Hair Follicle Mineral Test
A non-invasive hair mineral analysis that helps assess time-averaged exposure to heavy metals and patterns in essential mineral balance.
Hair testing can show longer-term exposure patterns.
Blood and urine often reflect current or recent exposure, while hair may provide a broader view over weeks to months. This can be useful when reviewing heavy metals, mineral patterns, environmental exposures and nutrition-related questions.
Hair mineral analysis should be interpreted cautiously and clinically.
Hair testing is best used as part of a broader assessment with symptom history, exposure history, diet, supplements and, where needed, confirmatory blood or urine testing.
What the Hair Follicle Mineral Test can help clarify
Toxic metals
Screens for metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminium and related exposure markers.
Essential minerals
Assesses mineral patterns such as zinc, copper, selenium, magnesium, calcium and other nutritional signals.
Exposure context
Helpful for patients with possible industrial, occupational, household, dietary or environmental exposure concerns.
Who may consider this test?
Environmental exposure concerns
Patients living or working near industrial zones, heavy traffic, workshops, factories or polluted water/soil sources.
Unexplained symptoms
People with fatigue, headaches, hair loss, dermatitis, brain fog, tingling or reproductive concerns.
Families and children
Parents who want a non-invasive screen for children, including children with autism, as part of broader guidance.
How we use the result
The result helps guide exposure-reduction steps, mineral support, detoxification discussion and follow-up testing when clinically appropriate.
Hair testing alone should not be used to diagnose toxicity. Results should be reviewed with clinical history and confirmatory testing when needed.
Questions Patients Commonly Ask Before Testing
Is hair mineral testing painful?
No. It uses a small hair sample and is non-invasive.
Can it diagnose heavy metal poisoning?
It is a screening tool. Diagnosis may require clinical review and confirmatory blood or urine testing.
Can children do this test?
It may be useful for children when interpreted carefully with paediatric guidance and family exposure history.
Turn diagnostic data into a clearer treatment conversation.
Share your symptoms, history and diagnostic questions with our doctor-led team so the result can be reviewed in the context of regenerative medicine suitability, recovery goals and follow-up planning.
