Product Description

**Note: All laboratory testing requires an authorizing physician. DHA Laboratory offers a patient direct program that partners you with an authorizing physician. If you have any additional questions regarding the availability of testing, please contact our laboratory by telephone or email.**

Please note that the purchase of this test requires a physical test kit to be shipped to your home to complete testing. Once your order is submitted, you will receive a tracking number for your shipment from DHA Laboratory, and your kit will arrive with everything needed to get started. If you have any questions regarding the tests, the testing process, or need assistance with your lab order at any time, please contact DHA Laboratory at T: (847) 222-9546 / E: info@dhalab.com

Sample Type: Hair

Turnaround Time: Approximately 2-3 Weeks

Performing Laboratory: Doctor’s Data

Hair Elements for Toxic and Heavy Metals

The Hair Elements for heavy and toxic metals provides information regarding recent and long term exposure to toxic metals.  In addition, this test shows a time averaged status of specific nutrient elements. The Hair Elements test is noninvasive – requiring only .25 grams of hair cut from the back of the head.

The Hair Elements tests for:

• Aluminum
• Antimony
• Arsenic
• Barium
• Beryllium
• Bismuth
• Boron
• Cadmium
• Calcium
• Chromium
• Cobalt
• Copper
• Germanium
• Iodine
• Iron
• Lead
• Lithium
• Magnesium
• Manganese
• Mercury
• Molybdenum
• Nickel
• Phosphorus
• Platinum
• Potassium
• Rubidium
• Selenium
• Silver
• Sodium
• Strontium
• Sulfur
• Thallium
• Thorium
• Tin
• Titanium
• Uranium
• Vanadium
• Zinc
• Zirconium

The hair analysis test is useful for patients who have been at risk of toxic element exposure, consuming excessive amounts of fish, or have vision problems. In addition, this test can be useful for patients experiencing depression, fatigue, malabsorption, hypertension, symptoms related to Parkinson’s disease, or issues with kidney function.

Due to the rate at which hair grows (1cm to 2cm per month), it provides a record of element metabolism and exposure to toxic elements. The levels of the tested elements in the Hair Elements test allows for practitioners to correlate the data with the levels of heavy and toxic metals in organs and other tissues.

Hair is the tissue of choice for detection of recent exposure to heavy and toxic metals due to the fact that these metals are 200 to 300 times more concentrated than in blood or urine.