[Kinko]

Has anyone tried this test kit? Or can you recommend other inexpensive ways to check mineral levels?

https://www.bodybio.com/storecategory112.aspx

[Thomas the Rhymer]

(11-19-2016 05:06 PM)Kinko Wrote:  

Has anyone tried this test kit? Or can you recommend other inexpensive ways to check mineral levels?

https://www.bodybio.com/storecategory112.aspx

I don't consider the taste test reliable, but if you have the right genetics then minerals should taste 'better' in deficiency states. That said, from what I've observed, patients tend to not be able to clearly figure out what they are deficient in, which leads them to eating all sorts of weird things like chalk when what they are deficient in something else entirely (most commonly they are deficient in iron). So I'm not sure if having a specific taste test for every mineral will truly work well in the presence of a deficiency - everything might taste better. You'd need to have the right genetic switches to be able to taste a specific deficiency, and if you don't have that switch, then you won't be able to taste that deficiency even if you have a deficiency.

You can probably jury-rig your own test kit by following their chart and just buying the individual ingredients:
https://www.bodybio.com/BodyBio/docs/Liq...eChart.pdf

I can't really advise you where to get the ingredients but you'd need to get powder form or dispersable tabs, and they should be sulphur-free (since sulphur has a peculiar taste of its own). Presumably your more enthusiastic supplement retailers could help you. Mix a small amount of powder, or disperse one tablet, with distilled water (it must be either distilled or highly purified through reverse osmosis, since water naturally contains minerals) and you can make your own taste test kits, while still having enough raw ingredients to use as supplements.

[Kinko]

Hmmm. Well I do have a zinc supplement that is 100% pure (no fillers at all). I do have iodine (Lugols 5%, and also SSKI) and I am confused how to use those two. Also I have pure potassium crystals (MSM), and I have pure magnesium crystals (for "magnesium oil").

Unfortunately my selenium supplement has fillers in it. The others, chromium, maganese - I still have to look into for getting pure sources.

There are three reviews of this BodyBio mineral test kit, on Amazon dot com. I think this is a product I will order and try out. It is under $40...

[Kinko]

Furthermore, I am confused about how the test kit includes copper, because I am under the immpression that copper is unhealthy for us, and copper cancels out the effectiveness of zinc (and oddly, a lot of zinc supplements include copper in them).

Here is a book I read that describes how copper is unhealthy to ingest, and this is the same book where I first heard of these mineral testing kits:

https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Voltage-H...1453649166

[Thomas the Rhymer]

(11-20-2016 11:10 AM)Kinko Wrote:  

Furthermore, I am confused about how the test kit includes copper, because I am under the immpression that copper is unhealthy for us/dp/1453649166

Copper is not unhealthy, it is required for healthy body functioning. Wikipedia describes copper deficiency nicely:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_deficiency

That said, like zinc, copper is unhealthy in very high doses.

Both copper and zinc are required by the human body but they interfere with one another, especially in absorption (they seem to use the same transport system to cross out of the gut into the blood stream). Too much zinc can cause copper deficiency, which is why many zinc supplements have added on copper.