Looking for a Practitioner to Help with Copper Toxicity?
This page offers important considerations and questions to ask
Since launching the www.coppertoxic.com website in 2014 and leading the way in bringing copper toxicity awareness and education to the world over the past decade, it's great to see the increasing number of practitioners now talking about copper toxicity and adding copper toxicity support to their services. However, like with any profession, experience matters!
Having helped train many hundreds of today's HTMA and copper-literate practitioners, this is, of course, the very work I specialize in (my HTMA service menu is available here). However, as I only have limited hours each day and run an extremely busy practice in addition to all my time involved in advocacy, research, and education projects, I'm happy to offer options to people looking for qualified practitioners. (As I receive countless patient cases landing on my desk previously under the care of someone else who were not properly helped, or who ordered the wrong type of HTMA because they assumed all hair analysis was the same, I care that people receive qualified support and guidance from the start. There is, unfortunately, a lot of 'nonsense' being promoted online, especially when it comes to HTMA and addressing copper toxicity).
No matter who you choose to work with, whether myself or anyone else, this page provides basic yet important considerations to keep in mind (and to ask) when choosing a practitioner.
Do they use HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis)?
How many years experience?
Are they looking beyond just copper?
How personalized is their protocol and their attention to each person's bio-individual situation?
Do they have significant conflicts of interest?
Are they able to explain the mental health connections to HTMA patterns?
How do they adjust recommendations between overt vs hidden copper toxicity?
Said another way, watch out for these red flags:
Reliance only on the blood level while ignoring or dismissing HTMA (cell and tissue levels)
A focus on just trying to "detox" or lower copper without considering the body's complete mineral profile.
Product recommendations that come mainly all from the same company or are $ incentivized (conflict of interest).
Reading chart results at face value, or relying solely on lab recommendations without considering individual symptoms, medications, health history, etc.
Pitting the ARL lab against the TEI lab as if one is superior, rather than recognizing the advancements and benefits offered by both labs. Both of these labs have brought key advancements to HTMA and are at the forefront of the HTMA testing and nutritional balancing fields.
Specializing in copper toxicity for the past decade, I’ve worked with many thousands of patients and have trained many of today’s HTMA and copper literate practitioners. While I continue to work with new clients, there are certainly other excellent practitioners out there for you to choose from as well. I am familiar with most of those who’d be considered as qualified. However, I am also aware of many who are making claims of healing or expertise, or who promote HTMA services that I think warrant a lot more caution. My career has been dedicated to advancing education and awareness of copper toxicity and advocating for industry integrity of authentic HTMA (www.htmavirtualsummit.com) and I deeply care that, no matter who a person chooses to work with, they receive correct advice and qualified guidance.
Whoever you work with, make sure they are truly experienced. How they answer the above questions will tell you a lot. Also remember, most HTMA practitioners are well equipped to work remotely. In that sense, more important than geographic location is working with whomever you feel most comfortable with.
Wishing you success in your healing journey!
Rick Fischer
Founder of www.CopperToxic.com
Leading Copper Toxicity Researcher, Nutrition Instructor, Clinical HTMA Practitioner, HTMA Instructor
PS: You can explore our various HTMA Service Advantages and what sets us apart, at www.mineralsandhealth.com/advantage
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