Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis Sydney: Nutritional Balance Program
Don’t play guessing games with your health!
Our HMA (Hair Mineral Analysis) test is a nutritional balancing program that works at a deep level to re-balance your health!
When it comes to your personal health there is nothing more important than knowing what your body really needs to have optimal health and that’s what our nutritional balancing program does. Modern lifestyle factors, including the consumption of chemical food additives, can contribute to nutritional imbalances and health issues.
Everyone is unique and so are their needs for nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, so it is important to understand that randomly taking supplements and relying on poorly nourished foods puts you at a big disadvantage when it comes to having optimal balanced health.
Important facts about NOT knowing your nutritional status
Not knowing your current nutritional status is a big problem facing most people today, here are just some of the problems:
- Nutritional problems lead to disease
- Nutritional problems lead to poor health both physically and mentally
- You take supplements without knowing if they will work for you
- You spend money on supplements you don’t need
- You take the wrong supplements that cause bigger health problems
- You can’t know how to prevent health problems and disease
- You lose time and money trying to solve health problems
- You have to take medications to deal with your health problems
- And many more
Our program is designed with just that in mind, knowing exactly what your body really needs to be healthy. Because you are unique we want to know the current state of your health, this is done by taking a hair sample right from the comfort of your own home and sending it to our laboratory where we analyze your hair for nutritional problems. Once this is done our professional, qualified nutritionists analyze the results and contact you via email with your results and the actions you need to take to re-balance your health. Hair testing allows for the detection of exposure to heavy metals and minerals, providing a comprehensive overview of your nutritional status.
What is Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)?
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a non-invasive pathology test that measures the levels and comparative ratios of nutrient and toxic minerals found in hair. This safe and scientific test provides valuable health information on the presence of both nutrient and toxic minerals in the body. HTMA is considered one of the most valuable screening tools available in everyday and preventative health care. Many doctors, naturopaths, and nutritional therapists regard HTMA as an essential tool for assessing current mineral status and recommending dietary changes and supplements for improved health and wellbeing. By analyzing hair tissue, HTMA offers a comprehensive overview of your body’s mineral balance, helping to identify potential deficiencies or toxicities that could impact your health.
Benefits and Importance of HTMA
HTMA offers numerous benefits and is essential for maintaining optimal health and wellbeing. It provides reliable data on over 35 nutrient and toxic minerals and 25 important mineral ratios, offering valuable health information not revealed in standard blood and urine tests. This detailed analysis can identify nutrient mineral imbalances or toxic mineral excesses that may be affecting your health. Personalized doctor interpretive test reports assess your current mineral status and recommend dietary changes and supplements for improved health and wellbeing. Additionally, HTMA is a useful tool for identifying exposure to heavy metals and minerals, particularly in cases where other testing methods are not available or are not reliable. By understanding your unique mineral profile, you can take proactive steps to address imbalances and enhance your overall health.
How HTMA Works
HTMA works by analyzing a hair sample, which is a body tissue made up of mostly dead, keratinized cells fused together. The shaft of the hair is the portion that projects from the skin’s surface, while the root of the hair, below the skin’s surface, contains living matrix cells from which the hair grows. Matrix cells depend on the blood supply for nourishment and growth, and as they grow and divide, minerals are keratinized into the growing hair shaft, creating a permanent record of metabolic activity and exposure to toxic elements. Research has shown that hair tissue is useful in indicating nutrient imbalances and exposure to toxic elements. By examining the mineral content of your hair, HTMA provides a snapshot of your body’s metabolic processes and exposure to various elements over time.
The Nutritional Balancing Program Process
It’s easy to take nutritional balancing tests online. The online test is perfect to save you time and money. Your results get sent straight to our professional qualified nutritionist who examines your results and provides professional advice on what actions you need to take to correct any problems found. The test plus professional advice via email is for only $299.00.
Step 1. Click the buy now button to purchase the test.
Step 3. You receive your results and our professional nutritionist’s recommendations via email.
It’s that simple! Get started now!
NOTE: You will not receive anything in the mail to complete this test, see the 3 steps above to complete the test.
Nutritional Balancing with Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
Hair tissue mineral analysis is an analytical test that measures the nutrient and toxic mineral content of hair. As the constituents of the hair are determined by the entry of substances from external sources and from substances that enter it from the bloodstream, hair makes an ideal medium for analysis. In cases where scalp hair is unavailable or potentially contaminated, pubic hair can be used as a viable alternative for accurate analysis. Levels of particular toxic and nutrient minerals can be used to diagnose behavioral disorders.
The mineral composition of hair reflects the mineral composition of the body’s tissues in that region during hair growth. If a mineral deficiency or excess exists in the hair, it can directly indicate a mineral deficiency, excess, or imbalance within surrounding tissues and the rest of the body. Essentially, human hair is a recording filament that can reflect metabolic status over medium to long periods of time. Therefore as a simple non-invasive diagnostic tool, hair analysis can provide an overview of post-nutritional and other metabolic events.
Since the structure of hair remains unchanged, the minerals are fixed in the hair, and levels in hair do not significantly change once that portion of hair has grown. The analysis accurately provides concentrations of minerals that have accumulated in the hair tissue over the hair growth period, approximately one to three months. Human head hair is a recording filament that can reflect metabolic changes.
Tissue mineral analysis is unique in that it inexpensively provides information directly about cellular activity, which is the main site of nutritional metabolism. As important as vitamins are, they can do nothing for the body without proper mineral intake. Vitamins cannot function and are unable to be assimilated without the aid of minerals.
Common Causes Of Nutritional Imbalance or Deficiencies
- Improper diet
- Genetic or gene mutations
- Excessive intake of refined carbohydrates or sugars
- Strict Vegetarian Diet
- Other exclusive diet/s
- Work Conditions (Working in or with toxic elements)
- Medication
- Stress
- Taking supplements, vitamins, and minerals not compatible with your body chemistry
- Occupation
- Poor food quality
Even if you are not experiencing a problem, abnormal changes in body chemistry and nutritional deficiencies/excesses may result in early, subtle changes in your body such as:
- Weight Gain (metabolism)
- Behavior Disorders
- White spots on fingernails
- Longitudinal ridging on nails
- Brittle fingernails, toenails, and hair (Calcium, Silica, and/or Copper imbalances)
- Stretch Marks
- Poor food taste
All of the above indicators and many more are generally signs of metabolic disturbances that can be detected in early to prevent disease.
What Do We Test For?
Our test looks at 15 essential nutrient elements, 5 non-essential elements, and 14 toxic elements. This gives us a great insight into what’s going on with your health and how to restore nutritional balance.
Nutritional Elements
Calcium
Magnesium
Sodium
Potassium
Copper
Zinc
Phosphorus
Iron
Manganese
Chromium
Selenium
Boron
Cobalt
Molybdenum
Sulphur
Toxic Minerals
Silver
Antimony
Barium
Uranium
Arsenic
Beryllium
Mercury
Nickel
Cadmium
Lead
Strontium
Thallium
Aluminum
Non-Essential Elements
Bismuth
Lithium
Vanadium
Example of an HMA test report (Hair Mineral Analysis)
Hair Analysis vs Blood Testing
HTMA is a more accurate and reliable test than blood testing for measuring mineral levels in the body. Blood tests only measure minerals being transported around the body, whereas HTMA measures minerals stored in tissues. The body removes lead from blood as a protective measure and deposits it into tissues like the liver, bones, teeth, and hair, making blood tests less reliable for detecting heavy metal toxicity. Elevated serum lead levels may be undetectable 30-40 days after acute lead poisoning, whereas HTMA can detect minerals stored in tissues, including heavy metals. This makes HTMA a superior method for identifying long-term exposure to toxic elements and understanding your body’s mineral storage and utilization.
