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For chronic & complex health

When "they're fine" isn't.

If you've been investigated, told everything looks normal, and still feel like something is off — you're not alone, and probably not wrong. Blood and urine tests are brilliant for acute disease. They're far less useful for the slow, tissue-level patterns that drive years of low-grade unwellness.

"I'd genuinely given up. The protocol he wrote felt almost too simple. Six months later my sleep is unrecognisable." — Chronic health client, Australia
Sound familiar?

The pattern most chronic-health clients arrive with

Almost every client who lands here recognises themselves in some version of this. If two or three lines describe you, HTMA is probably worth investigating.

1
You've seen multiple GPs or specialists over months or years and most of your blood work has come back "in range".
2
You've been given a label that doesn't fully fit — "functional", "stress-related", "anxiety", "burnout", "autoimmune" — but treatment based on that label hasn't moved the needle.
3
Your symptoms cluster around energy, sleep, mood, digestion, hormones, or recovery — chronic, low-grade, persistent, frustrating to articulate.
4
You've tried supplements before but they didn't help much — possibly because you were taking the wrong form, the wrong amount, or addressing the wrong mineral.
5
You're not in a medical crisis — you're functional but operating below your real baseline — and you suspect this isn't just "getting older".
6
You want data, not platitudes. You'd rather see numbers, patterns, and ratios than be told to "manage stress" again.
Patterns we see most often

Three signatures that drive most chronic presentations

Across decades of practice, these three ratios show up disproportionately in chronic-unwellness presentations.

Ca : Mg
Stress overload signature

Elevated Ca:Mg is the most common pattern in chronic-stress, poor-sleep, and anxiety presentations. Tissue magnesium is one of the first casualties of sustained stress; restoring it changes a lot downstream.

Na : K
Adrenal-stress pattern

Inverted Na:K is sometimes seen alongside fatigue, low motivation, reduced resilience, and the "wired but tired" presentation. Slow to shift but often responds well to nutritional support over time. This is a pattern observation, not a diagnosis of adrenal disease — clinical concerns should be reviewed by your GP.

Zn : Cu
Hormone & mood pattern

Imbalances here (usually copper-dominant) are sometimes seen alongside hormonal imbalance signals, postnatal mood changes, skin/hair concerns, and recurrent low immunity. Supporting this ratio nutritionally tends to be one of the more reliable areas where HTMA-guided guidance shows trends over time.

Honest framing

What HTMA can and can't do for you

Spelling it out clearly — chronic-health clients are particularly vulnerable to overpromising. We won't.

HTMA does not diagnose disease. We won't tell you what's "wrong" with you. We measure and assess mineral patterns and write a protocol — that's our entire scope.

What HTMA can do

  • Assess tissue-level mineral patterns blood doesn't capture
  • Identify mineral ratios that often correlate with chronic symptoms
  • Design a targeted nutrition and supplemental protocol
  • Track whether a protocol is working over 4–6 months
  • Reveal long-term toxic metal burden
  • Give you data to take to your GP for further conversation

What HTMA cannot do

  • Diagnose any disease or condition
  • Replace your GP or specialist care
  • Justify changing prescribed medication without consulting your doctor
  • Promise that your symptoms will resolve
  • Substitute for blood, imaging, or other clinical investigations
  • Be claimable through health insurance, ACC, or any social service
Working with your GP

Complementary, not competitive

Important framing

If you currently see a GP — keep seeing your GP.

If you have prescribed medication, don't change it based on an HTMA report without consulting the prescribing doctor. If you're unwell and need a diagnosis, that's your GP's role — we support you continuing under their care.

HTMA fills a gap blood isn't designed to fill: long-window tissue mineral patterns. It doesn't replace blood. It doesn't diagnose. It's one input — sometimes a very revealing one — in the larger picture.

Most of our chronic-health clients run both — blood work through their GP for what blood's good at, HTMA with us for what hair's good at. Many bring our reports to GP appointments. We encourage it.

A composite case

What this looks like in practice

Composite · Postnatal depletion

Female, 36, 14 months post-second-child. Still in the fog after weaning. Iron and ferritin borderline-normal. GP sympathetic but had nothing further to offer.

HTMA showed magnesium, zinc, and selenium all low; copper elevated. Pattern consistent with what we routinely see post-second-child in breastfed-mother clients. The mineral cost of two pregnancies plus extended breastfeeding isn't trivial.

Six-month retest: all four minerals back into mid-range. Energy and mood substantially improved; fog largely lifted. Twelve-month retest confirmed sustained recovery.

— Composite case based on patterns seen in postnatal clients Composite illustration. HTMA does not diagnose postnatal depression or any other condition. Outcomes vary; your situation is unique. See Client Results for more cases.
Which test for chronic-health clients

Almost always: the Baseline + Progress bundle

Single tests rarely give chronic-health clients enough signal. The whole point is the comparison between baseline and progress.

Recommended

HTMA Baseline + Progress Analysis

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

Baseline + progress retest, full practitioner support across the protocol period. The right path for ~90% of chronic-health clients — the retest is what tells you whether you're actually moving.

Start with Baseline + Progress
Single test

HTMA Baseline Analysis

$495
One test · NZD incl. GST

If budget is the deciding factor, start here. Same full panel and Gary's interpretation — without a follow-up bundled in. Add a Progress Analysis later if you want to see what shifted.

View Baseline Analysis

Stop running into the same walls.

If years of "everything looks fine" hasn't moved you forward, it's reasonable to look at a different layer of data. Most chronic-health clients arrive frustrated; most leave with a clearer picture.

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