By Jack Raso Hair analysis is an ostensibly diagnostic procedure that is a major part of alternative medicine.
Hair analysis provides a profile that's as unique as a finger print. . . .
Hair analysis has been called unscientific, economically wasteful, a scam, and quackery. . . . Hair mineral analysis is a screening test, which measures the mineral content of your hair. Mineral content of the hair reflects the mineral content of the body's tissues. If a mineral deficiency or excess exists in the hair, it usually indicates a mineral deficiency or excess within the body as well. . . . Tissue mineral analysis is unique in that it inexpensively provides information directly about cellular activity . . . .