Hair Mineral Analysis
What is Hair Mineral Analysis?
Providing a mineral blueprint of one’s biochemistry, a hair tissue mineral analysis can provide pertinent information about your metabolic rate, energy levels, sugar and carbohydrate tolerance, stage of stress, immune system and glandular activity. A hair tissue mineral analysis performed by Analytical Research Labs, Inc., is a screening test for the level of 20 minerals and toxic metals in a sample of hair. It is a tissue mineral biopsy that is non-invasive, relatively inexpensive and extremely accurate. Our laboratory uses only the most advanced and sophisticated instrumentation available today, the Perkin Elmer Elan 9000 ICP Mass Spectrometer to assess mineral levels in parts per million or parts per billion.
A hair tissue mineral analysis is considered a standard test used around the world for the biological monitoring of trace elements and toxic metals in humans and animals species. The same technology is used for soil testing and testing of rock samples to detect mineral levels.
Hair, like all other body tissues, contains minerals that are deposited as the hair grows. Although the hair is dead, the minerals remain as the hair continues to grow out. A sample of hair cut close to the scalp provides information about the mineral activity in the hair that took place over the past three to four months, depending on the rate of hair growth.
What can you learn from my hair?
By looking at specific ratios of minerals, we can determine how efficiently your metabolism is working, and to what degree heavy metals may be impacting your health. Specifically, hair mineral tests from ARL look at five key mineral ratios that serve as indications for:
- Blood sugar handling
- Thyroid function
- Adrenal function
- Overall vitality
- Sex hormones
- Metabolism
For more information on whether a Hair Mineral Analysis is right for you, please contact us.