HTMA Testing for Sapphire Women’s Healthcare Clients
A collaborative service with Nourish Women’s Health to uncover the root causes behind fatigue, hormonal changes, and stress resilience.
Welcome! You’ve been referred here through Sapphire Women’s Healthcare to complete your Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) testing with Nourish Women’s Health, led by Kristin Gauthier MSN, RN.
This partnership allows you to go deeper into understanding your body’s mineral balance and how it affects energy, hormones, mood, and metabolism and also optimizing your health and maximizing your results — while staying connected with your trusted provider at Sapphire Women’s Healthcare.
The NOURISH Method™ is our signature framework to help women in midlife feel strong, vibrant, and supported. It’s not about quick fixes, it’s about creating sustainable shifts that support your whole being.
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a non-invasive functional test that measures the levels of minerals and trace elements in your hair. This powerful diagnostic tool provides insight into your body’s biochemistry, revealing imbalances and deficiencies that may be contributing to your health issues.
SUPPORT FOR HORMONE THERAPY AND METABOLIC Programs with GLP-1
Starting hormone therapy or metabolic support with a GLP-1 is a big step, and your body deserves support that keeps pace with it. Nourish Women’s Health, led by Kristin Gauthier, RN, MSN, CHt, offers an integrative support package designed to work alongside your care team, not in place of it.
It starts with HTMA, a simple at-home functional test that gives a clear picture of your mineral patterns, nutrients, and metabolism. That insight guides personalized support for blood sugar balance, thyroid health, and your body’s stress response, helping you feel your best while on your medication and optimizing your overall health.
Your 3 months of Nourish Collective Membership access begins the moment you sign up and includes guided hypnosis audios, habit rewiring, and relaxation audio to help you sleep better and release cravings, food noise, and old patterns you’re ready to leave behind. Sapphire Women’s Healthcare is offering this as an optional add-on to their hormone and metabolic health packages.
If you’d like your results and plan shared with your provider at Sapphire Women’s Healthcare, simply sign the optional Consent to Share Results form during your intake.
This allows for a fully integrated approach to your care — combining the insights of functional testing with your ongoing support at Sapphire.
We accept FSA/HSA!
The NOURISH Method
A personalized, root-cause approach to midlife health designed to help you finally feel like yourself again.
Who It’s For
The NOURISH Method is for women in midlife who are:
• Ready to optimize their health
• Ready to stop guessing and finally understand what their body needs
• Looking for an integrative approach grounded in real data and compassionate support
Step 1: Test, Don’t Guess
We begin with an HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis) testing package. This powerful tool reveals what your body has been trying to tell you—mineral imbalances, stress patterns, and where support is truly needed. No more guessing or generic protocols.
Step 2: Dig Deep While We Wait
While we wait for your results, you’ll complete a detailed intake so I can understand your symptoms, history, stress load, and lifestyle. We begin laying the foundation with nourishment, mindset support, and simple shifts that meet you where you are.
Step 3: Your Personalized Integrated Health Plan
When your HTMA results arrive, I personally curate your health plan based on your unique mineral patterns and health history. Your plan includes:
• Nutrition strategies aligned with your body's needs
• Targeted and minimal supplementation if needed
• Lifestyle support to regulate your nervous system and restore balance
You’ll receive a recorded video walkthrough explaining your results and exactly how to get started.
Step 4: Support That Fits You
Once your plan is delivered, you’ll have secure messaging access through your client portal for questions and feedback. Your 3 months of access to the Nourish Collective Membership begins the moment you sign up, so you have support from day one. The Nourish Collective Membership includes recipe guides, relaxing subliminal audios, guided hypnotherapy sessions, and women’s health expert workshops.
Why It Works
This is not a cookie-cutter plan. It is a clear, compassionate, data-driven path that honors your individuality and helps you stop spinning your wheels. The NOURISH Method is about helping you feel better faster, with less trial and error and more confidence in what your body truly needs.
Problems associated with mineral imbalances can include fatigue, muscle weakness or pain, digestion issues such as bloating, constipation, diarrhea, stomach pains, chronically recurring infections, infertility, nausea, allergies and intolerances, multiple chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue syndrome, stress, depression, hormonal imbalances, anemia, thyroid problems and ADHD symptoms.
HTMA testing can identify the root causes of these symptoms and allow you to work towards alleviating the symptoms.
HTMA FAQs
What are the benefits of HTMA Testing?
Safe, scientific, non-invasive pathology test.
Reliable data on more than 35 essential minerals, as well as toxic heavy metals, and over 25 important mineral ratios.
Valuable health information often not revealed in standard blood and urine tests.
Discovery of nutrient mineral imbalances or toxic heavy metal or mineral excesses that may be affecting your health.
It is important to determine your mineral status because minerals are absolutely critical for life and abundant health. They are necessary for cellular metabolism, structural support, nerve conduction, muscular activity, immune functions, stress tolerance, antioxidant and endocrine activity, energy production, mood regulation, enzyme functions, water and acid/alkaline balance, and even DNA function.
“HTMA shows how the body’s energy system is out of balance and how to use nutrition and diet to correct it. Once the body’s energy and stamina are restored, it can heal other problems on its own.”
Edward Gogek, M.D
I still have more questions, can we chat?
Absolutely!
Send me an email at kristin@nourishwomenshealth.com and we can chat.
This sounds exciting, how do I get started?
How does it work?
After you purchase the package, I will send the test kit to the address you provided. You will collect a small sample of your hair (directions included in the kit) and send this to the lab to get tested. It is quick, easy and painless and only requires a teaspoon of hair from the root.
What does The Nourish Method/HTMA Testing Package include?
Each testing package includes: HTMA test kit to collect your hair sample and send it to the lab, video review of your test results and explanation of your bio-individual personalized health plan plus a PDF copy of your 15+ page Personalized Bio-individual Health Plan detailing your test results and exactly what you need to do to feel your best, decrease nagging symptoms and thrive! Includes resources for stress management and meal prepping as well as supplements specific to your body.
Email follow up to answer any questions and provide support!
Total investment is $349
Payment Plan Available
We accept FSA/HSA!
Why do I LOVE using HTMA Testing to guide your wellness journey?
One quick example on why I love it so much!
Surprisingly, blood tests only show about 0.3% of the actual Magnesium levels in your body. Whereas HTMA shows about 30-40% since it is looking at the tissue level!
Plus, your body wants your blood to stay balanced so it will pull magnesium (and other minerals) from your tissues to keep your blood levels balanced...but the kicker is...we want it in the tissues. So your blood test can show Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium etc that are all normal when in reality they could be imbalanced in your tissues.
This is why I love running HTMA tests to get a more accurate picture of what has been going on in the body in the last few months so we can really target the next best step on your healing journey❤️
I say it is better to test and know then play "whackamole" with supplements and recommendations.
Can I do this if I color my hair?
Yes. It’s best to test the hair at least 3 weeks after it’s been colored.
For example, if you only do a partial highlight, but don’t color underneath, then you can use the hair underneath and don’t have to wait the 3 weeks.
You need to stop the use of zinc/dandruff shampoos like Selsun Blue for 2 weeks prior to testing.
Questions?
Interested in HTMA testing? Fill out some info and we will be in touch shortly! We can't wait to hear from you!