FRUIT PATTERN ON A HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

(former name was Beam Me Up pattern)

by Dr. Lawrence Wilson

© April 2025, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.

All information in this article is solely the opinion of the author and for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Qualities

III. Physiology

IV. Symptoms

V. Correction

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I. INTRODUCTION

This pattern occurs in people who eat a lot of fruit each day. It is a newer pattern and was not part of Dr. Eck’s original work.

This pattern signifies a person who wants to escape from life on earth. Eating a lot of fruit makes one spacy and detached, in part because one becomes more yin and in part, the fruit sugars ferment and this produces some alcohol in the body. As a result, the person is slightly drunk and not as aware.

II. QUALITIES OF THIS PATTERN

The hair analysis criteria for the pattern are:

1. A fast oxidation rate.

2. The sodium/potassium ratio is usually mildly low, between about 1.5 and 2.5, though not necessarily.

3. A three high or a four highs pattern may be present, but not in all cases.

Stress theory.  From the perspective of the stress theory of disease, it is a type of secondary alarm stage or second wind type of stress pattern.

Movement. In terms of movement patterns, it is a desire to move out of life or away from this physical life. It is a mild form of step up or stepping out of life pattern.

III. PHYSIOLOGY OF THIS PATTERN

Eating a lot of fruit has the following effects upon the body:

1. Irritating. This is due to a combination of factors including its sugar content that upsets the blood sugar, the presence of fruit acids, and perhaps the presence of salicylates that are found in many fruits. For more on this, read Salicylate Poisoning on this site.

The mineral balance in the fruit, including toxic potassium, may also cause irritation.

Fruit-eating irritates the kidneys and the adrenals, or perhaps the entire sympathetic nervous system, and this may be the cause of the fast oxidation with a low sodium/potassium ratio.

The problems of fuit-eating are worse today than in the past. The sugar content is generally higher, it is often picked unripe, gassed with a chemical to color it and ripen it, and shipped hundreds or thousands of miles. Some is also dipped in chemicals to preserve it.

2. Yin, with yang rising.  These are terms from macrobiotics. Yin means expanded, cold, sugary, fragmented and today it means weak.

Yang rising is a secondary heating that occurs as a compensation, or perhaps as a reaction in some cases to some types of toxins in the body. This is an excellent description of this pattern.

3. Mild water retention. There can be some water retention with the pattern. This is often associated with fast oxidation and a high sodium level, because excess sodium can cause some water retention.

4. There is a quality of heat or inflammation in the body. This is indicated by a fast oxidation rate and a yang rising or toxic condition that some call toxic yang or toxic heat.

IV. SYMPTOMS

Few symptoms of fast oxidation.  The person with this pattern usually does not have a lot of fast oxidizer symptoms, except perhaps some irritation and heat in the body.

In this sense, it is definitely not a “true fast oxidizer” pattern. It is a toxic fast oxidation pattern caused by adrenal irritation.

Joint pain, heat or other irritation symptoms. These may occur with this pattern.

Psychological symptoms. The person can seem to be “flying high”, but not in a healthy way.  This may be an effect of the sugar in fruit, or some other constituent of fruits.  It is a type of ‘out of control’ pattern in this regard, also seen with some other causes of fast oxidation.

What fruits cause the pattern? It appears that any fruits or fruit juices can cause the pattern. For example, this includes eating a lot of avocado. Avocado is a tropical fruit, but not a particularly sweet fruit.

V. CORRECTION

This pattern is easy to correct. One must stop eating so much fruit. Eating a very small amount of fruit is probably acceptable. One needs to also avoid eating sugar in any form.

The pattern tends to correct easily and quickly, within a few days to a week, when one changes one's diet.

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