Dr. Paul C. Eck established Analytical Research Labs in 1974 after
devoting most of his adult life to evaluating major research studies
in biochemistry, physiology, pathology, nutrition and psychology.
To correctly interpret a hair tissue mineral analysis, Dr. Eck
combined a number of biological, physiological and biochemical
concepts including the stages of stress discovered by Dr. Hans Selye, sympathetic
and parasympathetic balancing as taught by Dr. Melvin Page, oxidation types as
taught by Dr. George Watson and mineral balancing as taught by Dr. William Albrecht
and others.
No other laboratory uses all these concepts to help understand the significance of tissue mineral levels, ratios and metabolic patterns.
Dr. Eck pioneered many innovations in the study of trace mineral deficiencies and excesses
and their relationship to various metabolic dysfunctions associated with disease.
Dr. Eck was regarded as an authority on the science of balancing body chemistry through hair tissue mineral analysis.
Under Dr. Eck's direction:
— ARL was the first laboratory to integrate the factors of stress, oxidation types,
mineral relationships, homeostatic states and natural healing principles into the
science of hair tissue mineral analysis interpretation.
— ARL was the first hair tissue mineral analysis laboratory to recognize the importance
of hair mineral ratios. As a result, their interpretations focus on mineral relationships
and their effects on health.— ARL was the first laboratory to determine
oxidation rates using hair tissue mineral analysis.
— ARL was the first laboratory to identify and correlate more than 30 metabolic trends
for illnesses using hair tissue mineral analysis.
— ARL was the first laboratory to produce interpretations that measure mineral levels
and ratios against an ideal standard of health rather than an average range used by
other laboratories within the field of hair tissue mineral analysis.
devoting most of his adult life to evaluating major research studies
in biochemistry, physiology, pathology, nutrition and psychology.
To correctly interpret a hair tissue mineral analysis, Dr. Eck
combined a number of biological, physiological and biochemical
concepts including the stages of stress discovered by Dr. Hans Selye, sympathetic
and parasympathetic balancing as taught by Dr. Melvin Page, oxidation types as
taught by Dr. George Watson and mineral balancing as taught by Dr. William Albrecht
and others.
No other laboratory uses all these concepts to help understand the significance of tissue mineral levels, ratios and metabolic patterns.
Dr. Eck pioneered many innovations in the study of trace mineral deficiencies and excesses
and their relationship to various metabolic dysfunctions associated with disease.
Dr. Eck was regarded as an authority on the science of balancing body chemistry through hair tissue mineral analysis.
Under Dr. Eck's direction:
— ARL was the first laboratory to integrate the factors of stress, oxidation types,
mineral relationships, homeostatic states and natural healing principles into the
science of hair tissue mineral analysis interpretation.
— ARL was the first hair tissue mineral analysis laboratory to recognize the importance
of hair mineral ratios. As a result, their interpretations focus on mineral relationships
and their effects on health.— ARL was the first laboratory to determine
oxidation rates using hair tissue mineral analysis.
— ARL was the first laboratory to identify and correlate more than 30 metabolic trends
for illnesses using hair tissue mineral analysis.
— ARL was the first laboratory to produce interpretations that measure mineral levels
and ratios against an ideal standard of health rather than an average range used by
other laboratories within the field of hair tissue mineral analysis.
ARL - An Authority on the Science of Balancing Body
Chemistry Through Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis!
Proudly Serving the Health Care Professional for over Three Decades!
Analytical Research Labs (ARL), is one of the most respected and experienced leaders in the hair tissue mineral analysis field. They have been setting the professional standards that have been emulated for over 30 years by national and international hair testing and interpretation laboratories. ARL, which pioneered the field of hair tissue mineral analysis interpretation, has earned the respect and endorsement of health care professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia.
Not and Ordinary Hair Analysis! ARL is State of the Art!!
Several factors combine to make ARL's hair tissue mineral analysis the best in the industry!
They are one of only two laboratories in the U.S. that do not wash the hair at the laboratory. Washing hair samples at the laboratory has been shown to erratically wash out the water-soluble elements. This creates much less accurate results. In a 2001 study in the Journal of the AMA (Seidel, S. et al., Assessment of Commercial Laboratories Performing Hair Mineral Analysis, JAMA, 285(1) Jan 3:67-72.) the two laboratories that did not wash the hair, of which they were one, showed superb reliability.
ARL only uses ideal mineral levels not standard levels used by other labs which are unacceptable for building an optimized health and nutrition program. They work with precise mineral levels and ratios rather than with the broad ranges employed by the majority of professionals engaged in hair analysis. As a result, they identify even slight deviations from 'ideal' values responsible for some disorders which would escape detection by other labs. Their tests recognize biochemical individuality through determination of three basic oxidation types, thus providing a sound basis for an accurate and specific selection of nutrients based on the individual's metabolism. Detrimental health effects arising from mismatching of nutrients with individual metabolism are therefore avoided.
ARL uses technologically advanced testing instruments, including the Perkin Elmer Elan 9000 ICP Mass Spectrometer.
ARL is proud of their laboratory quality control procedures. These include known controls which are tested at the beginning, middle and end of every batch of hair samples to insure the accuracy of the results. They automatically retest any reading that is out of a normally expected range, provided sufficient hair is available for a second sample.
Test results are printed on an easy-to-read graph, unlike many of the other laboratories. This is a great benefit for both practitioners and their clients as well.
The printed graph includes the mineral results, major mineral ratios and the oxidation type.
Analytical Research Labs offers the only complete individualized test interpretation by the method developed by the late Dr. Paul C. Eck, founder of ARL. This 15-20 page report is unique as it includes information related to your metabolic rate, energy levels, sugar and carbohydrate tolerance, immune system, autonomic balance, glandular activity and metabolic trends, a personal dietary supplement program, basic diet recommendations and other information that can be inferred from the test results.
Chemistry Through Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis!
Proudly Serving the Health Care Professional for over Three Decades!
Analytical Research Labs (ARL), is one of the most respected and experienced leaders in the hair tissue mineral analysis field. They have been setting the professional standards that have been emulated for over 30 years by national and international hair testing and interpretation laboratories. ARL, which pioneered the field of hair tissue mineral analysis interpretation, has earned the respect and endorsement of health care professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia.
Not and Ordinary Hair Analysis! ARL is State of the Art!!
Several factors combine to make ARL's hair tissue mineral analysis the best in the industry!
They are one of only two laboratories in the U.S. that do not wash the hair at the laboratory. Washing hair samples at the laboratory has been shown to erratically wash out the water-soluble elements. This creates much less accurate results. In a 2001 study in the Journal of the AMA (Seidel, S. et al., Assessment of Commercial Laboratories Performing Hair Mineral Analysis, JAMA, 285(1) Jan 3:67-72.) the two laboratories that did not wash the hair, of which they were one, showed superb reliability.
ARL only uses ideal mineral levels not standard levels used by other labs which are unacceptable for building an optimized health and nutrition program. They work with precise mineral levels and ratios rather than with the broad ranges employed by the majority of professionals engaged in hair analysis. As a result, they identify even slight deviations from 'ideal' values responsible for some disorders which would escape detection by other labs. Their tests recognize biochemical individuality through determination of three basic oxidation types, thus providing a sound basis for an accurate and specific selection of nutrients based on the individual's metabolism. Detrimental health effects arising from mismatching of nutrients with individual metabolism are therefore avoided.
ARL uses technologically advanced testing instruments, including the Perkin Elmer Elan 9000 ICP Mass Spectrometer.
ARL is proud of their laboratory quality control procedures. These include known controls which are tested at the beginning, middle and end of every batch of hair samples to insure the accuracy of the results. They automatically retest any reading that is out of a normally expected range, provided sufficient hair is available for a second sample.
Test results are printed on an easy-to-read graph, unlike many of the other laboratories. This is a great benefit for both practitioners and their clients as well.
The printed graph includes the mineral results, major mineral ratios and the oxidation type.
Analytical Research Labs offers the only complete individualized test interpretation by the method developed by the late Dr. Paul C. Eck, founder of ARL. This 15-20 page report is unique as it includes information related to your metabolic rate, energy levels, sugar and carbohydrate tolerance, immune system, autonomic balance, glandular activity and metabolic trends, a personal dietary supplement program, basic diet recommendations and other information that can be inferred from the test results.
DR. LAWRENCE WILSON, MD
For over 30 years Lawrence Wilson has specialized in mineral and nutritional balancing science,
a particular method of improving health that he originally learned from Dr. Paul C. Eck a brilliant biochemist and founder of Analytical Research Laboratories.
Dr. Wilson resides in Prescott, Arizona where for many years he has spent most of his time coaching patients as well as teaching physicians and nutrition consultants
about the finer points of mineral and nutritional balancing science.
FORMAL EDUCATION
1974-1979: Medical school at the Centro De Estudios Universitarios Xochicalco, AC in Mexico. M.D. degree awarded August, 1979 (awarded through the Universidad Del Estado De Guerrero, Mexico).
1968-1972: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B.S. degree awarded in June 1972.
OTHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
1982-1996: Study, internship and research with Dr. Paul C. Eck, mineral researcher and founder of Analytical Research Laboratories, Phoenix, Arizona.
1972: Grant awarded by the Departments of Nutrition and Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), for study of the relationship between urban diets and cancer incidence.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1982-present: Nutrition consultant/physician/researcher.
1997-present: Course author and instructor, University of Natural Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1990-present: Course author and instructor, Westbrook University, West Virginia, USA.
1982-present: Consultant for Analytical Research Laboratories, Phoenix, Arizona.
7/1980-1/1981: Medical writer and researcher, U.S. Public Health Service, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio.
RESEARCH PAPERS
1986, "Determination of Oxidation Types Based on Tissue Electrolyte Ratios". J Orthomol Med., Vol. 1, #2.
1980, "A Comparison of General Medical Screening and Screening in the Work Place". National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1980, "Common Denominators in Community Preceptorships: Implications for Primary Care, Family Medicine and Medical Education".
Co-authored with Dr. Rhoda Halperin and Susan Kyle, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
1979, "La Diarrea Aguda: Etiologias, Diagnostico, y la Experiencia Rural". Medical school thesis.
1972, "A Comparison of Two Global Planning Projects: The World Game and The Limits to Growth Project". Bachelor's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
COURSES AND PRESENTATIONS
1997-present: Jurisprudence, and Hair Mineral Analysis And Nutritional Balancing Science.
These are offered through the University of Natural Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Westbrook University in West Virginia and The Holistic Healers Academy.
1982-present: Numerous presentations to community and professional groups.
Topics include: How Nutrition Affects Emotions and Behavior, Toxic Metals, Nutrition and Energy, Biochemical Basis of Positive Thinking, Behavior and Learning Disorders, Sauna Therapy, Tissue Mineral Analysis, Nutritional Aspects of Arthritis, Allergies, Candida Albicans, Developmental Disorders and many others.
SEMINARS
2001: Four seminars on Nutritional Balancing Science in Mexico City, Cuernavaca and Toluca, Mexico.
1998: Seminar on Nutritional Balancing Science, Bologna, Italy.
1984-1995: presented bi-annual seminars with Dr. Paul C. Eck for the Eck Institute of Applied Nutrition and Bioenergetics, Ltd. Themes included Adrenal Exhaustion, Oxidation Rates, Cardiovascular Disease, Arthritis, Copper Toxicity Syndrome, Endocrine Dysfunctions and Hair Mineral Analysis, and more.
1992: Two Seminars on Hair Mineral Analysis and Nutritional Balancing Science, Milan and Rome, Italy.
1991: Seminar on Nutrition, Tall Timber Ranch, Grants Pass, Oregon.
1982: Principles of Traditional and Holistic Medicine, course given at Professional Studies Institute, Tempe, Arizona.
1981-1985: Beginning and Advanced Nutrition, 24-week course at Southwest University of Natural Therapeutics, Tempe, Arizona.
1980: Wellness and Wholistic Health Development. Course on various aspects of Wellness, involving community physicians, nutritionists, etc. Cincinnati, Ohio.
1975-1978: Lecture Series on Health. Ongoing series, three times per week, at the Villa Vegetariana Health Institute, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
ARTICLES
1983-present: Many articles published in various magazines, journals, and in the Arizona Network News. Many articles are available free to the public on this website.
BOOKS
Nutritional Balancing and Hair Mineral Analysis, (1991, 1998, 2005, 2010),
Healing Ourselves (60 articles about health and nutrition), (1995, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007).
Sauna Therapy, (2003, 2006, 2011).
Legal Guidelines for Unlicensed Practitioners, (1995, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011).
The Real Self (2003).
Toxic Metals in Human Health and Disease, co-authored with Dr. Paul C. Eck, The Eck Institute of Applied Nutrition and Bioenergetics, Ltd., 1989.
Book Chapter: "Nutrition and Mental Health", in the Maricopa County Mental Health Association, 1991.
Book Chapter: "Vitamin-Mineral Therapy", in the Holistic Help Handbook, 5th edition, by Stanley Kalson, The International Holistic Center, 1990.
Book Chapter: "The Case Against Medical Licensing", in The Dangers of Socialized Medicine, edited by Jacob Hornberger, Future of Freedom Foundation,1994.
Editor: Nutrition Chapter, Textbook on Health and Wellness, McGraw Hill, 1992.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Health Federation
Life Extension Foundation
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2008-present: President, The Center For Development. This is a non-profit foundation to help spread nutritional balancing science worldwide through this website and in other ways.
1981-present: Contributing author of the main article, The Arizona Networking News, This is a semi-Monthly health networking paper published in Phoenix, Arizona.
1998-2002: Volunteer physician and counselor - The Shanti Women’s Clinic, Prescott, Arizona.
1983-1994: Speaker, Arizona State Speakers Bureau.
1981-1982: Member, Board of Directors, Cooperative Credit Union, Tempe, Arizona.
1980-1981: Member, Task Force on Nutrition of the Ohio Regional Health Planning Association, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1980-1981: Member, Cincinnati Council to Promote Health and Well Being, Cincinnati, Ohio.
LANGUAGES English and Spanish
Fallon Decker
Certified health practitioner and nutrition consultant specializing in
mineral - nutritional balancing and detoxification as a protocol to restore good health.
Her certification is from Westbrook University, West Virginia.
She works as a practitioner and health coach for clients through out the U.S. as well as local clients in the Dallas and Fort Worth Metroplex.
She is an associate of Dr. Lawrence Wilson, MD "The Body Balanced - Health Program"
and works in conjunction with Analytical Research Laboratory in Phoenix, AZ a world leader in
hair mineral science since 1974.
Certified health practitioner and nutrition consultant specializing in
mineral - nutritional balancing and detoxification as a protocol to restore good health.
Her certification is from Westbrook University, West Virginia.
She works as a practitioner and health coach for clients through out the U.S. as well as local clients in the Dallas and Fort Worth Metroplex.
She is an associate of Dr. Lawrence Wilson, MD "The Body Balanced - Health Program"
and works in conjunction with Analytical Research Laboratory in Phoenix, AZ a world leader in
hair mineral science since 1974.