Heavy Metals + Essential Elements

Comprehensive Toxic & Essential Elements

We are all exposed to different amounts of essential and toxic elements depending on where we live, our diet and supplementation routine, and environmental pollution of the air we breathe. Essential elements are only conducive to optimal health when they are within optimal ranges – levels that are too low or too high can have detrimental effects on health – and exposure to toxic heavy metals has multiple adverse health effects. The comprehensive profile allows a complete assessment of the most important elements implicated in health-related effects, as it includes a measure of both short- and long- term exposure to all four of the most toxic environmental heavy metals, as well as highlighting nutritional element deficiencies earlier than a typical serum test.

✔ Comprehensive Toxic & Essential Elements Profile includes: Dried Urine: Iodine, Selenium, Bromine, Lithium, Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury Blood Spot: Mercury, Cadmium, Zinc, Copper, Selenium, Magnesium

Toxic & Essential Elements - Blood

Blood Essential elements are only conducive to optimal health when they are within optimal ranges – levels that are too low or too high can have detrimental effects on health – and exposure to toxic heavy metals has multiple adverse health effects. DBS testing represents red blood cell levels of the nutritional elements magnesium, zinc, and copper, revealing deficiencies earlier than a typical serum test..

✔ Toxic & Essential Elements - Blood includes: Mercury, Cadmium, Zinc, Copper, Selenium, Magnesium

Toxic & Essential Elements - Urine

Iodine is an essential component of T3 and T4, so its deficiency has a serious impact on thyroid hormone synthesis, while selenium is a component of the selenoproteins, including the deiodinases that convert inactive T4 to active T3, and glutathione peroxidase, an important antioxidant. Arsenic and mercury reduce selenium’s bioavailability and disrupt thyroid health. Arsenic, mercury, and cadmium represent three of the four most toxic heavy metals according to the CDC. Lithium is important for brain health in trace amounts but is toxic when used in excessive amounts pharmacologically .

✔ Toxic & Essential Elements - Urine includes: Iodine, Selenium, Bromine, Lithium, Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury

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