Bad vibrations: voice analysis uses the way you sound to reveal things about your body you don’t yet know
- There are 210 cell types in the body, each with a different frequency that can be analysed to measure a person’s health, say proponents of voice analysis
- A woman in Hong Kong uses it to detect signs of illness and physical and emotional imbalances – then tells you what to eat, listen to and wear to correct them

When a car is working properly, it hums. If you hear strange noises or clanking, something might be wrong and you probably ought to take it for a tune-up – and t he same thinking applies to the human body.
Martha Collard, the founder of Red Doors Studio (a space for meditation and healing) in Wong Chuk Hang in the southern part of Hong Kong Island, uses this analogy with me to explain voice analysis, which is like an audio snapshot of your bodily functions at a given time.
She explains there are 210 different cell types in the body, from the bones and organs to the tissues, each with a different frequency. Their vibrations can be affected by a person’s emotions.
“You can feel it. When someone feels angry or excited or angry, it feels different from when they are calm or happy. That’s how animals pick up how you feel,” Collard says.
“The voice tells the world who you are and how you vibrate,” she says. “Before a disease manifests symptoms, there’s [already] something wrong in the system. It’s like a short circuit and the energy is not flowing properly. The idea is if you can identify that at an early stage, you can take preventive measures and maybe the disease may not manifest later on.”
