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Nutritional treatments and solutions for hair loss by hair analysis have been securing its position as the general hair loss control approach in the western world. Hair testing has been used as a preventive measure to identify the reasons of hair loss and so prevent hair loss as well as ultimately for good health. Hair analysis is a problem solution by scientific approach and the analysis data is important to identify the specific features in a certain area. This paper analyzed the mineral contents of marathon runners with hair loss through hair testing. The subjects were runners with visually identifiable hair loss among runners in Chuncheon Marathon in March 2006. In accordance with the analysis, there were more male runners with hair loss than female runners with hair loss. Subjects in their 40s to 50s had more hair loss. The heavy metal contamination figures among the subjects were higher in the order of aluminum, mercury and barium. The mineral contents among the Korean runners were lower in the order of selenium, manganese, phosphorous and sulfur. The mineral contents among the runners with hair loss were higher in the sequence of potassium, calcium, zinc, sodium, copper and chrome.