Before you go
Five days will show you your pattern. This shows you what's underneath it.
You'll know what your pattern is by Friday. Here's how to find out why it's there.
Before you close this tab, one honest thing about what you just bought.
A structured self-assessment is genuinely useful. It organises what you're already experiencing into something with a shape, and it shows you where a real investigation would be worth your money. That's more than most people get out of a fifteen-minute appointment.
It is also the ceiling of what any symptom questionnaire can do — including this one, and including every quiz online that promises to name your deficiency.
Three reasons it can't get you further.
Sodium against potassium describes how your stress response has been running. Calcium against magnesium describes whether your nervous system can come down. Zinc against copper touches immune function, hormone metabolism and mood. You can score every symptom perfectly and still not know a single one of those relationships, because a ratio is a measurement. It isn't something the body reports.
A mineral can be genuinely depleted, or present in quantity but locked in a form you can't use, or adequate but blocked by something competing with it. Those three states are indistinguishable from the inside and they call for opposite responses.
Lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminium and arsenic displace nutrient minerals by occupying the sites those minerals belong in. The symptoms come from the displaced mineral, so they read as ordinary deficiency. No checklist can separate a mineral you never had enough of from one something else has pushed out of position.
What the test adds
Hair tissue mineral analysis measures mineral content in hair, which is a storage and excretion tissue rather than a transport one. That's the whole reason it answers a different question than a blood panel.
- Tissue levels for the minerals in your guide, plus several others. Measured, not inferred.
- The ratios — sodium to potassium, calcium to magnesium, zinc to copper, calcium to phosphorus. The part no questionnaire can reach.
- Heavy metal burden — lead, mercury, cadmium, aluminium, arsenic. So a displaced mineral isn't mistaken for a depleted one.
- Metabolic and adrenal patterning, read from the relationships between minerals rather than any single value.
- A trend you can re-measure. Hair reflects months rather than a moment, so a repeat test tells you whether what you changed actually moved anything.
And the part that matters most: Jessica Olavarria, APRN reads your results against your intake history, your medications and the assessment you just bought. A raw lab report is a page of numbers that means very little on its own. The value is in the reading, not the printout.
What you pay today
You already paid the $27. It comes off. You're not paying twice for the same thing.
What happens after you click
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Your at-home collection kit is mailed to you with instructions.
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You cut the sample at home. Takes about five minutes, no clinic visit.
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A certified laboratory processes it for mineral levels, key ratios and heavy metal burden.
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Jessie reviews your results against your history and walks you through them in plain language — what's elevated, what's depleted, what the ratios indicate, and what it means for the symptoms that brought you here.
Bring your completed assessment to that review. Your section totals give her a symptom picture to read the lab against, which is a meaningfully better starting point than results alone.
One more thing, and it's the part most pages like this leave out.
If you work through your assessment and everything comes back low — no cluster, no clear shape, nothing above the watching band — then minerals are probably not your story, and Jessie would rather you didn't spend $172 finding that out.
That's a real result and a useful one. It means the answer is somewhere else. If that's where you land, a consultation is the better next step, and there's a link for it in your welcome email.
Three questions people ask here
Does this replace my bloodwork?
No. It's a complement. Blood tells you what's circulating right now under tight regulatory control. Tissue tells you what's actually been deposited over months. Neither is superior — they answer different questions, and the questions your assessment raises are tissue questions.
Is this a diagnosis?
No. HTMA doesn't diagnose disease and it isn't a substitute for standard medical evaluation. It fills in a picture blood is structurally unable to show you.
What if I want to think about it?
Take the guide and go. If you decide later, you'll have a code in your email that keeps the $27 credit live for 30 days.
Hair tissue mineral analysis is a laboratory assessment used in a functional medicine context. It is not a diagnostic test for any disease and does not replace conventional medical evaluation or standard laboratory testing ordered by your physician. Nothing here should be used to start, stop or adjust any supplement, medication or treatment.