--- title: "Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis | MineralShaman™" description: "A Trace Elements hair mineral test, 36 elements, with a sixty minute reading by Hamid Jabbar. No doctor needed, results in two to four weeks." url: https://www.mineralshaman.com/hair-tissue-mineral-analysis/ updated: 2026-10-30 language: en format: a Markdown copy of the page at the url above --- # The Mineral Record Your Blood Work Keeps Missing. Blood is regulated minute to minute. It will look normal long after things have stopped being normal. ![Two elderly women with long white hair, leaning in until their foreheads touch, both laughing.](https://www.mineralshaman.com/media/photographs/two-elders-with-white-hair-1280.jpg) Hair holds roughly three months of what your body has been doing with minerals. No doctor is needed. Trace Elements, Inc., licensed since 1984, measures 36 elements. ![A drawing of a yellow canary in a hanging cage, inside a dark blue ring of hair drawn like a nest.](https://www.mineralshaman.com/media/photographs/canary-in-a-ring-of-hair-800.jpg) ## Order One If Your blood work keeps coming back normal and you are tired anyway. Sleep, mood and digestion all slipped in the same year. A long stretch of stress has gone through you. You are going into plant medicine work, or coming back from it. [Order the test](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-order/) ## The Laboratory Trace Elements does not wash your hair sample before analysis. Washing strips loosely bound minerals and halves some readings. ![Page one of a Trace Elements Profile 1 hair test report, bar graphs of the nutritional and toxic elements, the patient's details covered.](https://www.mineralshaman.com/media/photographs/htma-report-page-one-1612.jpg) Page one of a Profile 1 report. Hamid's own hair test from 2024, each mineral against the ideal line. ## Ordering Same laboratory test in all four. What changes is who reads it. ### Profile 1 + 60 Minute Consultation Most chosen. Everything in the Profile 1 test, then sixty minutes on video with Hamid Jabbar. | The reading | Every mineral, ratio and toxic element, read through the Root Cause Protocol lens. | | --- | --- | | Plain language | Your questions are answered in plain language, and you leave understanding your own numbers. | The report and the hour together, $275. [Order the test](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-order/) ### Profile 1, Results Only Trace Elements Profile 1, 36 elements, as a two page bar graph report with levels and ratios. The collection kit and a prepaid return envelope come to you, or in the United States the laboratory's form by email if you prefer. Your data is yours to take anywhere. The report on its own, $125. [Order](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-order/) ### Profile 1 + Trace Elements Report Everything in the Profile 1 test, with a written interpretation generated by Trace Elements. A named metabolic type, and dietary and supplement recommendations. It is what a traditional nutritional mineral balancing practitioner would give you, and you can have it if you want it. The report and the laboratory's interpretation, $245. [Order](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-order/) ### Profile 1 + 60 Minute Consultation + Trace Elements Report Both readings: sixty minutes on video with Hamid Jabbar, and the written interpretation from Trace Elements. The report, the hour and the laboratory's interpretation, $395. [Order](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-order/) I diverge from their interpretation, and copper most of all: the report reads high hair copper as accumulation and reaches for zinc, and I read it as copper sitting idle, which asks for something else. US dollars, laboratory fee included. Retesting is the same. If you want to talk before choosing, the Clarity call is thirty minutes, $45, at [mineralshaman.com/book](https://www.mineralshaman.com/book/). ## After Your Reading A full [Mineral Balancing consultation](https://www.mineralshaman.com/mineral-balancing-rcp/): your hair, any [blood work](https://www.mineralshaman.com/lab-testing/) you have and your history, ending in recommendations. ## Before You Order **Do I need a doctor's order?** No. No prescription, no signature. **Where can my kit be sent?** Anywhere in the United States outside New York State, under Public Health Law Section 574. Or choose everything by email. Elsewhere, [Canada](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-test-canada/), [the Netherlands](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-test-netherlands/) and [India](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-test-india/) included, no kit is mailed, and you post your own sample to the laboratory. The laboratory takes no samples from the countries it serves through its own distributors, among them the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Mexico. The order form names every one. **What is the difference between the $275 and the $245 option?** Who does the reading. Hamid, live for an hour at $275. The laboratory in writing at $245. **Can I buy both?** Yes. Choose Profile 1 + 60 minute consultation + Trace Elements report when you order, $395. **Can I test if I color my hair?** Yes, in most cases. Henna and Grecian Formula contain metals and invalidate the test, and bleach distorts calcium. Use growth since your last treatment. **How much hair do I need?** A tablespoon from the back of the head, the first inch and a half. **What if I have very little hair, or none?** Body hair works, on its own reference ranges. Say so when ordering. **I am pregnant or nursing. Should I test?** Testing is useful here, since pregnancy and nursing draw down stored minerals. Afterwards the work supports the body and leaves metals alone until nursing ends. **How long until I get results?** Two to four weeks after the lab receives your sample, plus mailing. **Can I retest later?** Yes, three to six months on. Bring your previous lab number. **I already have results from another practitioner. Can you read them?** Often yes, when that laboratory follows the same protocols. Email (email address on the page). **When should I book my consultation?** Within a month of your results. Mineral patterns move. [Order the test](https://www.mineralshaman.com/htma-order/)