Why Minerals Matter: Benefits of Hair Tissue and Mineral Analysis (HTMA) for Optimal Health

Minerals are essential to our body’s cellular functions, energy production, and overall wellbeing. However, most people are unaware of their mineral deficiencies or toxicities, which hinder their ability to live their best life. This is where the Hair Tissue and Mineral Analysis (HTMA) test comes in.

What is a HTMA?

The HTMA test is a non-invasive, soft-tissue biopsy that provides a comprehensive overview of mineral and toxic element levels and distribution patterns over a 3-month window of time using ICP Mass Spectrometry. This provides insights into energy production, stress resilience, digestion, immune function, hormonal status, toxic burden, detoxification capacity, brain neuroplasticity, and more.

With the HTMA test as ONE tool, skilled practitioners can help others identify mineral and nutrient deficiencies and toxicities, allowing them to develop a core foundational approach to overcoming chronic dis-ease and post-traumatic syndromes. Most importantly minerals also provides a mirror of what’s going on in our subconscious mental and emotional body, making it an excellent basis for discussion on this aspect of healing, which is crucial when it comes to chronic issues.

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Biochemical-only approaches are outdated and don’t work for most people. The HTMA test provides highly-actionable insights into the true reasons for our challenges but providing insight into both mind and body so that more clarity and direction can be gained on what actions one can take to help health. It allows individuals to become their own best self-healers and optimize their lives.

Furthermore, the HTMA test is inexpensive, easy to implement, and non-invasive. It only requires snippets of hair and is much more affordable than most out-of-pocket expenses for functional lab testing. Plus, it doesn’t require submitting stool, urine, or blood samples.

Balancing minerals is a long game. It is not done in one session with a few single recommendations or supplements.

What HTMA Can Reveal about the Body and Mind

Physiologically speaking, it can reveal what’s happening at the cellular level in terms of:

• Energy production
• Stress resilience
• Digestion
• Hormone balance
• Neurotransmitter balance
• Immune function
• Toxic burden
• Detoxification capacity
• And more!

And psychologically speaking, here are ten thought-provoking things that can be revealed through single mineral values, significant ratios, and remarkable patterns:

• Swallowing one’s pain and in survival mode for too long
• A tendency to be rigid and pessimistic
• Armoring against life for too long, stored trauma, withdrawn
• Holding onto the past, fear of moving forward
• Over functioning and feeling undervalued for too long
• Outwardly confident yet inwardly insecure
• Feeling defeated, wanting to give up
• Wanting to escape, run away; no will to live
• A fighting spirit, determined to overcome life’s obstacles
• Chronic frustration, resentment, and hostility

This isn’t an inclusive list; it’s just some examples.

Nonetheless, the HTMA results provide tangible data points that can be used as a springboard to help clients begin or deepen their process of facing and healing the metaphysical drivers of their chronic struggles.

This is an essential component of the healing journey, as I’ve learned that…

Chronic conditions, regardless of the label, be it Lyme, mold illness, autoimmunity, CFS, Fibro, mast cell disorders, parasites, etc., will maintain their stronghold until one comes face to face with and heals the emotional wounds and subconscious programs that made them a vulnerable host and are keeping them in place.

This revelation was a pivotal turning point for me in my journey.

HTMA is Still Not a Quick Fix (None Exist)

Achieving mineral balance is not a simple feat; it requires more than just taking the right minerals or following a prescribed protocol. Nobody can provide all the answers or do the work for us. We must embark on a journey to HEAL OURSELVES, which demands a shift in perspective, attitude, thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and daily habits. This is precisely why I embrace HTMA in my comprehensive programs with clients and can’t provide single sessions to review one lab test. One needs to embrace a holistic and personal understanding of the body-mind system and learn to support underlying physical, emotional, and psychological patterns contributing to chronic health issues. When used to its fullest potential, HTMA can serve as a powerful coaching tool, empowering individuals to become their own best self-healers with time, patience, consistency, and willingness.

In conclusion, the importance of minerals and the HTMA test cannot be understated. With its highly-actionable insights, this test enables us to identify core stressors inhibiting our ability to live our lives to the fullest potential and become our own best self-healer. You ready to take your power back?

How to Get Support?

Want to learn how to interpret the hair tissue mineral analysis test (HTMA).

Holistic HTMA Pro is a 12-week certification program that provides comprehensive and truly holistic training on interpreting and implementing the HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis) through the lens of the impact of trauma, psychoneuroimmunology, which is the interplay between the psyche and the nervous and immune systems, epigenetics, whole-person/whole-system healing, and quantum coaching.

The program provides a wealth of knowledge, tools, and strategies for guiding clients to become empowered self-healers and create sustainable wellness in body, mind, and spirit.

Learn more about Holistic HTMA Pro HERE.

Want to work with me 1 on 1? Learn more about my approach with clients: My Health and Healing Philosophy

I believe ANY HEALING JOURNEY ultimately needs to involve addressing BOTH the body and the mind in the proper way and in the proper order, which will be highly individual.  

It also is a HUGE reason why I see many feel stuck on their own healing journeys because this concept hasn’t been adequately acknowledged, understood or addressed.