One of the tools I always recommend for migraine sufferers is Hair Mineral Analysis.

Your hair contains all the minerals present in the body. Which means that it is an invaluable source of information on your health. Your hair reflects the quantity of nutrient and toxic elements in your tissues. Analysis of this information provides a wealth of knowledge on how efficiently your body is working, its nutritional status, and certain harmful substances that could be at the root of migraine attacks, or other ill-health.

The video below tells you more about Hair Mineral Analysis in general.

Specific reasons why HMA can be helpful to migraine sufferers are:

• Links between migraine and magnesium (the focus of my dissertation)
• Magnesium deficiency can cause sugar cravings
• Magnesium deficiency can be due to relative imbalance with calcium excess
• Chromium deficiency can also be linked to cravings that cause poor appetite choices leading to hormonal swings
• Toxic metals such as lead, aluminium, mercury and cadmium may cause headache/migraine
• In one case-study a client had excess iron, and correcting this imbalance cleared his migraines

The point of having a hair analysis is to check that ALL nutrients are in balance so that your body can function optimally. These may involve supplementing deficient nutrients, or designing a program that will correct toxic mineral excesses. Your hair analysis report will recommend the correct nutrients tailored to YOUR requirements.

It is my opinion that using a supplement program designed without an objective test such as Hair Mineral Analysis is just educated guesswork, and could even be doing more harm than good by exacerbating pre-existing imbalances.

Hair Mineral Analysis is a safe, non-invasive, pain-free test that anyone can perform themselves, in the comfort of their own home, unlike blood tests which must be administered by professionals. Where-ever you are in the world, if you can post a hair sample to me, I can arrange your test. Sterling payment preferred, but US dollar cheques and PayPal also accepted.

Learn more about Hair Mineral Analysis here, and click to download a free sample analysis.