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The BarefootHealer's avatar

Look i know HTMA is the darling of the alternative medicine and functional med crowds, but it really isn't.

Read this book sure read it. Youll learn alot.

Then go read Gilbert Ling's work and many others, who show that the sodium potassium pump, the ATP synthase, and others cellular activities don't work, how the text books say they do. The math doesnt add up. It just doesnt and maths doesnt lie.😉 The only way the body is enabling the energy to activate these high intensity engines (lack of a better word) is through quantum tunnelling and light because its faster than chemical response.

HTMA is a tool, much like a lot of our diagnostics, its tracking the past, not the present, it tells you where that mineral has been not where it is now.

And at 3-400$ a pop, I don't know about you, but that's an expense that many cannot afford to many times a year, to track mineral levels that also have no resemblance to the metabolites that are actually being used (or not) by the body. Much like vitaminD panels are tracking the storage form and the "active" sulfated form, but tells us only that the body is moving it and storing it, not whether its using it.😉

Btjmo. HTMA away all day if that's your jam and it makes you happy 😉

Karen Brennan, PhD's avatar

Based on my professional understanding, HTMA provides a 3-month look back and the test is less than $150.

The BarefootHealer's avatar

Yep. Past. The cost will vary from provider to provider, from country to country. Those that are around your location may be able to afford $150, every 3mths to track their progress, and on top of adjusting their additional supplementary purchases. Supplements vary in cost, availability, quality (manufacturing & raw materials), efficacy, and results vary in the individual from purely an absorption perspective (IBS, GIT, Coeliac impacts for example)! Thats also not discussing any interactions or ADEs from meds or the supps themselves.

So IMHO that means the average person going down this path will have significant financial burden to explore the possibility that they are "imbalanced" minerally, while still not necessarily improving Sx or health status. 😐🤔😐

Like I said though, for those that like the HTMA, have at it. 😉

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Oct 22, 2025
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The BarefootHealer's avatar

In a nutshell, none of the "science" around vitamins and minerals (or drugs) has been done, controlling for light, water or electromagnetism.😐🤔🤨

We know that these 3 things significantly affect EVERYTHING that occurs within and around the human body because we have the evidence for this within agricultural industry, the telecommunications industry and medical devices, and quantum computing and biotechnology industries, which ALL use the science of light, water and magnetism to interact with biology. 😐🤔😐

So if people want to spend their time analysing past effects from minerals within their body (assuming the supps are quality, etc), every 3 months, to try and feel better, 😎 have at it.

If they want to take a more direct approach, then learn how the body uses light through the retina and skin to produce hormones, move substances and process nutrients, in conjunction with the microbiome, that ALSO uses light. Then learn how the body uses water to protect and energise cells, as well as communicating from one end of the body to the next in FTL speed. Then learn why the electrical charge in each cell is critical for health because the fields around us, and within each cell, open voltage gated channels, moving MINERALS in and out, and around the body. 😐😐🤨

Look I'd love to be able to give my patients, and or the world, a meme that shows exactly what you need to do for health, but I'm not a con artist. The nuanced details vary depending on the person and their life. Thats why we express disease so differently. But the 3 fundementals are the constant. 😉

The closest I can give you is this- see sunrise & sunset outside everyday. Be outside more than inside daily. Drink clean water (not chemically treated or fluoridated). Eat seafood daily. Turn off your WiFi at night, along with bright LEDs, and prioritise your community engagement and face to face contact.

Start there and you'll feel better in two weeks than you do today. Then repeat.

There are adjustments for each person, depending on their skin type and location but that's where each person needs to take control of their own health and learn. And at some point it may plateau. The body is not static, it is adaptive, but modern lifestyle has captured that adaptability and frozen it. To our detriment.

Rebecca Lee (maybeitsmercury)'s avatar

I think Andy Cutler took this work a step further when he figured out that chronic mercury (an undiagnosed epidemic) interferes with mineral transport across cell walls. He developed 5 statistical tests to apply to HTMA results to look for this situation that only mercury causes. That is how we evaluate whether a person has a mercury problem or not.

We will also look at the ratios of calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium to see stressed adrenals and/or thyroid.

We also are aware of adrenal crashes and see that all the time with toxic people, although we don't consider their oxidation status like Dr. Eck does. Just, if we see a totally unusual and out of whack pattern in the essential elements, then that person needs to detox mercury. When the mercury is cleared out, the body will hopefully balance itself. Adjusting a little of this, and adding a little of that are only things one does along the way to control symptoms while the main work of chelating out the mercury is going on.

Nina's avatar

This explains so much of the crazy out there!!

Simonde's avatar

All metals on the periodic table do not exist in nature, they are man-made, they are not minerals. Copper is manufactured by thermal, electrolytic and chemical processing of ores such as chalcopyrite, then compounded with red silica sand (gives copper its colour) and carbon. We tend to have the belief that humans need various metals because they are found in our blood and tissue. However, it's more likely the case that metals are so ubiquitous in our environment that all life is contaminated by them. Metals are not healthy or necessary 'minerals'.

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Simonde's avatar

Most gold is manufactured from ores/salts, but some gold is found in placer deposits. Placer deposits are likely the remnants of gold manufacturing from past civilisations. Iron is man-made, it cannot exist in nature as it would corrode away back to the salts it is made from.

ABIGAIL REPORTS's avatar

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Grateful Grannie Barbie's avatar

Is anyone doing this work today? This article blew me away.

Kees F de Jager's avatar

Incredible article, i learned so much, it amazes me that having studied horticulture and how mineral nutrients work in plants I never considered that that same could apply to our physiology, but of course it does.

I am now going to get my hair tested, thanks.

Selma Terzioglu's avatar

Fascinating work, which took me all the way to Walter Russel.

Jace Erased's avatar

Slogged through all that “Eureka” to lie starving at the end for any viable solution.

Karen Brennan, PhD's avatar

There were solutions within the article. You can use HTMA to evaluate your mineral levels, ratios. The test also tests for heavy metals. The article provided optimal ratios. Thus, after testing, imbalances can be addressed via diet and/or balanced mineral supplementation. Holistic/alternative nutrition professionals can interpret/address this.

KoalaPower's avatar

Does not mention that since the 1950s there has been an enourmous increase of the use of manmade chemicals that would also upset the mineral balance in our bodies. Toxic heavy metals are the cause of many disease. By the way, where can you get a hair anaylis from a trusted source in Australia or overseas if they do it postal? Thanks

King2Savannah's avatar

Fantastic article.

Very in depth and useful information.

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Gout during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: increased flares, urate levels and functional improvement.

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Grateful Grannie Barbie's avatar

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