What can hair reveal about your health?

Graphical abstract: Hair analysis as a biomonitor for toxicology, disease and health statusYour hair can reveal a lot about you – what you’ve eaten, where you live, what you’ve been exposed to and how healthy you are.

In their Chem Soc Rev critical review, Ivan M. Kempson and Enzo Lombi comb through the evidence and address the questions surrounding hair analysis, to try to discover what the concentrations of different elements in hair can actually relate to.

Download the article to find out what can be detected, what it means and why your age, gender, hair colour and curliness can make a difference.

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