Known as “Keyser’s Downtown Health Store,” the new Holistic Works Health Center offers customers everything from organic foods, all-natural supplements, and massages to nutrition counseling, earth-friendly cleaners to defiency testing.
Opened in February 2008, three businesses comprise the Holistic Works Health Center located at 11 N. Davis St. in Keyser at the former Holistic Body Works location.
First is Holistic Health, the healthfoods store ran by Samantha Evanevson, who has been in the natural health business for six years and will soon receive a bachelor’s degree in natural health from the Clayton College of Natural Health, which will enable her to perform personal consultations.
The store offers many of the same products as Holistic Body works such as organic foods and supplements, herbs, natural body care, oils, incense, wheat and gluten free foods, ear candles, and  the ion detox foot bath.
“The ion detox foot bath is the most visually and instantly gratifying means of detoxification in the whole world,” said Samantha’s mother, Linda Evenesen, owner of Truth in Health, also apart of the center.
If going green is a goal in your household, Holistic Health has several cleaners that is safe and environment-friendly.
Compared to local drugstores, Samantha said her products and supplements are all-natural and yield more benefits and results compared to over-the-counter medications and supplements which lose their effective ingredients by heat processing.
“Inexpensive supplements are almost always heat processed which destroys all the benefitical properties,” said Samantha. “When you get something from here,  you get good results with good quality.”
The third business within the center is Holistic Body Works, not to be confused with the former business owned by Lucia  .
Massage therapist Lindsey Lohr, LMT, NCTMB purchased the business off of earlier this year and offers 30 minute to one hour massages and facial massages.
“We also offer gift certificates and holiday discounts,” said Lohr, a massage therapist of three years who received her certification from the Pittsburgh School of Massage. “I’m hoping to become an esthetician, which is a person trained to administer facials and advise clients on makeup and skincare.
“I’ll be able to offer more facials and body wraps,” said Lohr, a Keyser resident and Meyersdale, Pa. native.
The last businesses at the Hollistic Works Health Center includes Linda Evensen’s Turth and Health natural health business which offers nutirional counseling, deficiency testing and many other services.
“I am very passionate about what I do for two reasons,” said Evensen. “My testing methods are non-invasive. I get information about people’s bodies  - what the problems are, what’s causing them and how to fix them. It’s no ‘one size fits all’ program. It’s dictated by the person’s body. To do that I use high-tech, cutting edge kinesology- muscle testing.
“The second reason is for nutritional response testing, which is the only mode of health that teaches people how to eat for their own body’s needs based on their own needs. My goal is to get people happy, healthy, and returned back to health and to give them all the tools to stay that way.”
Evensen gives consultations and then tailor’s a nutritional program to fit each of her client’s needs.
She currently has over a 100 clients she works with regularly, she said.
In a few months, Evensen will receive her doctorate of naturalopathy- which focuses on teaching people how to become healthy and maintain their health.
The Holistic Works Health Center is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. -6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Ion detox and massage services should be made by appointment by calling the store at (I304) 788-8051.
The Holistic Works Health Center will be setting up a booth full of natural health information and performing tests on local residents at the eighth annual Mineral County Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 7 starting at 9 a.m. at the courthouse lawn.