Focus - Hair Analysis Hair Analysis Hair analysis is touted by some alternate practitioners for determining nutritional status. The medical literature offers no support for this position. Some practitioners claim that trace mineral status can be assessed with hair samples. There are numerous fallacies behind this claim. Minerals are selectively stored in different tissues.
Blood is usually the preferred test sample because it transports nutrients to all parts of the body.
The mineral content also changes depending on distance from the roots of the hair. There is no justification for using hair analysis for any nutritional condition. Now when nutrition news gets confusing, there IS a place to go to get the real story. Our FREE daily email newsletter, Nutrition News Focus, helps you make sense of it all. It's written by Dr. David Klurfeld, Chairman and Professor of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University.