Comprehensive Urine Elements Profile - Urine

Comprehensive Urine Elements Profile - Measures urinary excretion of 20 toxic metals as well as other minerals.

In addition to measuring classic elemental toxics, both profiles assess elements used in the medical, aerospace, nuclear, and high-tech electronic industries. Use of these potential toxins is increasing because of their growing commercial, industrial, and medical applications.

Heavy Metals

• Aluminum
• Antimony
• Arsenic
• Barium
• Bismuth
• Cadmium
• Cesium
• Gadolinium
• Gallium
• Lead
• Mercury
• Nickel
• Niobium
• Platinum
• Rubidium
• Thallium    Thorium
• Tin
• Tungsten
• Uranium
• Creatinine

Accumulations of these toxics can occur in the human body in response to occupational exposures or to environmental exposures from toxic release in air, soil, or industrial waste streams. Metal refining, alloying, plating, and part manufacture in the aerospace and machine tool industries, fabrication of nuclear reactor fuel assemblies, and especially electronics and computer manufacture are possible sources of exposure.

Evidence suggests that chronic toxic element exposure can adversely affect respiratory, renal, cardiac, hepatic and immune functions, compromise cognitive and emotional health, debilitate energy levels, impair neurologic development and function, trigger reproductive dysfunction, and increase the risk of cancer and other degenerative conditions.

Moreover, as time elapses, researchers are discovering detrimental health effects of toxic heavy metals at lower and lower exposure levels, raising the issue of whether any toxic element level in the body is safe.