Webinars & Interviews

Mineral Imbalances Driving Hormone Issues & Anxiety

Join Lisa Pitel-Killah as she explores the role of minerals in iron deficiency anemia with The Institute of Holistic Nutrition – IHN, with a focus on copper toxicity. In this webinar, Lisa highlights how toxic mineral levels affect energy production, stress resilience, and immune function, and provides key insights on iron deficiency markers through HTMA testing.

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How Minerals Shape Your Mood, Energy, and Hormones

Minerals play a crucial role in our overall health, influencing everything from energy and hormones to mood and emotional well-being. And the best way to truly understand your mineral status is through Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)—a powerful tool that uncovers imbalances blood tests often miss.

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How To Navigate Hormonal Changes With Mineral Harmony 

In this episode of Healthy Delicious Lifestyle, Lisa Pitel-Killah and host Claudine Francois dive deep into sleep challenges and how to support your body through life’s transitions. Don’t miss Lisa’s top tip for improving sleep and tools to help you navigate life’s changes with ease.

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Are Mineral Imbalances at the Root of Iron-Deficiency Anemia?

Join Lisa Pitel-Killah as she explores the role of minerals in iron deficiency anemia with The Institute of Holistic Nutrition – IHN, with a focus on copper toxicity. In this webinar, Lisa highlights how toxic mineral levels affect energy production, stress resilience, and immune function, and provides key insights on iron deficiency markers through HTMA testing.

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HTMA & ADHD with Dana Rosen

Did you know that your hair is a window into your body and into the inner workings of your biochemistry? It provides insight into key minerals that are missing in your body and also toxic elements like mercury, arsenic, lead, and cadmium. It can help you find unique imbalances that can be the underlying stressors of many major health issues, including ADHD. In this episode of the Soaring Child podcast, we are talking all about HTMA testing, which stands for hair tissue mineral analysis. My guest is a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, a board certified holistic health practitioner, an HTMA practitioner and educator, a multi-time kettlebell sport world champion, and a health, wellness, and fitness advocate.  Key Takeaways: [4:17] What is HTMA? [7:08] Minerals the HTMA test looks at [9:37] Patterns the HTMA test looks for [13:12] How does copper affect ADHD? [16:18] Potential sources of copper overload [19:22] The Mineral

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HTMA, Thyroid & Iodine

Lisa Pitel-Killah discusses the interrelationships of minerals, namely the significant ratios, one of which identifies the functionality of the thyroid. The thyroid is affected by the levels of minerals, specifically selenium, calcium, potassium and iodine. Iodine, whether in the form of seaweed or Lugol’s, needs to be understood in order to put it into clinical practice. Understand the effects of iodine, the measurement tools, the cautions and the conversions. Plus learn how to identify iodine insufficiency specifically by analyzing a client’s HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis) test.

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HTMA & Calcium Shell

Calcium Shell is a commonplace in our society today due to a higher exposure to copper for many women but also stress.  This can cause debilitating symptoms and conditions.

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HTMA & Copper Toxicity

Copper Toxicity (otherwise referred to as biounavailable copper) is becoming an epidemic in society today.  The use of birth control and IUDs are leaving women completely debilitated. 

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Custom Supplementation with Jeremy Malecha

Come join Biocanic’s HIX (Health Intelligence Exchange), where we highlight leading practitioners and technology in integrative approaches and how they solve the most challenging health issues. These live Q&A discussions are designed to deep dive into case studies and approaches to elevate the knowledge of both experienced and brand new practitioners. Join Lisa Pitel-Killah, founder of Vykon, HTMAP, FDN-P, BCHHP (AADP), specializes in Mineral Balancing using Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis and has a background in functional medicine. She educates individuals using HTMA testing to regain energy, erase debilitating symptoms and maximize the foundation of health.

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Mineral Balance with Brendan Vermeire

Reed Davis’s Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) program is known the world over by functional health coaches and is currently recommended by Sean Croxton, Underground Wellness, Paul Chek of the Chek Institute, William Wolcott of Healthexcel, BioHealth Laboratory, Oxford Biomedical Laboratory, National Association of Nutrition Professionals and thousands of health professionals and FDN course graduates.. With over 3,000 graduates of the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® program, Reed Davis’s course has become the standard in functional health coach training for licensed and non-licensed providers.Functional health coach: https://www.functionaldiagnosticnutrition.com/

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