Are you tired in a way that sleep doesn’t touch? Do you have weight that won’t move no matter how clean you eat? Are you one of those that would sell a kidney for something sweet around 3 pm? Do you describe yourself as flat, foggy, kind of checked out, and every doctor you’ve seen ran a panel and told you everything looks normal?
An HTMA test can reveal what is happening….
Calcium towering over everything else. The calcium-to-phosphorus ratio sitting well above 2.6, which is your slow oxidizer flag. This is slow oxidation, and it’s the majority of everyone!
Here’s what’s actually happening in your body. Your adrenals and thyroid have both downshifted. Low adrenal activity means low aldosterone, which is the hormone that tells the body to hang onto sodium. You eat a ton of salt but your body can’t hold onto it. It runs right through you. Same story with potassium and a sluggish thyroid. Nothing gets retained.
This is where it gets clinically juicy, because sodium and potassium are the body’s solvents. They’re what keeps calcium dissolved and headed where it belongs, which is in the bone.
Strip those solvents down and calcium has nowhere to go but into soft tissue. That’s why you see calcium screaming high in the hair – not because you’re chugging milk. It is because it’s landing in the wrong places. Bone spurs. Calculi. Stiff joints. Calcium is a structural mineral loitering in tissue it was never meant to touch.
Now here’s the landmine I need you to see coming.
Slow oxidizers are poor eliminators. Their energy is low, things move slowly, and metals do not leave easily. That’s not a clean body. That’s a body too depleted to release anything. The metals there but they are stuck, waiting for you to have enough juice to move them. Which is exactly why you don’t come in swinging with something aggressive on a slow oxidizer. I would be trying to push open a door the body is actively holding shut.
This is the moment the HTMA earns its keep because I get to say, “You’re not crazy, your metabolism has downshifted and this is why….” And this exact thing is why functional medicine has a place, or should have a place, in every person’s life because getting to the root of the problem should be on every physicians mind with EVERY patient.
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