Note: This is a home collection test kit that will be mailed to you.
Fasting Required: No
Specimen: Hair
Results: 5-7 Business Days
Description:
Tests for 31 Toxic Metals only. It was developed at the request of physicians that had patients with known industrial or environmental exposure to the specific toxic metals.
With respect to its contained elements, hair is essentially an excretory tissue rather than a functional tissue. As protein is synthesized in the hair follicle, elements are incorporated permanently into the hair with no further exchange or equilibration with other tissues. Scalp hair is easy to sample, and because it grows an average of one to two cm per month, it contains a “temporal record” of element metabolism and exposure to toxic elements.
Toxic elements may be 200 to 300 times more highly concentrated in hair than in blood or urine. Therefore, hair is the tissue of choice for detection of recent exposure to elements such as arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, lead, antimony and mercury. The CDC acknowledges the value of hair mercury levels as a maternal and infant marker for exposure to neurotoxic methylmercury from fish.
Includes:
- Aluminum
- Antimony
- Arsenic
- Barium
- Beryllium
- Bismuth
- Cadmium
- Cesium
- Chromium
- Cobalt
- Copper
- Gadolinium
- Germanium
- Gold
- Lead
- Manganese
- Mercury
- Nickel
- Palladium
- Platinum
- Selenium
- Silver
- Tellurium
- Thallium
- Thorium
- Tin
- Titanium
- Tungsten
- Uranium
- Vanadium
- Zinc
Note: Result turnaround times are an estimate and are not guaranteed. Our reference lab may need additional time due to weather, holidays, confirmation/repeat testing, or equipment maintenance.