WHAT IS HTMA?
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a non-invasive, easy-to-perform and affordable method to obtain an accurate report of tissue levels of 36 key minerals and heavy metals that affect your health. Prolonged exposure to toxic elements/minerals can progressively impair various bodily processes, leading to a variety of health conditions. By observing the composition of minerals and heavy metals that are excreted in the hair, we can infer about the minerals/heavy metals in other tissues of the body.
It is a window to the mineral activity of the cell. Hair is made up of dead cells and cells are the main site of metabolic activity in the body, so analyzing hair gives us a unique window into cells that we wouldn’t otherwise be able to see. An average of mineral activity over 3-4 months; similar to how the rings on a tree tell a story.
WHY MINERALS?
Minerals are the body’s “spark plugs.” Without adequate minerals, the body cannot function properly. Minerals, needed by millions of enzymes as cofactors, facilitators, inhibitors and as part of the enzymes themselves, help vitamins do their work. Minerals also control enzymes and hormones. If there is hormonal imbalance, there is mineral imbalance. Its availability and usability has a lot to do with the health of the human body.
HTMA GIVES INFORMATION ABOUT…
- Hormonal imbalance
- Metabolism
- thyroid function
- Adrenal health and stress
- Blood sugar balance
- Digestion
- Heavy metal toxicity
- Immune function
