Calcium as a protective state, hard shell made of Calcium.
When deep distress and overwhelm are kept buried inside, emotional and physical healing will be impaired. And the condition could get worse with added stress.
When calcium does not go to the right place (bones and teeth), the body displays signs of calcium deficiency, even though there is an overload.
Osteoporosis, osteopenia, and dental issues can be a result of the body protecting itself after massive stress.
There are many healthier ways to cope and better ways to protect oneself. But the calcium shell will persist unless it is addressed and broken up.
Breaking up a calcium shell is done very slowly because a lot of emotional symptoms can arise. It is advised to work with a skilled practitioner to do this.
But addressing the stress and trauma that created the shell will bring the best results. We need to feel safe outside of our shells to go out into the world with curiosity and trust.
Not a lot of people know about the calcium shell, and it can cause symptoms like constipation, sugar cravings, hormonal imbalances, brain fog, anxiety, cold hands and feet, fibroids, and more..
As the shell is broken up and the calcium moves back into the bone, it can cause increased joint pain, migraines and heighten emotions. This is a detox reaction. That’s why going slow is advised. And is a process that requires support and self-kindness.
When a calcium shell shows up on a hair mineral analysis test, it’s a clue that emotional work needs to be part of the healing plan.
When you become aware that this is an issue, the right kind of healing can begin.
If you want to measure the levels of calcium in your body, blood tests are not a great way because they give you a reading for one day only. The HTMA shows the trend over 3 months and level of Calcium in the blood does not tell us where the Calcium is being deposited.
The HTMA tells us if calcium is low in the body and needs support or if there’s a shell that needs to be broken up.
At Nutrition: Living Naturally, I am committed to empowering you to achieve your optimal health by nurturing your mind, body, and spirit. Through personalised nutrition and lifestyle strategies, I focus on supporting you as a whole person — not just addressing isolated symptoms but uncovering and addressing the root causes of your health concerns.
A sample Laboratory Test Result from a Hair sample
