BEDROCK
a foundational mineral, metal & vitamin panel designed to support female physiology
hair tissue mineral analysis + 62 serum biomarkers to map the mineral matrix
Introducing Bedrock,
…. a foundational six-month deep nourishment and vitalization container built around your unique physiology. While most mineral balancing programs simply measure minerals with Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), the Bedrock panel leans into the ecosystems effecting how the body uses its mineral building blocks, allowing us to craft a more comprehensive protocol for your terrain. We do this by synergizing the HTMA test with 62 biomarkers from a serum blood panel, which allows us to measure key vitamins and biochemical processes animating your body’s mineral matrix. You’ll be well held with three consultations and six months of texting support in our HIPPA compliant portal, combining psycho-spiritual health coaching with strategies for nervous system support. If at anytime you have a question, you can drop into our ongoing text thread on Practice Better.
Why tend terrain?
Much like a gardener cultivates healthy soil for a flourishing, resilient, ecosystems, tending our human terrain supports our feminine biology by giving our biochemistry what it needs to thrive. We see the expression in the ways we move, create and love. In its essence, a terrain building program is a deep dive into recovering from burnout, undernourishment, and environmental exposures. This approach to nourishing your terrain builds vitality and physical resiliency, allowing you to shed old patterns and step into more authentic versions of yourself.
Who does this program serve?
In alignment with terrain theory of disease, I believe building a robust terrain is in service to everyone. Our bodies nourishment and mineral balance informs its vitality and resiliency. A well nourished body responds to environmental stressors more robustly, and moves through initiatory passageways such as childbirth or perimenopause more gracefully. This deep nourishment program is especially in service to women with
a history of disordered eating, under- eating, fad or extreme dieting and orthoexia
a history of prolonged vegetarianism and veganism
those navigating complex or chronic illness
those navigating lifespan hormone transitions or imbalances
people who desire support detoxifying heavy metals in a safe way
What sets this program apart from other mineral balancing programs?
Over the course of my work with women, I came to realize that HTMA alone was too blunt an instrument to capture her mineral, metal, and vitamin terrain- her bedrock. I specifically realized HTMA alone was a dull instrument to assess both copper and iron- two of the arguably most important minerals for women. I began recommending additional serum testing to clients to better understand not only their HTMA tests, but their terrain. In doing so, I realized how potent a tool synergizing HTMA with serum labs can be. Where serum tests reflect one point of time with large references ranges, HTMA shines light on a 90 day cellular pattern, providing a good sense of the body’s resiliency, perception of stress, safety, and resourcing. Together, they’re a dream time, each providing clarification and corroboration for one another. The bloodwork shows me the things hair simply cannot: your true iron status, your copper ecology, your metabolic health and inflammatory load- all which are required to assess mineral status. Together, these tests tell a more complete story of your mineral, metal & vitamin terrain.
A well nourished body has robust energy and a clear frequency- it can do the job of managing your metabolism, your hormones, detox pathways, and even your psycho-spiritual health more optimally.
Minerals are the spark plugs of life- alivening our cellular voltage, powering our biochemical pathways, and shaping our molecules of emotion through their affect on hormones and neurotransmitters. Yet these essential elements are easily depleted by environmental burdens and stress, leaving us vulnerable to heavy metal accumulation in their absence.
When we grasp that minerals are the cornerstone of our vitality - and how deeply they're impacted by modern stressors and toxins - we begin to understand the root of our collective health crisis. While this connection may seem fundamental, our medical industrial complex's fixation on sick-care has blinded us to the interconnected web that sustains true health: the living relationship within our ecosystems. Mineral balancing with Hair & Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a truly holistic, psycho-cellular approach to healing the physical body, tonifying the nervous system, building energetic capacity and improving your psychological and spiritual health. Drawing on our knowledge of mineral and metal relationships, mineral balancing science is a holistic, targeted approach to balancing our inner ecology.
Support your terrain, support your divine design
The serum panel includes 62 biomarkers, at a wholesale price of $190 if ordered through Fullscript and drawn at Quest laboratory. Or have your primary care provider run the tests, and simply email me the results.
What serum markers do we assess?
Iron, Total
Ferritin
Total Iron Binding Capacity (TIBC)
Iron % Saturation
Copper, Plasma
Copper, RBC
Ceruloplasmin
Zinc, RBC
Vitamin A (Retinol)
hsCRP
Vitamin D, 25-OH, Total
25-OH Hydroxy Vitamin D (Cholecalciferol D3)
25-OH Hydroxy Vitamin D (Ergocalciferol D2)
Homocysteine
Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
Free T4 Index (T7)
T3, Uptake
T4 (Thyroxine), Total
Glucose, Fasting
Monocytes
Myelocytes (%)
Neutrophils
Nucleated RBC (%)
Promyelocytes (%)
Reactive Lymphocytes
Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW)
Neutrophils (%)
Monocytes (%)
Lymphocytes (%)
Eosinophils (%)
Basophils (%)
Platelet Count
Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration (MCHC)
Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin (MCH)
Mean Corpuscular Volume
Hematocrit
Hemoglobin (HGB)
Band Neutrophils
Blasts
Metamyelocytes
Mean Platelet Volume (MPV)
White Blood Cell Count (WBC)
Red Blood Cell Count (RBC)
The Foundational BEDROCK Package Includes:
Two hair tissue mineral analyses tests, one initial, one retest ($100)
A serum nutrient panel ordered through Fullscript, taken at a Quest lab near you ($138)
*Note, for those with insurance, it may be possible to run labs through your PCP instead of paying out of pocket.
Please schedule a 30 min call to discuss how to approach your provider.
A comprehensive onboarding process, building a mulitdimensional picture of your terrain through
a health history, diet and lifestyle assessment.
A full review of previous HTMA lab work, and any nutrition testing
1 90 minute initial results and coaching consultation
1 60 minute retest results and coaching consultation
A comprehensive diet, lifestyle, and supplement protocol PDFs with updates along the way
Six months of text messaging support through our hippa compliant portal Practice Better
25% off Fullscript dispensary
Thats three tests, two consultations and six months of ongoing support
$820
*payment plans available upon checkout. If you intend to complete blood work through your PCP, please select the “bring your own serum labs.” We can always add on blood work later, if necessary. If you are already on a mineral balancing journey and would just like the serum test, book under “bring your own HTMA" If you have questions about which package is best for you, book a 30 minute call.
How it works
If you have questions, book a resonance call. We decide together whether this is the right starting place, how to approach your PCP for serum tests, and any questions you might have.
Complete your testing and intake paperwork. You’ll receive onboarding paperwork, including a comprehensive diet, lifestyle and health history. You mail your HTMA test from home, and either go to Quest laboratories to complete your blood work or your primary care practitioner.
Receive an invite to book your first consultation when results are in. I’ll take a close look at your paperwork and tests, and reach out when it’s time to book.
We meet to develop your protocol together. You get your interpretation, your priorities, and a protocol you can actually follow that fits your budget and health goals.
Receive six months of support while rebuilding. We do a simple HTMA test after 90 days on your protocol, and on a case by case may do a follow-up blood panel at the end of six months if its available to you.
Why I added serum tests to complete my mineral balancing package
HTMA is a genuinely good instrument for what it does well. It shows relative patterns and ratios inside the cell over a three-month window. It's non-invasive, affordable, and it trends beautifully across months in a way a single morning blood draw never can. I use it in every program I run, and I'm not walking that back. But there are two minerals I've stopped trusting it to measure specifically, and they're two of the most consequential ones in women's health.
Iron. The clinically important question is never how much iron is floating around. It's how much you have in reserve, how much is in transit, and whether your body can move it where it's needed. That story is told by proteins: ferritin, transferrin, TIBC, transferrin saturation, and none of those live in a hair shaft. What ends up deposited in hair is a murky composite of what was circulating during growth, and it doesn't track with body iron stores in any way you could responsibly build a protocol from. This matters because iron deficiency and iron overload are both real conditions with opposite treatments, and because iron deficiency is one of the most common nutrient deficiencies in menstruating women. Getting it wrong in either direction has consequences. Iron deficiency anemia has several roots, serum testing allows us to find the right one. By looking at inflammatory markers and vitamins, we can better assess what iron is doing, and why. From my perspective, the founder of Mineral Nutrition Balancing Dr. Eck, assumes iron toxicity, does not assess for anemia, or include iron in any of his supplements. To me, this isn’t exactaly in alignment with the concept of “mineral balancing,” nor does it track well for women’s health.
Which brings us to Copper. While HTMA infers potential copper toxicity from triangulating different aspects and ratios, ultimately the number that matters isn't your total copper level, but how your copper is bound. Most of the copper in your blood is locked safely onto a molecule called ceruloplasmin doing its job. A smaller fraction rides loosely on other carriers, and that bioavailable pool is the one that drives oxidative damage when things tip. Two women can have identical total copper and completely different amounts of that loose, reactive copper. That distinction is the entire clinical question, and hair copper cannot make it — it can read low, normal, or high and tell you nothing about bioavailability or whether your ceruloplasmin is actually functioning. This is why we measure vitamin cofactors with a serum panel to assess copper status, overlaying clinical toggles that tend copper towards reactive: inflammation and oxidative stress, high estrogen and histamine. Through this integrative lens, we arrive at a much more granular perspective on what copper is actually doing.
How does HTMA work?
The HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis) is a valuable tool in support of healthy cellular energy levels, tending the internal terrain by promoting overall health and vitality in the body. This at home test utilizes a small hair sample to identify levels of minerals/metals, as well as important physiological ratios to guide personalized supplement recommendations tailored to your unique biochemistry. Unlike a blood test that captures a moment in time outside of the cell, hair analysis comprises a 3 month window of intra cellular data- allowing early detection of imbalances, and precise measures of overall health trends. HTMA science is a valuable tool in support of healthy cellular energy levels, tending the internal terrain by promoting overall health and vitality in the body through a systematized, bio-individualized approach to mineral balancing.
HTMA expands the traditional, reductive paradigm that measures and treats minerals in isolation, instead measuring important interrelated ratios and relationships to the whole. In this way, the HTMA captures the complex web of relationships characteristic of minerals- leading to a more effective approach.
For example, a low hair zinc level has a different meaning depending on the sodium/potassium ratio, and the treatment is different as well. Minerals act differently in different combinations with one another. Mineral balancing leverages these natural technologies, both the synergistic and antagonistic relationship minerals have with one another, to optimize your body’s vitality, stress resiliency and ability to heal through its ability to make energy and efficiently clear exhaust.
By analyzing a small sample of hair, HTMA offers insights into mineral ratios that reflect your liver, thyroid and adrenal health, heavy metal toxicity, how quickly you burn through nutrients, neuroendocrine function, and even emotional holding patterns.
Our inner ecology, environment, and experience of ourselves are interrelated dimensions. Tending our inner landscape promotes foundational healing, so we can step into our deepest, most authentic and vitalized embodiment. Tending our inner ecology is the future- writing technology we need in times of individual and collective change.
