Your Health Where It Belongs... Your Hands

Note: This is a home collection test kit that will be mailed to you. This is not a test performed at Quest Diagnostics

Fasting Required: No
Lab: ZRT Laboratory
Specimen: Dried Bloodspot and Dried Urine
Results: Average processing time 5-7 business days
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.

Patient Instructions:

• Avoid for 3 days prior to testing: biotin/vitamin B7 (hair and nail formulas)
• Avoid taking Germanium for 60 days prior to test
• Refrain from drinking more than 8 oz water in the hour before each dried urine strip collection to allow your urine to concentrate.
• If you take iodine and/or selenium supplements (lodoral, multi-vitamin) daily, continue to take them as usual when testing. If you eat foods high in iodine or selenium, or take supplements only periodically, avoid them the day before and day of your urine collection. Foods highest in iodine include seafood, seaweed (kelp) and dairy products. Foods highest in selenium include brazil nuts.

DRIED BLOOD SPOT or DRIED URINE samples should be kept at room temperature and will remain stable for shipping over weekends and holidays, and during hot temperatures.

Description: 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.

These toxic elements can significantly increase our risk of developing conditions like dementia, infertility, diabetes and cancer. They are also known to cause damage to the liver, kidneys and brain, as well as the cardiovascular, nervous and endocrine systems.

Essential elements are abundant, too, and only healthy when they are within optimal ranges. Nutrients like copper, iodine, magnesium, selenium and zinc are critical for enzymes that synthesize neurotransmitters and activate hormones. Bromine and lithium, while not currently classified as “essential” elements, have been shown to play a positive role in health but are also potentially toxic at excessive levels.

Tests Included:
Dried Urine:

• Iodine
• Selenium
• Bromine
• Lithium
• Arsenic
• Cadmium
• Mercury

Blood Spot:

• Mercury
• Cadmium
• Zinc
• Copper
• Selenium
• Magnesium