Mosaic Holistic Nutrition - Deborah Petrovitch, RHN

09/04/2024

Alongside a cortisol increase, morning sunlight initiates a cascade of positive changes associated with better mood and mental clarity, including an increase in serotonin. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical that boosts your mood, and later, converts to melatonin which helps you sleep. This effect happens even if it's cloudy so try to get outside as soon after waking as possible, even if for a short morning stroll with some deep full breathing. If you can't walk, sit outside facing the rising sun. This is an easy lifestyle practice with awesome returns.

08/29/2024

Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis paired with Nutrition Symptomatology gives insight into the health of the body at a cellular level. Through specific mineral ratios and patterns, it provides valuable information about mineral deficiencies, impaired digestion, liver function, metabolism, detoxification and why fatigue, thyroid dysfunction, acne, or hormone and mood imbalances may be occurring. If you're ready to find out more, comment HTMA or message me for more info.

08/25/2024

Your HTMA test will identify your current metabolic type. Your metabolic type will determine the overall dietary recommendations to provide the necessary macros and customized nutrition plan for your specific needs. If your macros aren’t matched to your metabolism, there are eventual negative outcomes in your mineral levels and health.
Message me for your test no matter where you're located - I can pop a test kit in the mail to you and provide virtual video consultations. Taking a hair sample is very simple and easily mailed.

08/24/2024

Minerals are like the “spark plugs” in our body, they are co-factors for just about every metabolic process in the body. They are essential for our bones and teeth, energy production, nerve and muscle function, pH balance, blood sugar balance, immune function, hormone balance and so on. The body cannot make its own minerals - we need to get them from foods, drinks and supplements.

This is why minerals are the FOUNDATION of health and why I’m using HTMA combined with nutrition with all of my clients.Your mineral matrix in your body will be a HOUSE OF CARDS if it’s not a well built foundation. One card pulled can drop many more.

Gut health and blood sugar handling protocols, even bioidentical hormone therapy – these all become simply bandaids for symptoms if minerals aren’t balanced first.

Often times you may be getting enough minerals, but your body isn’t using them correctly or you are burning through them due to stress. Stress of any kind causes a massive mineral burn especially magnesium. For example, magnesium keeps calcium in solution where your body can shuttle the calcium where it needs to be, like your bones. When calcium is not in solution, it can be deposited in your joints, in your tissues and can form what we call a “Calcium Shell” in HTMA terms. Calcium will wall off access to cells affecting hormone uptake and other dysregulation. Something we really don’t want. There are a hundred other examples like this that portray mineral synergies and antagonists.

I help clients learn how to stop depleting their minerals and how to start replenishing them. If you’d like an HTMA test and nutrition assessment, it doesn’t matter where you are located. Taking a hair sample is very simple and easily mailed and I offer virtual video services.

08/17/2024

MINERAL RATIOS (and what they can tell us on a HTMA test)

Relationships between specific minerals are expressed as ratios which give us the best information about potential imbalances in specific body systems. Each ratio corresponds with a different aspect of your body based on the influences exerted by minerals. Want to know more? I’m a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and HTMA Practitioner. My HTMA & Nutrition Service is at special rates right now. Message me or visit www.mosaicnutrition.ca.

08/12/2024

A chronic mineral imbalance or deficiency often contributes to pain syndromes like fibromyalgia, arthritis, tendonitis and other inflammatory conditions.

When it comes to chronic (ongoing) pain, the individual minerals most often deficient are magnesium, calcium, and potassium.
Magnesium is required for over 300 functions in the body, including the production of energy in the muscles. If you’re not getting enough magnesium, the muscles will spasm and shorten, and you can end up with chronic pain, spasms and cramping.

A potassium deficiency can result in muscle cramping and weakness.

We think of calcium in terms of building strong bones, but it also helps muscles to relax and move. A deficiency in calcium can result in a painful tightening of the muscles.

Minerals can be supplemented through food, and sometimes you need a balanced supplement. It’s not a great idea to take single mineral supplements, except perhaps magnesium. An integrated approach of upgrading food sources, addressing any root cause issues like digestion, stress and heavy metals should be explored as a foundation of balancing your minerals. Test, don’t guess!

01/20/2024

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