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For athletes & high performers

Mineral data your bloods will never show you.

Athletes burn through minerals faster — sweat, training load, recovery demands, weight cuts. Blood panels are calibrated against the general population; HTMA is calibrated against you, season after season. The difference between tests is where the gold lies.

"I'd had every blood test under the sun and everything was 'fine'. The hair test was the first thing that actually showed me what was going on." — Endurance running client, NZ
Why athletes specifically

Four reasons HTMA matters more for trained populations

If you're training hard, your mineral economy operates closer to the edge than a sedentary person's. The same panel that says "fine" for them can hide a real problem in you.

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Mineral burn scales with training load

Magnesium, zinc, sodium, potassium — all consumed faster under sustained load. Reference ranges built on the general population systematically underweight what athletes need. A blood result in the lower 30% of "normal" is often a problem for a trained body, and no one flags it.

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Recovery is a mineral problem before it's anything else

Slow recovery, poor sleep, micro-injury frequency, immune fatigue — textbook Na:K and Ca:Mg signatures long before they show up in cortisol or HRV. HTMA surfaces them while they're still trend, not crisis.

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Weight cuts amplify everything

Aggressive cuts deplete tissue mineral stores in ways blood doesn't register for weeks. A pre/post-cut HTMA pair gives you the actual cost of the cut — and what to put back before the next block.

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Trend data beats single-point data

One HTMA is useful. Two HTMAs four months apart are revelatory. The HTMA Baseline + Progress Analysis bundle is built around that baseline-to-progress comparison — that's where the actionable signal lives.

The numbers that matter

Four ratios athletes should know

Absolute mineral levels matter less than how they sit relative to one another. These are the four most clinically useful ratios for trained populations.

Na : K
Vitality & adrenal capacity

The single most important athlete ratio. Na:K inversion is the hallmark of overtraining, adrenal fatigue, burnout-before-burnout. Slow to reverse but the highest-impact protocol we run.

Ca : Mg
Stress recovery & sleep onset

Tracks parasympathetic shifting after sessions. Elevated Ca:Mg correlates with "tired but wired", poor sleep, and post-training sugar cravings. Magnesium form matters more than dose.

Zn : Cu
Hormone & immune resilience

Heavy training often skews this copper-dominant. Shows up as recurrent illness in training blocks, mood dips, slower wound healing. Restoration is one of our more reliable wins.

Ca : P
Metabolic rate & energy

Reflects thyroid function and metabolic tempo (how fast your body produces and uses energy). Athletes who feel "flat" often sit at the slow end (high ratio); those who can't gain muscle or fuel correctly often sit at the fast end.

A composite case

What this looks like in practice

Composite · Endurance athlete

Six months out from a target ultra. Progressive loss of recovery between hard sessions. Bloods checked twice — iron, ferritin, B12 all "in range".

HTMA showed magnesium and zinc significantly low, Ca:Mg at 11:1 (typical 3–4:1), Na:K inverted — textbook adrenal exhaustion. Six-month follow-up: ratios back to mid-range, recovery restored. She finished her ultra.

— Composite illustration based on multiple endurance clients Composite case. HTMA does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. Outcomes vary. See Client Results for more cases.

Gary trains the way you train.

Four-time UCI Masters World Cup gold medallist in cycling. Forty years on bikes, a dozen-plus sub-3-hour marathons in his prime, still riding podium-level masters today. His sister: marathoner Lorraine Moller (1992 Olympic bronze).

Gary doesn't read your report as someone who's never trained hard. He reads it as someone who's spent decades pushing his own body — and knows what training-induced mineral burn feels like, because he's lived it.

That's not why HTMA works — the science works regardless. But it's why athlete clients consistently say his interpretation lands differently. The protocol respects the training calendar instead of fighting it.

4×
UCI Masters World Cup gold (cycling)
40+ yrs
Personal endurance training
Otago Sports Medicine
Background in NZ sports medicine
Lorraine Moller
Olympic marathon bronze (1992) — Gary's sister
50+ yrs
HTMA practice across athlete & general populations
Which test for athletes

HTMA Baseline + Progress Analysis is what most athletes want

Single tests have their place but for athletes the trend signal between baseline and progress is where the actionable information lives.

Single test

HTMA Baseline Analysis

$495
One test · NZD incl. GST

One snapshot. Useful pre-season, pre-event, or as a sanity check on a current protocol. No follow-up retest — book that separately if/when you want to see whether things moved.

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Recommended

HTMA Baseline + Progress Analysis

$895
Two tests · ~4 months apart · NZD incl. GST

Baseline + progress retest across the protocol period. Covers a full training block. The right path for athletes serious about their mineral economy.

Start with Baseline + Progress
Returning client

HTMA Progress Analysis

$445
For prior PHT clients · NZD incl. GST

If you've done a baseline with us within the last 12 months, this is your retest. Book 4–6 months after your previous sample.

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Stop training blind.

Most athletes start with the Baseline + Progress bundle because something's been off and they've run out of explanations from blood work. Two tests, the strongest signal we offer.

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