Clinical research indicates that hair levels of specific elements, particularly toxic elements, correlate with pathological disorders. For such elements, the levels in the hair provide a superior indication of body stores opposed to blood or urine specimens. This is one reason hair element tests are preferred for drug testing and forensics.
Many critics believe that the hair analysis is NOT a valid testing procedure, but Dr. Hull firmly believes that because the hair analysis is so highly respected for drug testing and in forensics, it is just as accurate when applied to nutrition and alternative methodologies.
Drug and chemical residues, toxins, heavy metals, and radiation present in the body embed in hair fiber proteins. Hair has the advantage of long-term memory. It's a permanent record, like tree rings. A three-inch strand of human hair can provide a six-month history of the elements present inside the body because head hair grows at an average rate of one-half inch a month.
Amid outside, polluted environments, accurate decisions to clean up toxic spills cannot be made without performing soil and water analyses of the effected areas. So it is with a hair analysis for the human body. The hair analysis identifies the root causes of illness. Americans, alone, are exposed to more than 70,000 chemicals daily, with 14,000 of those chemicals in our food supply.
The key to a good hair analysis is in the interpretation - a lost art amid traditional medicine, yet a critical step in disease recovery.