Metals – Toxic + Nutrient Elements – Hair

Description

Metals – Toxic + Nutrient Elements – Hair

The Metals Hair Test is an affordable and insightful tool for detecting imbalances in essential and toxic elements. It helps identify whether the body has an excess, deficiency, or uneven distribution of key elements—valuable information that supports the early detection of related health concerns.

How the Test Works

Due to rising pollution and industrial chemical use, heavy metal exposure has become more common. The Metals Hair Test measures these exposures by analyzing hair, which naturally locks in trace elements during its growth cycle.

As hair forms, proteins in the follicles bind to elements, preserving them permanently within the strands. This makes hair a reliable record of past element exposure.

Clinical Application

Doctors may recommend the Metals Hair Test to evaluate a person’s current exposure to harmful metals. Research shows that scalp hair element levels often reflect systemic levels in the body.

Combined with symptoms and other lab results, the test can provide critical insight to help identify disorders linked to disruptions in essential and toxic element metabolism.

Test Sensitivity

According to Mosaic Diagnostics: “Toxic elements can be concentrated in hair at levels 200–300 times higher than in blood or urine. This makes hair an excellent tissue for detecting recent exposure to metals such as arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, antimony, lead, and mercury.”

Health Impact

When toxic metals build up in body tissues or the brain, they can contribute to serious developmental and neurological problems.

CDC Recognition: The CDC highlights the importance of hair mercury testing, noting its value as a marker for maternal and infant exposure to neurotoxic methylmercury from fish.