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 […]

Your client is mid-sentence and you already know what you’d say if you weren’t so afraid of saying it. She’s describing the fatigue, the wired-but-tired nights, the labs her doctor ran that all came back “fine.” You can see the pattern forming. You have an actual thought about what’s going on with her. And instead […]

If you’ve ever pulled up a client’s HTMA and felt your stomach drop a little, this one’s for you. This month’s case is a mid-40s perimenopausal woman with a Slow 1 pattern, an extreme calcium shell, and nearly four highs. Calcium over 104. Magnesium over 9. Sodium and potassium both climbing. Skin issues, GI issues, […]

More testing doesn’t automatically mean better client outcomes. Most practitioners don’t have an information problem, they have a prioritization problem. This post explains why stacking labs (DUTCH, GI-MAP, mold, food sensitivity, blood work) often overwhelms clients instead of helping them, why the body doesn’t heal in separate categories, and why starting with a thorough intake […]

Summary: If you’ve ever had a client come to you with “normal” blood work but symptoms that still clearly suggest something deeper is going on, this  will help you understand why that happens so often. We break down what blood work is designed to show, where it can leave important gaps, and how HTMA can […]