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  • Hair Mineral Analysis Test: Benefits, Cost & My Results | Podcast with Jill Norris
    Jun 25 2025
    Hair Mineral Analysis Test: Prevention at Its Best Join me for this insightful podcast episode with Jill Norris, RN, as we dive into the results of my own Hair Mineral Analysis Test (HMAT). Jill shares her experience helping thousands of clients over the past 3 years and explains how the minerals stored in our hair tissues provide a clear map of what’s happening in our body, especially with our endocrine system (adrenals and thyroid). You’ll also learn how hair mineral analysis tests can guide detox protocols using atom-sized minerals to safely chelate (remove) heavy metals from the body. What Is a Hair Mineral Analysis Test? A hair mineral analysis test (also called HMAT or mineral hair test) measures the levels of key minerals and toxic metals stored in your hair tissue. It’s different from a blood test because it shows what your body has been storing long term not just what’s circulating in your blood at the moment. This simple, non-invasive test can reveal deeper patterns of deficiency, toxicity, and hormonal imbalance that are easy to miss through standard lab work. Key Moments during our interview: 0:00 Intro – What *is* Hair Mineral Analysis? 0:04 Meet Jill Norris, RN & Her Recovery Story 1:05 Return to Eidon & Learning the Test 1:28 Why Jill Studied Hair Analysis 2:01 Minerals 101: Na/K Pumps & Cell Energy 2:49 Sodium‑Potassium Ratio (2.4 Target) 3:22 First Priority: Balancing Electrolytes 4:04 Hidden Heavy Metals in Hair Samples 5:33 Detox Pathways: Bowel, Hydration, Sauna 5:51 Jini’s Hair Test – Travel‑Stress Context 7:37 Food, Sleep & Immune Stress Links 8:42 Old‑School vs Modern Lab Reference Ranges 11:09 Significant Ratios & Fight‑or‑Flight Flag 12:12 Low Na/Mg = Chronic Adrenal Fatigue 13:46 Salt Cravings & Practical Electrolyte Tips 14:28 High Calcium & Hard‑Water Factors 19:14 “Calcium Shell” & Past Trauma 22:51 Copper, Estrogen & Mental‑Health Tie‑in 24:32 Zn‑Cu Ratio as Inflammation Marker 26:50 Elevated Uranium – Granite/Well‑Water Risk 30:58 Heavy Metals & Thyroid Disruption 33:20 Minerals vs. Vitamins – The Missing Focus 34:52 Soil Depletion, Biodynamics & Food Quality 40:46 Media Stress vs. Personal Control 41:25 Reading Core Ratios (Ca/P, Ca/K, Zn/Cu) 44:06 Ca‑Mg Balance & Blood‑Sugar Swings 46:14 Potassium Repletion & Muscle‑Cramp Fix 52:32 Muscle‑Testing Basics & Practitioner Bias 56:00 Iron Levels & Anemia Nuances 58:55 Zinc‑Selenium for Mineral‑Based Chelation 1:03:10 Hospital Electrolytes & “4‑Lows” Pattern 1:05:53 Oxalates, Soaking Grains & Cooking Greens 1:10:05 Ordering Your Own Hair Test Kit 1:12:07 Wrap‑Up & Final Thoughts Key Insights from the Podcast Minerals & Thyroid Function Potassium sensitizes the cell to T3 hormoneSelenium helps with the conversion of T4 (inactive form) to T3 (active form)Certain plants block mineral absorption (oxalates!) and depress thyroid function – soaking grains and cooking greens (like spinach, kale) are the solution. Minerals & Your Hormones Copper and estrogen follow each other in the body. If copper is up, then estrogen is up.Zinc represents testosterone and progesterone.The body stores minerals in tissues. If blood levels drop, the body can pull the needed minerals from tissue. We also discuss how minerals reflect or indicate our emotional state – yes, stress is shown in mineral levels and ratios! How a Hair Mineral Test Helps with Heavy Metal Detox Jill routinely uses mineral hair analysis tests to design safe, effective protocols to detox heavy metals like mercury, lead, and aluminum. The protocol usually starts by balancing your electrolyte minerals, then using targeted support (like zinc and selenium) to draw out the toxic metals. If you’re wondering whether your symptoms could be related to hidden toxicity, a hair analysis for mineral deficiency and metal load could give you the answers you need. Anemia – Tissue vs. Blood Levels of Iron We end the podcast with a discussion of iron and anemia. Jill points out that if your tissue levels of iron are good, then you need to get a blood panel done to check for iron binding capacity. If the HMAT show your tissue levels of iron are in the acceptable range, then taking more iron is not the solution. The Iron Binding Capacity Panel (blood test) should reveal an issue with how your body is utilizing iron to make hemoglobin, and if something is going wrong with that pathway. Or, you might be B12 deficient. You can also check this by looking at your Cobalt level on the HMAT. Remember to take B12 in liquid form (like MultiAbsorb) or sublingual. If you’d like to get your own HMAT, you can order the test and work directly with Jill via zoom. My Personal Experience After Doing the Hair Mineral Analysis Test I immediately implemented Jill’s suggestion of adding celtic sea salt to water, instead of just eating it. And WOW. At the first sip, my body said, “YES!!” Who knew salt in water (or herbal tea) could make ...
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  • Everything You Need to Know About Natural Gut Healing Protocols
    Oct 9 2024

    In this webinar hosted by Amrita Nutrition in the UK, Natasha Trenev (founder of Natren probiotics) and I present some insider details and tips on implementing Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol to eradicate gut infection. We also answer top questions from our readers regarding natural gut healing protocols.

    Practitioners Bring Their Tough Patient Questions

    Then we take a lot of questions from doctors, health coaches, naturopaths, dietitians etc. who have specific questions about my protocols, or tough patient cases they’re dealing with.

    This is definitely a good one, no matter where you are in your healing journey. And if you’re a health coach, or functional medicine practitioner, or naturopathic doctor, then you’ll certainly want to learn from your colleagues’ challenges and the solutions we suggest.

    *Scroll down if you prefer to LISTEN to this as a Podcast…

    Ultimate Gut Health – Top Questions About Gut Healing Protocols

    If you have any further questions, just leave them in the Comments section below!

    Amrita Nutrition hosts a webinar with Jini Patel Thompson and Natasha Trenev to discuss effective gut healing protocols for SIBO, IBS, Crohn’s, Colitis, Diverticulitis etc.

    9:00 – Natural gut healing protocols 12:22 – Probiotic Retention Enema 18:00 – Difficulty eradicating Candida 20:00 – Voids in the GI tract are not tolerated! 20:49 – Competitive bacteria 22:00 – 3 types of Natren probiotics & why refrigeration is crucial 23:00 – Stop treating symptoms! Work WITH the immune system 25:42 – Data on HT oil matrix 26:29 – What’s unique about powdered probiotics 28:40 – Protocol for IBS 29:56 – Skin is a reflection of the gut 31:00 – Q&A begins 1:00:00 – Natren bacteria communicate with immune cells by photon light emission 1:15:00 – Seed oils! Everyone on social media is saying NO seed oils. Jini and Natasha disagree. 1:19:00 – How to pre-load a dropper to dose the correct number of drops. 1:28:00 – Acne protocol 1:29:00 – Home Remedies section to empower people, plandemic, spike protein kills Bifido bacteria

    Other articles you might find helpful:
    • Healing Your Body By Listening To Your Gut: Fresh Leaf Forever Podcast Interviews Jini
    • Natural Remedies for Leaky Gut Syndrome
    • Help for Ongoing Gut Issues
    • Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema and Wild Oregano Oil Protocol
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  • Crohn’s, Colitis, Diverticulitis, IBS: What are Your Top Health Saboteurs? Find out…
    Sep 25 2024
    Chronic Illness and Health Saboteurs

    In this LTYG Podcast, I talk with Chiropractor and Functional Nutritionist Dr. Thomas Kutchenbrod about the common ways he sees his clients sabotage their own healing. We understand what are the top health saboteurs that are impacting your healing journey from chronic gut disorders.

    We discuss the most common patterns and behaviours we’ve observed and how to lean into this crucial piece of healing any autoimmune or chronic illness.

    Why are many (most?) people with Crohn’s or colitis considered overachievers, Type A personalities and people-pleasers who find it hard to say NO and set boundaries?

    What is the pathway out of victimhood (why me? poor me! someone else is to blame!) into self-responsibility and self-empowerment? Learn all this and more in this podcast discussion.

    Book a free discovery call with Dr. Kutchenbrod

    Crohn’s, Colitis, Diverticulitis, IBS: What are Your Top Health Saboteurs? Find out…

    You can watch the video, or listen to the podcast.

    Further Reading:
    1. Let Go Of The “I Am Sick” Identity
    2. Why Is My Gut Not Healing Faster?
    3. Using Emotions To Unlock Your Self-Healing Power
    4. The Paradox of Healing
    5. Healing the Roots & Layers in Chronic Illness

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  • Perspective Shifts Lead To Healing: Jini interviewed by Jenni B
    Sep 11 2024

    For those of you who enjoyed my podcast with functional medicine practitioner, Jenni Berman, you can get more of both of us in this episode where she interviews me!

    How Healing is a Shift in Perspective

    We get into a whole variety of topics, like family dynamics around illness, often unknown triggers for food allergy, why I went to Tokyo to begin my healing journey, what my most popular healing protocol is, how to empower yourself, and how illness can create PTSD trauma and which perspective shifts are crucial to be able to heal yourself of any chronic or serious illness.

    Here’s a quick list of topics discussed:

    (0:00) Intro (1:55) Jini’s Books (6:05) Jini’s Gut Health Journey (13:28) Social Dynamics Can Impact Health & the Healing Process (16:01) Healed vs. Cured (20:35) A Perspective Shift for Setbacks (24:39) Every Symptom is a Message (28:05) Wild Oregano Oil & Probiotics (38:39) Most Common Mistakes

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  • Healing Your Body By Listening To Your Gut: Fresh Leaf Forever Podcast Interviews Jini
    Feb 28 2024
    Healing your body by listening to your gut

    In this fascinating interview with Jini Patel Thompson, founder of Listen to Your Gut and author of multiple books, host Vai Kumar uncovers lots of impactful information about Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s, Colitis, Diverticulitis, and IBS).

    A very personal topic to both guest and host, this episode takes listeners through a multi-pronged approach to finding a balance and restoring the body’s equilibrium. Listening to one’s own body, intuition, tapping into our body’s defences and healing capabilities, are all great reminders from this chat.

    Subscribe to the LTYG Podcast on your favorite platform so you don’t miss an episode!

    Here are some Chapter highlights and notes from this conversation:
    • Ch 1: Jini’s journey, her non conventional approach – coming from a family of doctors, pharmacists, our guest shares her take on how she approached her healing journey.
    • Ch 2: Specific Carbohydrate Diet – what it offers and what Jini felt was a barrier with it personally.
    • Ch 3: Listen To Your Gut protocol, disease manifestation – how IBD shows up differently in people
    • Ch 4: Initial steps to address
    • Ch 5: Personality types, internal response – how our body triggers imbalances based on how we react to situations
    • Ch 6: Diet, allergy testing
    • Ch 7: Cellular regeneration – how healing happens in our body
    • Ch 8: Herxheimer reaction – rapid release of toxins
    • Ch 9: Methodical approach to healing
    • Ch 10: Wifi, environmental toxins
    • Ch 11: Adrenal systems, need for hormonal balance
    • Ch 12: Fecal transplant, surgical aspects in general
    • Ch 13: Children and IBD
    • Ch 14: Natural therapies
    • Ch 15: Microbiome testing, stool testing, food allergy testing
    • Ch 16:Absorb plus protein supplementation
    • Ch 17: Jini’s books, protocols
    Chapter Markers

    0:00 – Jini’s journey, her non conventional approach 10:00 – Specific Carbohydrate Diet 13:00 – Listen to your gut protocol, disease manifestation 16:11 – Initial steps to address 18:00 – Personality types, internal response 22:00 – Diet, allergy testing 28:00 – Cellular regeneration 33:00 – Herxheimer reaction 37:00 – Methodical approach to healing 53:00 – Wifi, environmental toxins 56:00 – Adrenal systems, hormonal balance 57:30 – Fecal transplant, surgical aspects 1:00:00 – Children and IBD 1:04:00 – Natural therapies 1:08:00 – Microbiome testing, stool testing, food allergy testing 1:11:00 – Absorb plus, protein supplementation 1:15:00 – Jini’s books, protocols, children’s series

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  • Scar Tissue Protocols, Jini’s Journey, Elemental Diets & the Subconscious
    Jan 3 2024

    In this podcast, health coach and yoga teacher Cate Stillman interviews me after she discovered my work during a search for help with scar tissue protocols and adhesions.

    So a lot of the podcast is us discussing my protocols for reducing or dissolving scar tissue, and why surgery is not usually the solution.

    But we also get into my personal journey, elemental diets, and how symptoms are actually messages from our subconscious, or higher self.

    To listen to this podcast, scroll down, or access on your favorite podcast platform.

    In this episode, Cate Stillman interviews Jini Patel Thompson’s healing journey, which began with Crohn’s, and colon issues. They explore the challenges she faced with conventional medicine and the turning point when she discovered the Elemental Diet, leading to profound transformation. Throughout the conversation, Jini emphasizes the significance of intuition, body wisdom, and the metaphysical aspects of healing.

    The Listen To Your Gut podcast is available on most platforms – SUBSCRIBE HERE

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  • Insights on IBD & IBS from a Functional Medicine Perspective
    Sep 13 2023

    Functional medicine practitioner Jenni Berman joins me for this podcast where we discuss:

    • Leaky gut and gut permeability
    • The gut lining/bacteria penetration
    • Antibody and cytokine reactions leading to autoimmune disease
    • Cortisol’s impact on the gut lining,
    • Food sensitivities vs allergies (IgG vs IgE)

    Jenni discusses the testing recommendations for individuals with autoimmune disease/IBD from a Functional Medicine standpoint. She tells us the recommended labs tests they look for, food sensitivity vs allergy testing, and blood serum vs skin testing.

    She also tells us her own health story along with a few interesting client improvements.

    Lastly, we discuss her long term treatment plan for IBD patients: the reintroduction of food, with a gut healing protocol. And Jenni outlines her preferred long-term supplements vs short-term gut healing supplements.

    There is SO much good information packed into this hour! Watch the video of our discussion, or if you prefer to listen to this as a podcast, scroll down, or access on your favorite podcast platform.

    The Listen To Your Gut podcast is available on most platforms – SUBSCRIBE HERE so you don’t miss an episode!

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  • The Gifts of Chronic Illness
    Aug 2 2023

    Ready to see RESULTS in your healing journey? Dane Johnson and I have a lively discussion on the deeper healing of Crohn’s, IBS, SIBO, diverticulitis, colitis – or ANY long-term chronic illness!

    Dane calls me the Top G of IBD, which leads us to a funny little detour into Andrew Tate.*

    Then we do a real deep-dive into the mental, emotional, and spiritual components of dis-ease, and how to go to the next level in your healing journey.

    You can either watch the video, or listen to this as an audio below, or on your favorite podcast platform.

    “When you’re dealing with a chronic illness, you are in the unique position of having the opportunity to transform and alchemize the experience into something much greater, with tremendous benefits to you.” – Jini Patel Thompson

    Dane himself was very resistant to go into this aspect of healing; he talks about where he came from and what it took for him to finally be willing to walk this path that is absolutely crucial for long-term, complete healing.

    I hope you enjoy this conversation on the gifts of chronic illness as much as we did! And please feel free to share your story and any milestones in your healing journey below…

    *p.s. When I say that I see the role Andrew Tate is playing for young men and how it has value, I’m referring to his more recent persona as someone who encourages hard work, discipline, business education, physical fitness, and taking care of the body. I’m certainly not referring to his early macho persona of using and manipulating women.

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