Whilst lecturing at NCA recently, one of the things I was asked to share was more case histories. So here is the first one, not mine, but from fantastic practitioner who uses a lot of HMA in his clinic alongside other testing and good old fashioned case history taking.
"Client comes into my practice with a test result from a recent vaginal swab after complaining of burning sensations after sexual intercourse. Her report showed heavy yeast overgrowth and was recommended a c ... ourse of antibiotics. My investigative hat went on and I started to do some digging to find out what was causing this.

Main lifestyle complaints are excessive stress and poor sleep, suffered from asthma as a child. She was on the birth control pill for many years and just recently came off it so immediately I start to think about hormonal imbalances and key nutrient depletions - B9, B2, B6, B12, vit C/E, mineral imbalances especially magnesium, selenium, zinc and copper, and heavy metals especially mercury, overall causing a toxic terrain for the yeast to proliferate. wedding collections With Lace Appliques in knee length

HTMA shows calcium shell (body using it as a buffer from toxins), potassium channel is blocked (often from copper or mercury which is showing at moderate levels) and low selenium (needed to detox mercury). HPA-axis dysfunction.

Urinary porphyrins test is more functional for looking at the effect of metals in heme biosynthetic pathway and shows effects of mercury (precoproporphyrin) as well as possible lead (coproporphyrin) in her case, which didn't show in the hair and often doesn't upon initial testing"
So, the testing as formed part of the picture to now help restore the client to help.