Essential Elements
Essential elements are essential because they are needed to maintain health. For example, potassium and sodium are essential for proper heart function, while calcium and magnesium are essential for bone development.
Hair Element Analysis
Both toxic and essential elements affect health.
Good health depends in part on having adequate amounts of essential nutritional elements, and low levels of toxic elements. Hair element analysis shows nutrient status (essential elements) and toxic element exposure for the length of time it took to grow the hair supplied for testing (usually about three months).
Toxic Elements
Toxic elements usually cause damage by taking the place of essential elements and interfering with their usual function. For example, calcium helps strengthen bone, but lead can take the place of calcium in bone, making bone more porous and less sturdy.
Hair element analysis is an easy and inexpensive way to assess the levels of essential and toxic elements. Less than one gram of hair is needed to test for 45 essential and toxic elements. Rocky Mountain Analytical provides a custom interpretation that explains the patterns of element levels in hair.
About Hair Element Analysis
Urine Element Analysis
Both toxic and essential elements affect health.
Urine element analysis is a simple and inexpensive way to measure levels of essential and toxic elements.
The presence of toxic elements has been linked to:
- neurological problems
- memory impairment
- learning difficulties
- gastrointestinal problems
Why Get Urine Element Analysis?
A small sample of urine can be used to look for essential element deficiencies and for the presence of toxic elements. Many practitioners use a chelating agent to release toxic metals from hidden places in tissue so they can be eliminated in urine.
