The Strands of Health: A Guide to Understanding Hair Mineral Analysis Paperback – February 3, 2003

I was so impressed I continued on to two more of Dr. Malter's books! Each one of us has our own way of expressing how and what we understand as the truths that we have come to realize in our lives. Dr. Rick Malter has a beautiful way of expressing HTMA, Psychology, The Judge and he leaves you, the reader far better the result of having been on a journey with him through the pages of his books!This is a great one!

I've experienced this type of testing and found it very worthwhile, but never had a book on it. The book complements my experience and explains more than I could know otherwise. I find it very useful.

Informative helpful reading. Puts my hair test analysis results into a bigger context and increased my understanding of what the test found and how to correct towards more optimal health.

Ok, so I have had 3 hair analysis in my past. Age 36, 41, and 51. They were prescribed by "new age alternative" practitioners who really knew nothing more than the process of cutting the hair, putting it in the envelope and sending it to the lab. The reports came back to repeatedly show me that I have a very "slow oxidation rate," meaning "really slow metabolism." At the end of the report is a list of supplements that the practitioner should sell to me. Having bought these and experienced not much help from the supplements, I wrote this entire thing (hair analysis) off. Well, had I read Dr. Malther's book about 15 years ago, I would have been paying much better attention (at the very least, if you are selling this hair test, you should read this book). Within the first 50 pages, I came to understand the major nutrients that my body had depleted due to emotional trauma as a youngster and exactly how this depletion set the stage for every health concern of my life. My worry is that this field of study will be lost in a melee of practitioners looking for additional income and not recognizing the value of the data.*** note, I am editing my original review here in April 2018 from 5 to 3 starts because I have since read "Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities" by Andrew Cutler****Hair analysis (called TMA Tissue Mineral Analysis) is a big, big deal. As a person who has studied health, diet, weight and psychology professionally and as my favorite hobby, I believe that TMA has most of the answers for health and vitality.While this book is good and convincing that this field of study is valuable and important, it pales in comparison to the plain spoken advice on metal toxicities that Andrew Cutler covers in Hair Test Interpretation.

If you a healthcare practitioner and run HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis test) this is must have book. Information in this book book will help to understand the epidemics and source of most physiological conditions. Dr. Rick Malter goes into details of understanding how to interpret Hair Mineral Tissue Analysis, which is one of the most essential tests available to develop healing strategies based on individualized mineral assessment.

Very interesting book. Had my HTMA analyzed by MD but this helped me understand more about it like how they made some of their reccomendations. It's pretty 'heavy' and I know it will be a book I will have to return to again

Awesome! If anyone wants a detailed understanding of the relationship between minerals and how they work together to keep us in peakperformance, this is a must have book.

Great concise information. Too bad more people aren't aware of how powerful mineral balancing can be to their health.