Episode 440: What does HTMA say about your health with guest Kaely McDevitt

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard about mineral testing your hair? HTMA, hair tissue mineral analysis, is a functional assessment to provide meaningful information on metabolic, hormone, and nervous system regulation. In this episode, Ali interviews guest dietitian and owner of Trace Elements, Kaely McDevitt to learn more about this lab and the role of mineral imbalance on whole body health. Kaely digs into the impact of minerals in metabolic, hormone, and neurological health. She discusses how and why minerals get depleted and root cause approaches for repletion. We discuss our favorite mineral infusions, food-as-medicine, and supplement sources. Also on this episode: Osteofactors provides a whole food bone form of calcium in MCHC Herbal Infusion: 50:50 ratio of Organic Nettles and Organic Oat Straw brewed as a concentrate, sipped diluted The white blood cell micronutrient panel I currently offer Additional Links: www.kaelyrd.com Pregnancy prep guide email freebie: https://kaelyrd.kartra.com/page/foptin Inner Well membership: https://kaelyrd.kartra.com/page/innerwell Deep nutrition More about Kaely Mc Devitt: Kaely McDevitt is a Registered Dietitian specializing in nutrition for women's health. She owns a virtual private practice where she and her team help their clients reclaim their energy, optimize fertility and overcome hormone symptoms through personalized nutrition. Having experienced the pitfalls of a conventional approach to women's health first hand, Kaely is passionate about empowering women to build health from a place of connection: to self, to nature and to community. In addition to her work with clients she is a co-owner of Trace Elements, the internationally recognized provider of HTMA laboratory services and nutritional metabolic products. Sponsors for this episode: This episode is sponsored by FOND Bone Broth, your sous chef in a jar. FOND’s bone broths and tallows are produced in small batches with premium ingredients from verified regenerative ranches. Their ingredients are synergistically paired for maximum absorption, nutritional benefit, and flavor. Use code ALIMILLERRD to save at fondbonebroth.com/ALIMILLERRD

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.
0:12.8	Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes
0:18.3	for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.
0:22.6	From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself
0:28.3	back in control of your health. Please know, the topic is discussed are for educational purposes
0:35.1	only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host, Becky You.
0:42.9	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast. You are joining me for episode 440, what your hair says about your health.
0:51.1	Now, you may be thinking shiny hair, robust follicles, thick hair or hair that grows
0:56.4	really fast, various styles or textures, but actually today's episode is about hair mineral
1:02.5	testing and how assessment can give insight into whole body health. I'll be interviewing guest
1:08.7	and dietician Kaylee McDevitt, who is the owner of Trace
1:13.8	Elements, a lab that provides hair tissue mineral analysis, also known as H-T-Ma.
1:20.4	We're going to nerd out all about minerals and mineral ratios as well as toxic metal assessment,
1:26.8	and Kaylee and I have known each other now for a couple of
1:29.9	years, both living in the greater Austin area. I've lectured for her leveraging labs group,
1:35.4	and she's always intrigued me with the HTML testing that she does in her work with women's hormones.
1:41.9	So I'm super excited to learn along with you guys.
1:46.9	As many of you listeners know,
1:48.6	I'm currently using the spectra cell
1:51.1	or the cell science, white blood cell proliferation,
1:55.0	a lymphocyte assessment that looks at a cellular status
1:59.1	of micronutrient status in the body, but I'm totally open to
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