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When it comes to our hair, most of us worry about what it looks like, how short to cut it, how to style it and whether to colour it once it begins to turn grey.
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However, the health of our hair and scalp can be a major tip-off to a wide variety of health conditions - and you might be missing vital clues that your hair is revealing about your health.
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Research shows that changes in your hair's look, texture or thickness can be sighs of underlying health conditions.
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If you suffer from any of the following conditions, then a hair tissue mineral analysis may help you to pinpoint the reasons why, and more importantly what to do about it.
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allergies
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poor sleep patterns/ insomnia
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stress/ anxiety/ depression
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infertility
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PMS/ hormone imbalance/ mood swings
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migraines/ headaches
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fatigue/ lethargy
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high blood pressure/ high cholesterol/ diabetes
Hair Mineral Test
Why test for minerals?
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Minerals are essential inorganic compounds needed by the body for every function it carries out to keep you well. They are either macro minerals or trace minerals.
Ideally these should be obtained from the food you eat but poor diets and modern lifestyles mean that this is rare.
Testing helps to provide an accurate picture of health and is a valuable, non-invasive screening tool.
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What is hair tissue mineral analysis?
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Hair Tissue Mineral testing is a scientific laboratory test which measures the mineral composition of hair.
It is valuable to screen not only for potential future disease tendencies but it can also help correct everyday ailments and improve health and well being, if the recommended protocol is followed.
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Why hair tissue?
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Hair is a tissue in the body made up of mostly dead keratinised cells fused together. The shaft of the hair is formed from a cluster of matrix cells.
During growth phase, the metabolic activity exposes the hair to the internal environment. As the hair reaches the surface of the skin, its outer layers harden, locking in metabolic products accumulated during the period of hair formation.
Mineral concentrations in the hair can provide a reliable indicator of mineral stores throughout the body.
What can cause a mineral imbalance?
Diet
High fat, high sugar, excess salt, artificial food additives, processed foods, alcohol and caffeine can cause the body to be deficient in essential minerals both because these foods do not contain the necessary minerals but also their effect upon absorption of nutrients.
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Stress
Physical and emotional stress can both deplete the body of essential nutrients as it uses more when stressed but additionally can prevent the absorption of nutrients from food.
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Medication
Pharmaceutical drugs can cause mineral and vitamin deficiency either by blocking the metabolic pathways or because the body uses up extra nutrients (that it was likely deficient in, in the first place) to process these drugs.
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Pollution
In addition to vital minerals, the body can be exposed to toxic minerals. The world we live in today exposes us to a variety of external sources of toxic minerals from air pollution, exhaust fumes, cigarette smoke, unfiltered water, dental amalgams, aluminium cookware, bath and body products and household cleaning products to name a few...
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Supplements
Perhaps a surprising one but many people take a multi vitamin/ mineral without knowing whether they actually need the nutrients contained therein, therefore potentially taking something that is doing more harm than good. A hair mineral test clearly indicates which nutrients are lacking and which are present in excess.
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