Mark Twain, adapted for the 21st century
Blood can't give a representative picture of predominantly intracellular minerals. 98 per cent of potassium and 99 per cent of magnesium is inside the cells; only a tiny amount is in the blood. In contrast, hair testing is a soft tissue biopsy, giving you a window into mineral levels and ratios inside the cells (cells make up tissues). Biochemistry happens in the tissues, not in the blood.
Blood is the most critically buffered system of the human body, and is maintained at the expense of the tissues. The body will shuttle nutrients and toxins in or out of the tissues to maintain the blood pH and other features in a tight range. This compensation is to ensure that your vital organs, such as the heart, are supplied a chemically stable blood. Large fluctuations could be fatal! If your diet is lacking in calcium or you have problems absorbing it, your body will borrow calcium from the bones to maintain a normal level in the blood. This invisible deficiency can continue for years, till you get a fracture or get diagnosed with osteoporosis! Unlike blood, which is a transport medium, hair and other tissues are like storage reservoirs of minerals. Deficiencies will show up earlier in the hair than they would in the blood, making hair tests more preventive than blood tests.
Blood tests don’t tell us about the balance or ratios of minerals, which is necessary to identify qualitative deficiencies. For example, it’s possible to have ‘normal’ levels of zinc in the blood and still have symptoms of zinc deficiency if there’s excess copper or cadmium (both zinc antagonists) in the tissues. Only a hair test can bring to light both absolute and relative deficiencies.
Blood won't give you an idea of the efficiency of your cellular metabolism. But a hair test can tell you your metabolic rate with mathematical precision, on the basis of certain mineral ratios.
Blood test results are usually evaluated against statistical norms based on general population, but we benchmark your hair mineral levels against those of healthy elite-level athletes. While most doctors or even nutritionists see health as just an absence of disease, we define health as an abundance of vitality.
Minerals are the sparkplugs of life. They are essential components of enzymes or cofactors for enzymatic reactions. Enzymatic systems virtually regulate all bodily functions, from digestion to water balance.
Minerals are also the building blocks of the body. Most health issues are connected to mineral deficiencies or mineral imbalances at the cellular level.
As the late two-time Nobel winner Linus Pauling said, “You can trace every ailment, every sickness, and every disease to a mineral deficiency…”
In short: Optimising your minerals is the single most important factor in improving your health, and you can't improve what you don't measure.
"Minerals are the principal energy-producing components of the human body. It is the relationships between the minerals in your tissues that help determine your physical and emotional destiny. Through an understanding and control of these basic laws of human energy, you can vastly increase the intensity and quality of your life.” – The late Dr Paul Eck, pioneer of HTMA science
"The balances between these essential nutrient minerals are more easily disrupted in the cells and tissues than they are in the blood. Deficiencies and excesses of minerals are more readily observed in an HTMA than in a blood analysis or urinalysis. Therefore, an HTMA is often an earlier indicator of a trend towards health problems (physical and psychological) than is a blood analysis or urinalysis. This fact is very important, especially when considering disease prevention or health maintenance nutritional supplement program." – Dr Rick Malter, HTMA practitioner and psychologist
“Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis is the window into our physiology, our psychology and our pathology.” – Dr Robert Selig, functional medicine and HTMA practitioner
“Mineral deficiencies are responsible for a host of health problems, which are incorrectly treated by drugs…Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) may be the most important health test that exists. Only when you and your doctor know for sure your mineral status and important ratios can you adapt your diet, minerals and supplements to work toward proper balance." - Dr Robert Thompson, MD and author of The Calcium Lie
"A HTMA is a tissue sample and as such reflects the biochemistry of the tissues. Don't expect to get the same information from a blood test. A blood test is like stopping a courier in the street and having a look in his van. That single observation tells one very little about the warehouses he's collected from and the businesses he's about to deliver to. The biochemistry occurs in the tissues, not the blood stream." - Dr Igor Tabrizian, Integrative Medicine practitioner
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