Back in March, I wrote to you about an 11-year-old girl who was losing her hair.
You might remember her. Her pediatrician and dermatologist suspected Short Anagen Syndrome. Her parents were watching real thinning and breakage with almost no regrowth, on top of daily meltdowns and skin that kept breaking out. Her CBC, thyroid, and iron panels all came back normal.
By every standard test, nothing was wrong.
Then we ran an HTMA, and the real story showed up. Copper running high. Zinc low against it. Potassium on the floor. A little aluminum, cadmium, and lead sitting underneath.
As I told you then, the problem was never really her hair. Her hair was just the way her body was showing us how depleted it was.
So we didn’t chase the hair. We rebuilt the fundamentals. Zinc and magnesium. Potassium-rich foods. Protein at every meal. Gentle detox support, and steady work on her nervous system. Nothing extreme.
I told you I’d keep you posted. She just retested, and I couldn’t wait to show you.
She’s 12 now. Six months of foundational work, and this is what moved:
- The zinc-to-copper relationship that had been so out of balance is back in range.
- Her copper came down.
- The calcium “shell” that had been locking up her system is resolving.
- Her body is showing better digestion and stronger detox capacity than it could handle the first time around.
She’s not finished. She’s in the tender rebuilding phase now, where kids need the most support, not the least, and there’s still ground to climb. But the direction is unmistakable.
Day to day, her family is seeing it too. The meltdowns have dropped off. Her hair is growing back, with stronger texture. The breakouts have faded to a little hairline acne. And she’s saying yes to new foods again.
When I asked her how she felt after all of it, she said, “I feel powerful.” 🥹
That’s the part no lab value will ever capture.
The problem was never her hair. It was her foundation. And a foundation can be rebuilt, at any age, when you know what you’re looking at.
That’s the whole point of the 7-step system I teach: to read a case like Anna’s, run the test, catch the patterns standard labs miss, and build a plan that is do-able, then watch the retest prove it. My students do this every week. If you’re not learning it with us yet, my free on-demand class on HTMA is the best place to start. Watch the free class here.
