Barton Scott | Heavy Metals + Hair Mineral Analysis: The Simple Health Test That Reveals Your Hidden Deficiencies
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You have to have the minerals to have the hormones in adequate
supply, demand, and consistency. If you don't, then you'll
externally experience weight gain, hair loss, and other poor
results. Internally you'll have malaise, low energy, fatigue, brain
fog, and poor sleep rhythms. Really any physical symptom is going
to be in part dictated by this world of minerals because it's the
elemental world that we're built of as humans. This is why people
get sick early and this is why disease exists. Disease doesn't
exist when cells have the nutrients they need. - Barton
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Founder and Process Developer of Upgraded Formulas, Barton Scott, shares the benefits of hair analysis
compared to blood tests to reveal hidden deficiencies and heavy
metals in your body, how mineral depletion in our soils is hurting
our health, food versus supplements for maximum mineral levels,
what your mineral ratios including sodium to potassium reveal about
your health, and how minerals guide our emotions.
Which minerals does your unique body need the most to
help it function properly? How can they help you detox heavy metals?
Discover why you aren't just what you eat; you are what
your body absorbs including the minerals that are trace and
fundamental.
Upgraded Formulas was founded to optimize your health through
effective testing with follow-up supplementation and nutritional
planning. We strive to deliver the highest quality and assurance
standards with the most advanced processes available.
Upgraded Formulas' Promise
The ideal place to start healing and optimizing for your daily
well-being, physical and mental performance. We will help identify
any potential issues with mineral deficiency, heavy metal toxicity,
and metabolism function. This test is so valuable as a foundational
assessment of your baseline health, it is a no-brainer
investment.
You will begin to get more out of life if you take the correct
action based on your results. We have consultation options to give
you the guidance to confidently dial in your health. We guarantee
it.
Save Money On Supplements
Our hair test results will show you the vitamins and nutrients
you have in deficiency or excess. We've had many customers
purchasing hundreds of dollars of vitamins only to discover that
they weren't treating the root cause of their health issues. You'll
know exactly what you need to do to put your health back on
track.
Barton's own health journey and how it led to
his company, Upgraded Formulas.
Exploring the direct correlation between hair minerals and
minerals in the body.
That fact that many people are not able to absorb nutrients from food and
supplements thus suffering from deficiencies.
Breaking down the benefits of hair analysis to find out if you
have a nutrient deficiency and what else this
test can tell you about your health.
How Barton developed many different nutrient deficiencies from
being an athlete, having a go-go-go lifestyle growing up, and being
expected to be a top wrestler.
Barton's introduction to nutrition early on in life in order to
help him perform at his best in sports.
The regret Barton has for taking prescribed Vyvanse during
college which has a similar formula to Adderal which increased his
health issues.
Why many athletes especially wrestlers experience mineral deficiencies from their
energy-demanding sport.
How taking a hair analysis and having a great consultation
changed Barton's life.
Why hair analysis is just as important if not sometimes more
than bloodwork to understand what is
happening in your body as well as confirm correlations.
[19:30] How Mineral Depletion in Soil Hurts Human Health
The fact that 80-90% of trace minerals are no longer in our
soils.
Why we're so obsessed over our macronutrients but we should
focus more on the micros.
The importance of paying attention to and tweaking our
nutrition over time to match our body's needs and changes.
Why we should focus on supplying the body with minerals that
it's deficient in first before considering hormone replacement.
The moment Barton realized his mineral deficiencies (magnesium, chromium, potassium,
manganese, and more) were so bad especially when he compared them
to 80-year old males who had better test results than him.
Why salt is one of the most important nutrients we need every
day depending on your individual needs.
The hidden reason why we've been told salt is bad for us as
funded by sugar interests and faulty research: When we eat less
salt, we eat more sugar.
[25:30] How a Hair Analysis & Consultation Forever Changed
Barton's Health
Why doing the hair analysis test really helped move the needle
for Barton's health when other tests didn't help and he was already
very health focused.
The connection between sleep, remembering your dreams or not,
and your body's health.
One sign of whether or not you should work with an organization
like Upgraded Formulas.
Why you don't need melatonin, CBD, or marijuana to help
you fall asleep if you have a magnesium deficiency.
The important fact that your body needs to have a high-level
absorption ability to be able to reverse your mineral
deficiencies.
Why relying on our gut health sometimes just won't
cut it and we need to take a closer look at what the body is able
to absorb.
Barton's mother's health and how it went downhill quickly in
her 60s and she became a shell of herself due to medications and surgery.
What happens to the body when you have too much calcium
including stiffness and reduced thyroid function.
Why Upgraded Formulas is currently only focusing on mineral
deficiencies and not vitamins or anything else yet.
Barton's experience with fasting and how he used it to
help him heal his knee without pain.
[36:30] What Your Potassium-Sodium Ratio Tells You About Your
Health
How to understand, measure, and change your auric field.
Breaking down how nutrition can become our personality and why
this is toxic.
Taking a look at Josh's own Upgrade Formula testing
results.
Why you shouldn't focus solely on singular elements but the
ratios from your Upgraded Formula results.
What your potassium-sodium ratio can tell you about your health
and why it depends on a variety of different factors.
Fascinating health facts about the Zinc to Copper ratio.
[42:30] How Minerals Guide Our Emotions
Why he advises people to be careful about eating just red
meat and how it can impact their
emotions depending on what else is happening within the body.
The importance of being consistent with testing your levels as
you make healthy changes like doing the carnivore diet.
How to continually tweak your lifestyle to help get your body,
mind, and emotions stay in balance.
Why minerals can guide our emotions without us knowing it.
Learning more about zinc, why it's "masculine" and how it's a
more evolved form of iron.
Why copper is a very "feminine" and creative mineral.
How too much of either zinc or copper can have a bad impact on
the body for men and women.
Breaking down the relationships between minerals and hormones as a feedback
loop.
Barton's advice for Josh on how to improve his mineral levels
especially sodium to help build his emotional resilience.
Why just a teaspoon of salt in 30 oz in the water and drinking
a bit more later in the day plus increasing the amount of healthy
salt in food can make a big impact.
[49:45] The Secrets of Sugar
How food scientists amp up the amount of sugar as much as they can in
food to make us addicted to it.
The importance of increasing both sodium and potassium levels
at the same time.
Why you should try to consume as much potassium as you can every day and even consider
supplementing potassium to reach the levels your body needs.
[52:30] Food vs Supplements To Obtain Maximum Mineral
Levels
Why food sometimes just isn't enough to provide us with the
number of minerals we need every day.
How mineral depletion in the soil is
important to our children's IQ levels.
Why iodine is extremely important
for children's brain development and over 96% of 6,000 people in a
study were deficient in it.
Why the RDA for the USA is probably wrong.
How our health compares to that of other countries like Japan
whose citizens have extremely long life spans and they consume
about 100x more iodine than we do with sea vegetables in their
diet.
Why sea vegetables are not common in
the USA because they're difficult to import and they most likely
have heavy metals.
Mood swings, feeling lethargic, adrenal
fatigue, and other emotional disturbances people might experience
if their sodium and potassium levels are low.
The Hair Analysis Consultation Certification they have
available on their website and Barton's wish for functional medicine doctors, nutritionists, and
health coachs to do to the course so they can help more
people.
Barton's mission to help change healthcare as we know it with good hair
analysis and appropriate supplements to help more people heal and
feel better.
[1:00:30] Hair Analysis for Heavy Metal Testing
What makes doing a hair analysis so special and why is it the
best test to understand a person's mineral and heavy metal levels.
Why hair analysis is key for detecting heavy metals in the body
such as arsenic in Josh's case.
The fact that the body can store heavy metals for years and
years.
How the body detoxes heavy metals from itself like an onion as
you get healthier and healthier.
Where we find high levels of arsenic in our environment including in brown
rice.
Why you don't always have to ask your doctor if something is
good for you; you have the freedom to self-empower your own
health journey.
Breaking down why it's so much more practical, time-saving, and
cheaper to do a hair analysis for mineral and heavy metal testing
compared to blood testing.
General deficiencies we see in today's population and CDC's own
findings that on average 90% of people have 10 more deficiencies and why that's a
low, conservative statistic.
Why it's very common to be deficient in boron and why it's an
important mineral for our memory, testosterone, and brain health.
What the manganese mineral is and why it's key for our health
especially recovery after working out and building neural pathways.
[1:09:30] Why Heavy Metals Are a Huge Concern
Why heavy metals in our environment are a bigger concern than
pollution and plastics.
Breaking down the most toxic metals in our environment today
including lead and more concerning mercury.
Benefits of fasting for rebalancing hormones, fat loss, and clarity.
How many people realize during a fasting experience and
afterward that we self-soothe a lot of times with food.
Why you don't really have a shot at fixing your thyroid's
function until you give your body the minerals you need for your
adrenal and thyroid.
The benefits of spending time in sunlight every morning if you
can.
Power Quotes From The Show
The Growing Concern About Heavy Metals
"When we talk about a thousand years ago, even a few hundred
years ago, we had a lot fewer pollutants in the atmosphere and in
the air that we breathe. I know a lot of people point towards
plastics and those are certainly harmful; however, what's even more
of a concern are heavy metals because they stay in the body longer
and they're more toxic." - Barton Scott
Breaking Down Hair Analysis vs Blood Work
"When you look at even a half-inch of hair, it has a thousand
times more data than a day's worth of data with blood and it's an
overall better experience. A hair analysis test is so simple and if
we tried to do all of these different studies we would have to take
a lot of blood and some people aren't comfortable with that. Hair
analysis tests are measured twice in the labs we work with which
you get a much more clearer representation of what's actually
happening. Secondly, the cost is another advantage. It would be
expensive because you wouldn't have a ratio like with hair analysis
but try to do them all yourself. In addition, you wouldn't have the
ratios of minerals to heavy metals which is important because
certain minerals can push out heavy metals and that is the safest
way to detox." - Barton Scott
Minerals Are Daily Essential Nutrients
"Long before considering something like hormone replacements,
why don't we just supply the body with minerals? Your body cannot
make minerals. They have to come in daily because we're just not
holding onto chromium or magnesium. Minerals are essential
nutrients; so, even if you're fit, healthy, have a good community,
and live in a safe space - like I was, you could have severe
deficiencies that need to be addressed. Especially regarding
nutrition; no matter what diet you're following, you need to know
that it will change over time because your nutritional requirements
will change over time as you age and your lifestyle shifts."
- Barton Scott
Today’s guest, Barton Scott, is a biochemist,
nutritionist, researcher and the Founder and process developer of
Upgraded Formulas
Barton is passionate about helping people address the stressors
of daily life, poor sleep, hormone issues, low energy, the toxicity
of the modern world, the extreme lack of nutrients in our food and
soil, and the nutrient absorption issues that we all face through
education of the human body's interrelationships.
Upgraded Formulas' Mission
Upgraded Formulas is a quantified wellness and nanotech company
focused around performance and longevity--with a focus on
correcting mineral deficiency led by Barton Scott, who is a
Biochemist, a Nutritionist and Functional Health Expert based in
Austin, TX, recognized for developing a new category of mineral
supplementation called Stabilized Nano Minerals Minerals.
Why Upgraded Formulas? Their minerals are so small that they are
absorbed with ease by the blood cells in the body without having to
undergo the digestion process. Test your hair to understand which
minerals you need most.
About the Podcast
The Wellness + Wisdom Podcast is a global collective for humans to thrive in our modern world.
In this podcast together we gather, apply and embody the wisdom needed for authentic well-being in the 21st century.
Each episode is artfully crafted to go an inch wide and a mile deep into the "Pentagon of Wellness" - Physical, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual + Financial.
Your host, Josh Trent, asks the questions few have the courage to ask so you can garner the truth about how to live a life of confidence, freedom + optimal wellness.
Together, we'll walk the path of courage to cross the gap between knowing, and doing.
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