Hair analysis-

has many meanings including the alternative medicine analysis of hair for “toxins” and proteins, the use of hair analysis to determine food allergies, the forensic analysis of hair for arsenic or matching other hair or for DNA, the analysis of hair for illicit substances, and microscopic evaluation of hair structure to determine the causes of hair loss.   Most insurers consider most of these to be experimental and do not cover them.  Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NIAID) and the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology both recommend against the use of hair analysis in food allergy and diagnosis or rhinitis respectively.   The AMA has warned against the use of hair analysis to determine whether supplement levels are adequate as this remains completely speculative.  Since hair will contain different levels of minerals and trace elements varying with blood levels as hair grows, it is impossible to accurately determine the levels of minerals in the body because every millimeter of hair would have to be analyzed separately.    Falsely elevated cortisol level in the hair analysis when a person sweats that leads to elevations in cortisol levels that cannot be washed out. In 1985, 13 commercial labs independently tested the same hair sent to them and had wildly differing results.  The labs all had significantly differing "normal" values, and the mineral levels obtained were entirely inconsistent from one lab to the next. Six of the labs recommended food supplements but the types varied widely from one lab to the next. Many of the labs suggested "abnormal conditions" were present in the normal patients.

Painbytes analysis:  two thumbs down.  The results are speculative and may lead to harm if therapies are introduced using this data.