Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
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HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis) is an exciting and important medical screening test designed to provide a lot of information rapidly and inexpensively. Used correctly, as explained later, it is an extremely sophisticated method for removing all toxic metals, many thousands of toxic chemicals and hundreds of chronic infections from the body in a painless and inexpensive manner. From a technical view, hair testing is a biopsy type of test. A biopsy is an analysis of a body tissue. This one detects the levels of 20 or more minerals in the hair. Hair is a soft tissue of the body, so one can say that HMA is a soft tissue biopsy that uses hair as the sampling tissue. Hair is extremely useful for testing many things besides minerals. These include drugs, toxic chemicals and DNA. These, however, are not the focus of this article. At times I have heard people say that hair is not helpful for testing the body, when in fact the very opposite is the truth.
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