hair analysis results

well, i went ahead and did the hair analysis thing with a naturopath friend of mine.
it finally came back and we met up last week.

she said " i think i konw whats causing your colitis" .... to which i smirked, hmphfed, and shook my head in disbelief.
yea sure i thought....

well i dont know if any of you know this or have access to this information... but i found out what minerals my body has too much of and too little of.
my sodium and potassium are off the charts. so high its crazy.
the chart goes to 42 for potassium and im 192. OMG! ***?
and sodium is 176.
whatever that means.

it means that some gastrointestinal things are happeniong with some hydrochloric acid in my tummy etc... etc.. blah blah blah...

do any of you fellow UC'ers have high levels of sodium and potassium?
just curious to see if there is any relevance and who better to ask...

i personally do not see how stuff in my tummy or whatever can affect an auto immune colon problem.
but im not a dr.

she did not try to sell me any supplements, but does want me to change my diet a bit for reducing sodium and potassium obviously.

well, just thought id share and see if any of you have same thing going on or if its all just not related.

I had this test done a few years back, I think mine showed high sodium and low potassium which the lady nutritionist said was an indicator of a lot of stress going in the body. I certainly was under a lot of stress at the time both emotionally and physically with the colitis. She gave me a few supplements to take to help reduce the amount of stress and help to correct some of the deficiencies like calcium, magnesium, zinc. Nothing really worked though but it was maybe because I didn't follow it through properly.

I don't know about sodium, but my potassium is low and I have been hospitalized for it before

One thing Kazygirl you have to remember when it comes to seeking alternative treatments: you HAVE to get past the idea that you have an immune disorder. That is one diagnosis made by Western medicine. Not trying to say that you in fact don't have an immune disorder like the rest of us and UC is explained that way. I'm just saying that other modalities of medicine have other explanations for it and one might not have anything to do with the other.

Chinese medicine calls this disease in most people's cases a Spleen Qi deficiency. Ayurveda calls it a Pitta imbalance. These diagnosis show the same symptoms as modern UC or Crohns or IBS and were being treated years and years ago without Western meds and surgeries and such. Your gastro, unless he/she is well-versed in alternative stuff, will probably disregard the hair analyisis because that has nothing to do with their field of study. It's rare when I take stuff to my GI that they actually know anything about it.

That's great you sought out other testings. There's something to be said about all that and if it eventually helps your condition, the more the better. Just think outside the box is all...