Well if you are viewing this response, in a way, I (Josh) has done something meaningfully different that gravitated you here.You find me different because through my content, I provide a lot of insight on different health topics where in some cases, it hardly gets talked about.You find me different because at its core, I do not operate in a paradigm of quick fixes, scientific guesstimation & the over-fixation of root causes that is pervasive across the holistic health industry.You find me different because I take the time to truly understand your health concerns, committed to providing clear & detailed explanations for your health concerns (and any specific recommendations set), and to emphasize the importance of nutrition & self-care just as one of my clients Alexis alluded to. This is a result of implementing the C-A-R-D-D approach & the Pyramid of Building Foundations to Heal.If this is not satisfactory for you & your own unique needs, I guess I'm not a good fit for you & vice-versa. 🤷🤷

These are the top 4 ways to make this work:1. There must be a strong, innate desire & commitment to make your health a very high priority. This desire breeds self-discipline, resourcefulness and creativity. These combined traits breed strategy & action.2. Do as much of the program as you can. Always begin with the lowest hanging fruit. We will continue to update & add new ways to speed up your healing overtime. You may encounter roadblocks, such as your family & friends possibly being skeptical & unsupportive or financial constraints. Strive for excellence, not perfection.3. This program is NOT a do-it-yourself program. For best results and progress, you always need to reach out for any problems, issues and concerns that you have. This is basic accountability. It can get very tempting to want to act on something. Many times, some aspect of the program is ignored or something is added that damages your progress.4. Practice Forgiveness. On this program, some hidden anger, resentments, regrets may arise. You need to let these feelings and thoughts go in order to progress.

Our mission is to support one human at a time in healing themselves deeply according to the wisdom of the body & the uncomfortable truth is that we do not control how soon you’ll get well.Getting well occurs at its timeframe and at its opportune moment, not ours, nor yours. Making progress could be fast, within a few weeks or it could be slow, depending on your profile.We place special emphasis on controlling the controllables. There has to be a strong, innate desire & commitment to make your health a very high priority. Without this, your progress won’t be as fast nor powerful. Otherwise, the more you can adhere to the core things I recommend, the faster you’ll get well.

Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a soft tissue biopsy that provides an insight to the whole body response to stress which can in turn uncover patterns & trends that explain the constellation of health challenges you have.

Yes. It has the same or even better accuracy than blood tests (which have a +/- 3% margin of error) as long as you follow the instructions on how to obtain and submit a Hair Sample handout and as long as we continue to use Analytical Research Labs or other labs that do not wash the hair in their laboratory procedures.

Well your doctor did say that. Wonderful. If you don't mind me asking:Has your doctor ever studied Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis?Has your doctor even done up to 20 credit hours of basic nutrition in the years of their schooling?Has your doctor done up to even 5 credit hours in the study of toxicology in medical school?If the above are all true, why do you give their words such weight?Your doctor has NO legs to stand on.On a real note though:Did your doctor ever come across a 1979 review by the EPA of over 400 studies of Hair Analysis concluding that hair testing is "meaningful & representative for biological monitoring for the major toxic metals"?Did your doctor ever care to question the study by Ms Seidel et al that tried to discredit HTMA for its so-called variability when different labs use different hair sample preparation techniques and that the ones that showed consistency were the labs that did not wash the hair in the laboratory?Did your doctor ever care to question the Methods section in the 1985 hit piece by Stephen Barrett where he mixed hair samples of 2 different 17 year old girls & sent to each respective labs for mineral readings?I could go on & on.I know for a fact that your doctor hasn't done their due diligence.Once again, why give uneducated takes from the so-called "well-educated", "degreed" & "licensed" medical professionals any weight?Food for thought.

This "hair is a dead tissue" narrative is either disingenuous take or a malicious attempt to discredit Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis & at least 55 years of sound science.If hair is a "dead tissue", how does hair grow?If hair is a "dead tissue", why does hair tend to turn grey once you've reached a certain age?If hair is a "dead tissue", why do industries like forensic medicine & toxicology use it?If hair is is a "dead tissue", why do drug testing clinics use it?Forensic medicine & drug clinics must be so stupid to be testing "dead tissue" for criminal behavior & the presence of drugs in the hair.You could now see how the "hair is a dead tissue" narrative falls flat on its face with the cognitive dissonance. Hair is a metabolically active tissue. Don't fall for nicely curated narratives.

We define washing the hair with hair being prepared using harsh solvents like Triton-X, acetone & alcohol.Washing the hair skews mineral readings, particularly sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium (especially in women where the hair is more porous). These minerals are the most important data points for us to position you on the path to peak optimal health.A 1986 Study done by the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine on the effects of washing the hair and obtaining stable readings found that longer washing times produced more mineral loss, and more mineral losses occurred in females than males.

Excellent question. Proponents of this claim external contaminants do not provide a clean hair sample and thus do not provide accurate results so the hair needs to be washed to have a more ‘pure’ hair sample.However, the possible contaminants such as shampoo, conditioners, rinses, hair dyes, tints, light sweating and air pollution do not affect the hair readings as much. This is because these factors are usually not strong enough to penetrate the hair as deeply.One caveat about contaminants, if there are contaminants in the hair, it’ll usually show on a hair test. For instance, any shampoos or cosmetics that contain a lot of zinc (Head & Shoulders shampoo) or selenium (Selsun Blue shampoo) or even lead (Grecian Formula) will spike in a hair test or on retests once source of contaminant has been removed.We do recommend that as you are a client of the VitalUpgrade program that you follow instructions very carefully so we get a clean hair sample.

We Use Analytical Research Labs (ARL) to perform HTMAs.

How it works is that you make a transaction with Vitality Maximized, we send you a link of the instructions to mail a hair sample. Once you've mailed a hair sample and they receive it, we get in contact with the lab and with that transaction, we pay the lab fee to cover the costs.

Yeah absolutely BUT to develop a program, it would have to be dated within 5 weeks. Anything over 5 weeks, it'll have to be a New Client program. If that's fine by you, book a Discovery Call.

1. Simple & non-invasive. We do not have to pluck out portions of your organs nor draw out blood.
2. Stability. This means it remains viable for years
3. Easier to measure minerals. Mineral levels in the hair and tissues are 10 times greater than that of the blood which makes it easier to detect
4. Hair’s a rapidly growing tissue. This is to obtain a recent biochemical picture of soft tissue metabolism
5. A ‘non-essential’ and excretory tissue. This just means that if you have nutritional deficiencies, toxicities and biochemical imbalances, the hair is less important to the body to maintain & thus easier to detect imbalances.
6. Easier detection of toxic metals as it is easier to measure elements.
7. Longer term reading. Hair readings do not change much if you ate spoilt food or you had a workout or did a myriad of things for a day period. This is unlike blood, urine and feces where they change instantaneously.
8. Wider variation readings. As hair is a ‘non-essential’ and excretory tissue, the body has less need to maintain its homeostasis. Whereas the blood must maintain homeostasis, at the expense of everything else.
9. Cost-effectiveness. Advances in computer-controlled mass spectroscopy have rendered the hair mineral biopsy extremely cost-effective. Out of pocket expenses for blood tests average $432 (the more things you test, the higher it is), while lab expenses for HTMAs are only a fraction of that.

Vitality Maximized understands the “hit-and-miss” nature of this industry.We understand that you either did not get the support you felt you needed and/or you may have gotten worse (and even more confused).It is perfectly within your right to want to figure things out yourself on your own or be in a state of give-up, apathy & despair.However if you are willing to consider this perspective, have figuring things out yourself brought you closer to the peak optimal health you desire? Have apathy, despair, extreme skepticism of everything & everyone brought you closer to the peak optimal health you desire?If it did, you won't be here. You won't be interviewing different practitioners or doctors. You'd be doing whatever works for you keeping your health in peak optimal state. Or you won't do anything about your health concerns and kick the can down the road.The likelihood is that you're looking at this landing page AND shortlisting other suitors so you can be guided on your way from your misery with your health concerns.You're doing this because you are truly committed to your health & healing and you're not going to let bad or incompatible experiences dictate your future self is aspiring to be.That's why you need to invest in yourself & your health because you're not letting your past dictate your future state of health that you know is possible.The choice is ultimately yours.