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HTMA for children’s health
Rather than viewing childhood health in isolated parts, we believe it should be understood as an interconnected system.
Children are growing within an ecosystem.
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Every stage of development places new demands on the body, increasing the need for the minerals that support growth, energy, learning, immunity, and resilience.
At the same time, nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, and the environments they live in all influence how those nutrients are used.
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Rather than viewing childhood health in isolated parts, we believe it should be understood as an interconnected system.
When we support the foundations of that ecosystem, we create the conditions for children to grow, develop, and thrive.
Our changing bodies
Developmental
Children develop in relationship with the world around them.
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Nutrition, sleep, movement, emotional safety, play, nature, attachment, and the environments they grow within all shape neurological, emotional, and physical development in profound ways.
Childhood is not something to rush through or optimise, but a foundational period where the nervous system, sense of self, resilience, and lifelong health are quietly being formed.
Pre-puberty
The years before puberty are a deeply sensitive stage of development, where the body, brain, hormones, and nervous system are laying important foundations for adolescence and adulthood.
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Nutrition, sleep, emotional wellbeing, environmental exposures, movement, and mineral balance can all influence how smoothly a child moves through this transition.
Supporting children gently during this stage is less about control, and more about creating the conditions for healthy development to unfold naturally and steadily over time.
Environmental awareness
Modern life exposes all of us to more than we realise.
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Heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and aluminium can enter the body through food, air, or water.
Because these can cross the placenta during pregnancy and may also pass through breast milk, parents and parents-to-be often look for simple ways to reduce everyday exposure at home, and some choose an HTMA hair test to see the levels of minerals and metals a laboratory measures in a hair sample.
Symptoms
Children communicate in many ways, and sometimes their bodies speak as clearly as their words.
Changes in behaviour, sleep, digestion, skin, energy, or emotions are often invitations to look more closely at the wider picture.
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Rather than viewing symptoms in isolation, we believe in understanding the whole child by recognising the important role that nutrition, environment, development, relationships and daily rhythms all play in helping children flourish.
Sleep
Sleep is one of the foundations of health and development.
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Understanding the rhythms that support restorative rest can help children feel calmer, more balanced, and better able to meet the demands of everyday life.
Persistent tiredness, poor sleep, and fluctuating energy can be influenced by many things, including the nervous system, hormones, nourishment, stress response and the body’s overall capacity for rest and repair.
If they persist, it is worth speaking to your GP.
Energy and fatigue
A child’s energy levels can offer valuable insight into their overall health, reflecting the combined influence of nutrition, sleep, movement, mineral balance, emotional wellbeing, and the demands of modern childhood.
Behaviour
Behaviour is often a form of communication long before it is a choice.
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A child’s emotional responses, focus, frustration and energy levels can all be influenced by nervous system regulation, sleep, nourishment, sensory load, mineral balance, environment, and the feeling of safety within the body.
Looking beyond behaviour itself allows us to better understand what a child may be experiencing beneath the surface, with greater compassion, curiosity and awareness.
For children
HTMA hair test for children
A hair sample collection kit for children. The laboratory’s report of mineral and metal levels is passed to you unaltered.
For guidance on food and daily routines at home, a consultation can be booked separately, and is never needed to receive the report.
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If you or your child has a complex health history, significant ongoing symptoms or you feel you may need more individual support than a standalone test and report can provide, please contact us before ordering.
We can help you decide whether the test is suitable on its own or whether working with a practitioner may be more appropriate.
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Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis for Children (HTMA)
£90.00
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Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) – GRAPH ONLY
£75.00
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