What is a hair mineral analysis test?
A hair mineral analysis test — HTMA — measures the minerals and metals your body deposited in hair over roughly three months. Where a blood test shows this moment, hair shows the trend.
What the test actually measures
A small strand sample, cut close to the scalp, is washed and analysed in a lab for around twenty minerals and trace elements plus the main toxic metals: calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, zinc, copper, iron, selenium, chromium, and lead, mercury, cadmium, aluminium and arsenic. The absolute values matter less than the ratios between them — calcium to magnesium, sodium to potassium, zinc to copper. Those ratios describe how your nervous system, thyroid, adrenals and blood sugar are actually behaving.
Why hair and not only blood
Blood is kept within a narrow range at almost any cost — your body will pull minerals from tissue and bone to keep blood looking normal. That is why blood work can come back 'fine' while you feel exhausted. Hair is a storage tissue: it records what was available over weeks, including the metals your body could not excrete. The two tests answer different questions; together they are far more honest than either alone.
What a pattern can reveal
A slow oxidiser pattern — high calcium, low sodium and potassium — often sits behind fatigue, low mood and a thyroid that looks borderline on paper. A fast oxidiser pattern leans the other way: wired, anxious, burning through minerals. Elevated mercury or aluminium explains symptoms that never matched a diagnosis. None of this is a disease label; it is a map of where your system is spending more than it earns.
What we do with it
In the Reset, your HTMA is read by a human practitioner alongside your blood work, wearables and history. You get three concrete actions a week — food, supplementation, rhythm — aimed at the pattern, not at a generic protocol. Six weeks later we retest where it matters and the numbers tell us what changed.