Hair Analysis: Minerals & Metals
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Hair tissue analysis of important minerals and heavy metals
✔️ Practitioner-Grade Test
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✔️ 8 essential minerals & 8 toxic heavy metals
✔️ Actionable and personalised advice
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What’s Stored in Your Tissues?
Discover the vital insights into your body’s mineral and metal balance with our comprehensive Hair Analysis of Minerals and Metals. This thorough test reveals crucial information to enhance your health by identifying mineral deficiencies/excess and toxic metal exposures.
Why Choose Our Hair Analysis for minerals and heavy metals?
Precise Mineral and Metal Profiling
Understand the levels of essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and zinc. Detect toxic metals like lead, mercury, and cadmium that may impact your health.
Actionable Health Advice
Receive personalised recommendations for supplementing the right nutrients and minerals. Our analysis helps you create a protocol for heavy metal detoxification, which can reduce inflammation, boost your immune system, and enhance overall well-being.
Protect Your Nutrient Balance
Correcting heavy metal toxicity helps preserve essential nutrients for your body’s use, preventing pathogens or parasites from thriving in your gut microbiome.
How It Works
Sample Collection
Simply send us a small sample of your hair. Hair analysis is stable and provides a long-term view of your mineral and metal levels. If you do not have head hair, pubic hair or fingernails are also accepted.
Laboratory Analysis
Our advanced laboratory processes your sample to detect and measure a wide range of minerals and metals.
Comprehensive Report
You’ll receive a detailed report highlighting any imbalances or toxic exposures, along with personalised recommendations for supplements and detoxification.
The Importance of Mineral and Metal Balance
Vital for Body Functions
Essential minerals like magnesium and zinc are crucial for numerous enzymatic reactions and cellular processes.
Detect Deficiencies Early
Symptoms of deficiencies, such as low iron or calcium levels, can appear long before they show up in blood tests. Early detection allows for proactive health management.
Identify Toxic Exposure
Heavy metals can enter the body through the skin, inhalation, or ingestion, potentially leading to chronic pain, fatigue, cognitive issues, and more. Our test helps you identify and address these exposures before they cause significant health problems.
What is Your Nutritional and Mineral Status?
Mineral analysis can be assessed in hair, urine, serum, and red cells. Mineral imbalances can indicate subclinical status prior to the presentation of a medical condition. Pathology assessments provide a precise indicator of the activity of many metabolic processes within the body. Hair Mineral Analysis can provide important insights into supportive strategies for conditions ranging from depression and behaviour disorders to cardiovascular and neurological illnesses.
Why Test for Minerals?
Minerals are used in nearly every metabolic process in the body. But our body doesn’t produce minerals, so we must obtain them from our diet and environment. Absorption of minerals depends on the quality of our soil, food, cooking methods, stomach acid, gut microbiome and overall health status.
Copper and Mercury: High levels of these metals can lead to mental health disturbances, cognitive issues, and learning difficulties.
Calcium: An imbalance in calcium intake, especially with low levels of vitamin D, magnesium, or phosphorus, can disrupt the body’s calcium regulation. This may lead to bone health issues such as severe osteoporosis, even if blood calcium levels appear normal.
Iron: Symptoms of iron deficiency like fatigue on exertion, difficulty concentrating and feeling out of breath easily, can appear long before low levels are detected in blood tests.
Zinc: An essential nutrient often deficient in many people, zinc is crucial for insulin production, storage, and secretion, as well as growth hormone production. However, supplementing with too much zinc if its not required can throw off our copper levels.
Magnesium: This mineral works synergistically with calcium and is essential for normal muscle function, especially in the heart. Magnesium deficiency has been linked to an increased risk of heart attacks, anxiety, and nervousness.
Why Test for Metals?
Heavy metals can enter the body through the skin, inhalation, or ingestion. Toxicity occurs when these metals displace essential elements in the body and affect the normal function of various organs. Acute or chronic exposures can occur in workplaces, such as industries using metals like cadmium, lead, and mercury, and in some pesticides. Exposure can also occur in agricultural workers, those cleaning up contaminated sites, auto mechanics working with car batteries, and those with hobbies involving metals, such as stained glass artisans.
Signs of Metal Toxicity
- Chronic pain and fatigue
- Brain fog
- Chronic infections such as Candida
- Gastrointestinal complaints
- Food allergies
- Dizziness
- Migraines and/or headaches
- Mood swings, depression, and/or anxiety
- Nervous system malfunctions
Our Test Includes:
- 8 Minerals: Calcium (Ca), Chromium (Cr), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Magnesium (Mg), Manganese (Mn), Selenium (Se), Zinc (Zn)
- 8 Toxic Metals: Aluminium (Al), Arsenic (As), Cadmium (Cd), Mercury (Hg), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb), Silver (Ag), Tin (Sn)
Which Test is Best?
- Hair Mineral Analysis: More stable than blood tests as blood is subject to daily and sometimes hourly variations. Hair analysis provides a long-term view of mineral and metal levels in the body, making it an ideal baseline test.
- Urine Tests: Measure what metals are being excreted, reflecting the metabolic status of minerals and metals. If you are wanting to test for neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin etc, a dry urine sample is appropriate.
- Blood Tests: Measure what is being absorbed and temporarily in circulation before excretion and/or transportation into storage depots. Urine and blood can both be used for heavy metal testing, but they do not necessarily test for the same forms of the metal. If you are wanting to test for food intolerances, a blood test is ideal.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Hair Analysis of Minerals and Metals?
Hair Analysis of Minerals and Metals is a comprehensive test that examines the levels of essential minerals and toxic metals in your body through a small sample of hair. It provides valuable insights into your nutritional status and exposure to harmful substances.
What can I expect from the comprehensive report?
You’ll receive a detailed report highlighting any mineral imbalances or toxic exposures detected in your hair sample. This report includes personalised recommendations to support your health goals, such as improving nutrient balance and reducing toxic metal burden.
What are the signs of mineral deficiencies and metal toxicity?
Signs may include chronic fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, cognitive difficulties, mood swings, and more. Early detection through Hair Analysis can help address these symptoms before they develop into significant health issues.
Can Hair Analysis be used to prevent health problems
Yes, detecting nutrient deficiencies and toxic metal exposure early allows for proactive health measures. It enables you to adjust your diet, lifestyle, and supplement intake to maintain optimal health and prevent potential health complications.
How does Hair Analysis help improve health?
This analysis helps identify nutrient deficiencies early, even before they show up in traditional blood tests. It also detects toxic metal exposure, allowing for proactive health management and tailored recommendations for supplementation and detoxification.
Why choose Hair Analysis over blood or urine tests?
Hair Analysis offers a stable, long-term view of your mineral and metal levels, unlike blood tests which can fluctuate daily. It’s ideal for detecting chronic exposure to toxic metals, as these substances are stored in tissues like hair rather than circulating in blood or urine for long periods.
How does Hair Analysis contribute to holistic health management?
By assessing mineral imbalances and toxic metal exposure, Hair Analysis provides insights that support holistic approaches to managing conditions ranging from mood disorders to cardiovascular health, enhancing overall well-being.
Who can benefit from Hair Analysis of Minerals and Metals?
Anyone interested in understanding their nutritional status and exposure to toxic metals can benefit from this test. It’s particularly valuable for individuals experiencing chronic health issues or seeking to optimise their health through targeted interventions.