By Eileen Durfee — practitioner, inventor, and founder of Wellness Shopping Online
Eileen's hair, saved from when she was a baby, sat untouched for decades. In 2021 she sent those samples — taken at 6, 12, and 18 months of age — to Trace Elements for hair tissue mineral analysis. The reports below show what her body was carrying before she could walk: toxic metals charting at the top of the scale.
3 samples: 6, 12 & 18 months Tested 2021 by Trace Elements Lead printed at 3.5 mg% on the 6-month report
Eileen spent decades battling health problems — and for most of that time, no one thought to ask how early the burden began. When her preserved baby hair was finally tested, the answer was: from the very beginning. On the 6-month report, the toxic-elements panel shows lead, cadmium, and mercury charting high, with lead printed at 3.5 mg% — at the top of the report's toxic-elements scale — along with measurable uranium, arsenic, and aluminum. A baby only months old was already carrying an adult-sized problem.
That is the point of this page. Toxic exposure does not wait for adulthood, and it rarely announces itself with symptoms a pediatric checkup would catch. A hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) reads the mineral and toxic-metal patterns deposited in the hair as it grows — a window into what a child's body has been handling, from a simple hair sample taken at home.
The same HTMA test kit works for children and adults — the lab simply needs a small, clean hair sample and the child's details. Results return as reports like the ones above, showing the child's nutritional minerals, toxic elements, and significant ratios.
These baby-hair reports are the earliest data points in Eileen's documented health journey. The toxic start they show is the backdrop for everything that followed — the years of unexplained illness, the turn to testing-based methods, and the transformation recorded in her urine amino acid case study: from roughly half her markers abnormal in 2022 to a largely normalized profile in 2025. Testing is where her answers started — at every age.
Educational content only — not medical advice. Eileen's reports are her own experience; individual results vary. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Our products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, and nothing on this page is a substitute for care from your child's qualified healthcare professional.
