Hair & Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)

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Hair & Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a powerful functional assessment tool that provides deep insight into the body’s mineral status and long-term biochemical patterns. Unlike traditional lab work that often captures only a "snapshot" of what is happening in the blood at a single moment, HTMA offers a broader picture—reflecting mineral storage, heavy metal accumulation, and long-term metabolic balance. HTMA offers profound insight into the body’s biochemical terrain. It serves as both a profound assessment tool and a healing roadmap, helping to identify the root causes behind imbalances that influence physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, and even spiritual health. Nutrient elements, including magnesium, chromium, zinc, copper, and selenium, are obligatory cofactors for hundreds of important enzymes and are also essential for the normal functions of vitamins. The levels of these elements in hair are correlated with levels in organs and other tissues. Toxic elements may be 200 to 300 times more highly concentrated in hair than in blood or urine. Therefore, hair is the tissue of choice for the detection of recent exposure to elements such as arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, lead, antimony, and mercury. The CDC acknowledges the value of hair mercury levels as a maternal and infant marker for exposure to neurotoxic methylmercury. Through recent vast improvements in technology, instrumentation and application of scientific protocols, hair element analysis has become a valuable tool for providing dependable and useful data for practitioners and their patients. Client Instructions: Please read the test collection instructions carefully. DO NOT discontinue any medications or supplements unless instructed by your healthcare provider. DO NOT collect hair that has been treated in any of the following ways: Dyed Bleached Permed Otherwise chemically treated Collect only head or pubic hair. DO NOT mix head and pubic hair together. State Restrictions: Client can't order this test if they are located in Hawaii, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, or Puerto Rico