What is really confusing to me in nutritional balancing using hair testing is that when you are slow oxidizer and you are in stage of stress where your adrenals can keep up. You will have normal or even higher Na/K ratio. Ideal is 2.5 and in that case they don't give you copper. Makes sense right. You are slow oxidizer you don't give more copper. YOu give everything else like some magnesium, B vitamins, vit C, zinc, chromium, selenium etc.. To basically support adrenals so it can handle stress and detoxing excess of copper and other heavy metals etc..
But in later stages of adrenal burnout you will see on a hair test lower Na/K ratio than is ideal and in that case they will give you copper to rise that sodium.
That doesn't make any sense to me because you can be in that burnout stage due to bad copper toxicity. So if you force sodium increase by stressing the system even more with copper to rise sodium levels how that can work long term? Poisoning the body even more to just have better hair test results..
In that case what makes more sense to me is what Helen said. Forcing stress and therefore increasing sodium, but by exercise not by taking the thing that is the problem in a first place..
Would love to hear answer to what I just said from Paul Eck. Wilson I know he liked more manganese to rise sodium. They give shit loads of manganese when they push zinc in. Like for me they recomended something like 80mg zinc and 25mg manganese.. But copper as well on second test where my sodium dropped. They recomended 2.2mg copper...
To me it makes to no sense.. Helen approach makes sense. Supporting adrenals with everything else so it is able to rise sodium naturally by adrenaline from exercise so the body can increase ceruloplasmin and use that copper..
Nutritional balancing people recommend doing nothing. They say relax as much as possible and the body will start dumping copper. But I think it will never happen. The funny part is that they recommend shit loads of sauna and coffee enemas as well and they are stressful detox methods..
Sauna is relaxing only at the start when your body gets warm. That is crazy powerful relaxant. BUT once you start overheat and your heartbeat goes up and you start sweating that is clear sign of increase in stress hormone production..
Same thing loading the system with caffeine. It has nothing to do with relaxing. It is stress to the body it pushes the liver work hard..
So they recommend relaxing, meditation etc.. but the core of detox are stress methods..
They say sweating from sauna is better than from exercise because you are more relaxed and you detox more toxins, but there was plenty of papers showing that when you move your body = you move not just blood, but also lymph fluid around the body you detox much more toxins than sitting on your ass in a sauna..
Anyways since I stopped riding bike and more relaxing my health is going downhill faster than when I was stressing my body like crazy with manual labor job, exercise etc..
Only during that time I made a mistake that I completely forgot about nutritional balancing and I was not supporting the system with everything it needs..
Basically what I think what we should do in burnout due to copper(and other toxin overload) is doing basically bodybuidling diet similar to diet from Helen in electrolyte protocol. Rice, veggies, lean meats, some fruits. Supps to support adrenals like I said. and for detox ideally exercise to stimulate flow of all fluids, and intestine for pooping as well and copper intake I would say the more you exercise/detox the more copper you can handle and vise versa if you do nothing and sit on your ass(which is bad idea because your metabolism just goes lower and lower I experienced it again and again and I will never ever do that again) your copper intake should be maybe what is in white rice and veggies.. At the same time you need to lower B vitamins, vit C, zinc everything as well.. Otherwise you are just redistributing toxins and killing yourself..
What really sucks is that it took me 10 years to really realize this. I am simply that dumb dude who has to be punched 10 times in the face instead of once to realize that it really is not good idea to gt punched in the face hehe..
Winter is hard. You are cold, metabolism crashes, you can't be outside exercising and sweating in the heat. I am barely surviving this winter.. I know for fucking sure that if I am in this health state the next winter and I am in Czech Rep. I am done..
So this year till winter I have some serious work to do if I want any chance to live. At least somewhat average life...
