The following original articles offer a better understanding of human health, nutrition & psychology.
HAIR ANALYSIS (HTMA) vs BLOOD: WHICH TEST IS BETTER FOR UNDERSTANDING MINERAL STATUS?
By Rick Fischer, 2018
Blood offers many essential medical markers, and so of course it most certainly has its purpose for testing. However, relying on a blood test to determine one's mineral or heavy metal status is, stated quite bluntly, a half-blind approach. A key concept, so simple and yet so vastly overlooked, is that the nature of blood is homeostatic, always working to return itself to a...
ADVANCING NUTRITIONAL THOUGHT VIA THE MINERAL - MIND -BODY - SOUL INTERCONNECTION
By Rick Fischer, June 2018
As our minerals regulate nearly every function of the body, and as mineral imbalances can be linked to nearly every dis-ease, we cannot ignore the importance of minerals when we talk about health or nutrition. Yet, most of the health field turns a blind eye to minerals (let alone nutrition as a whole), happy to prescribe medication instead when a problem...
THE DARKER SIDE OF SUPPLEMENTING VITAMIN D
By Rick Fischer, May 2016
When one comes to understand the effect that excess Vitamin D in supplementation form has on other minerals (as this article explains), we then begin to see its more dangerous side. The truth is, the recent herd mentality fad of blindly pushing and supplementing Vitamin D pills is putting millions of people (in fact, the vast majority of the population) at high risk for everything from...
COPPER TOXICITY: IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS FOR HEALING
By Rick Fischer, January 2023
When you tear a muscle, you don't just go to the physiotherapist once and have it healed - you typically have several follow up sessions, just like is standard for the treatment of most conditions. Yet, when it comes to copper toxicity, there's this idea that simply taking some special supplement is all that's needed to solve and reverse one of the most complex and misunderstood conditions of our time!...
HOW IN-UTERO AND CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENTS LEAD TO MINERAL IMBALANCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN ADULTS
By Rick Fischer, 2016
As parents we want the best for our children - raising them healthy, self-aware, confident, feeling worthy, and raised in an environment that instills every possibility for their own future success... Our words, love, encouragement and lessons in life all can help in this endeavor. However, there are at least two deeper undercurrents than run in all of us that can so easily...
THE NUTRITIONAL LINK TO
RELATIONSHIP STRUGGLES
(A Guide to the Powerful Role Minerals Play in Regulating Emotions)
By Rick Fischer, November 2018
There currently exists a gaping disconnect between the fields of mental health and nutrition, with neither side acknowledging in a mainstream way how one affects the other. This is especially true when it comes to relationships, countless numbers of which have unsuspectingly fallen victim to the ravages of nutritional imbalances....
DETOX YOUR BODY & IMPROVE HEALTH WITH INFRARED SAUNA THERAPY
By Rick Fischer, 2015
The use of heat and sweating as a method of healing and wellness has been used around the world for thousands of years. Today, the most commonly recognized form is the sauna. Here we'll look at Infrared Saunas and how they offer one of the most important investments you can make in your health...
15 COMMON MYTHS THAT HOLD BACK WIDER ACCEPTANCE OF HTMA AND COPPER TOXICITY
By Rick Fischer, 2024
From false ideas such as "just take zinc to detox copper", "copper toxicity only affects women", "HTMA is a not a valid test", "a standard blood test will accurately show mineral imbalances", and so many more, these myths have added to why both HTMA and copper toxicity remain misunderstood...
SUPPORTIVE TOOLS FOR EMOTIONAL AWARENESS AND HEALING
By Rick Fischer, 2015
When we talk about healing, we must understand that our biology is affected by our physical body, our energetic body, our mental body, and our spiritual body. Much of the healing work offered through Integrative Health Coaching is based on balancing mineral levels which play a primary role in all...
WHY "JUST TAKING ZINC" IS NOT THE ANSWER TO DETOXING COPPER!
By Rick Fischer, July 2021
...the common message that "you just take zinc to detox copper"... this is a misconception that keeps being repeated over the years, largely because, at an elementary level, copper and zinc do have an antagonistic relationship. In one of the largest ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING YOUR LIVER
By Rick Fischer, January 2023
Supporting and detoxifying your liver is essential for overall health and well-being. The liver is the primary detoxification organ in your body, and it's responsible for filtering toxins, chemicals, and other harmful substances out of your bloodstream. Beyond that well-recognized role however, the liver has numerous..
NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES AND ESSENTIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE VEGAN (An Evidence Based Nutritional Perspective)
By Rick Fischer, 2016
Concern for the ethical treatment of animals, protecting the environment, living virtuously, feeling spiritually 'lighter', and fueling oneself nutritiously are fundamental reasons why people may choose the vegan diet. Most vegans are, admirably, very health...
HOW YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS CONTROLS YOUR HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS
By Rick Fischer, 2015
We are all running on ‘programs’ – messages and patterns we picked up early in life that control us, for good or for bad, as adults. Holding on to hidden negative emotions and patterns can affect us in various aspects of life, from repeated disappointments in relationships and career to...
ADRENAL FATIGUE
By Rick Fischer, January 2016
Adrenal conditions are largely ignored in Western medicine, despite a tremendous number of health problems stemming from adrenal insufficiency / adrenal hypo-function and burnout. Stress is very often at the root of such disorders, however there are numerous other contributing factors that can also...
COVID-19
(Moving from Societal Panic to Nutritional Self-Empowerment)
By Rick Fischer, March 2020
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