Essential Elements and Heavy Metals Toxicity Test (22 Elements and 17 Toxins)

I minored in organic chemistry in college. So I know how to interpret data a bit better than others. I understand zinc/copper ratios. I understand all the metals and what they do. And I had been supplementing minerals for a long time. My problem was I thought I could "infer" deficiencies simply based on how I felt taking certain isolated minerals. Which I knew was stupid as someone who knows chemistry. But being broke can justify such stupid thoughts... no matter how smart you think you are.Like I knew I always responded better to isolated copper, than zinc. Copper always made me feel better. Zinc often did the opposite. But I was always afraid of taking too much copper, and for some reason not afraid of taking too much zinc.I also had mercury almagams taken out recently & was curious of my mercury readings.I also took too much boron.This test was unbelievably accurate and also revealed problems I didn't realize how bad they were.My mercury WAS toxic. I also have toxic antimony levels. Likely from back in college when I use to smoke.My boron was way too high. I am stopping boron supplementation permanently.My copper was unbelievably deficient. My zinc was right in the middle (sufficient enough to ignore for a while). I am stopping zinc for at least 2-3 months, and focusing on copper... until these levels are fixed.My iron, chromium, selenium, vanadium, sulfur & phosphorus were also low.I will bringing up the levels of all of them. The chelated mineral I was taking was not doing much. Or I was simply too copper / iron deficient to transport any of these minerals into tissue which is my suspicion. And mercury / antimony is likely blocking this stuff too.For mercury & antimony, I will begin chelating about 2-3 months from now. With EDTA/DMSA/ALA. But not until I first build up all my essential minerals. I have to test again to see how I respond.I found the tolerable upper limit for copper is 10mg. That's what I started taking. Within 3 days of taking that copper and stopping my zinc... OMG I feel unbelievable already. In only 3 days. It could take months to really get my levels back up. But my brain is so much sharper. Energy is up. I laid out in the sun & unlike 2 weeks ago when I spent 3 hrs outside and didn't get tan at all... today I was outside for 1 hr and got a nice dark tan. It's all adding up slowly how copper deficient I was. Eyesight is also better. Body aches are beginning to go away. 3 days I'm already noticing this stuff.I also did another test (at the same time) for my mom. She had extremely high barium, a bit of mercury from her almagams (also just removed them all), and high titanium.She is older than me & her mineral deficiencies were much worse. She just went out & bought everything to start addressing her more severe deficiencies.Now I just emailed this test to both my brothers. Both will be ordering it soon. I like this test so much in fact I may start promoting it as an affiliate on my YT channel. This test is so important I would recommend it before anything else actually. Before getting hormones checked or anything. There's no point testing your testosterone levels if you have no idea where all your minerals / toxic metals are at. Your organs can't secrete/synthesize this stuff without those essential minerals. There's no point even considering testosterone until you first fix that stuff. And if you do fix that stuff you won't need the test at all.I love this test. One last thing. One test is not your answer to everything. I plan on taking this test 3-4 more times over the next yr or 2. Repeat testing, seeing how you respond to supplementation, how fast / slow your levels come up... that is much more reliable over the long run than doing 1 isolated test 1 time and thinking you know everything. This is how science works.With that said, 1 test is still 100xs better than never doing the test & supplementing based on instinct. If you've never done this test, you have no idea what your copper/zinc ratio is. No supplement in the world will fix that. You may need a lot more copper. Or a lot more zinc. Or a lot more of both. Or none of both and have something completely different going on. You simply won't know without this test.THANK YOU DOCTORS DATA!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! It took me a while to work up the courage to spend $125 on a test... but I put an envelop in my office that I'm putting cash in to save up for more & more of these tests.

Similar to other customers who have left reviews, I never received my results from this company after several months of waiting. Amazon should look into this company and remove them as a seller if they're not going to deliver on their promises and offer refunds to all buyers who never received results even if outside the standard refund period. I'm not sure why they pick and choose which orders to fulfill but for this high price I wouldn't recommend taking the chance that you will be one of the customers who wastes your money and never receives your results or any response from the seller.

Easy to do.Got results in a weekRhonda at Dr’s Data was very knowledgeable and a great pleasure to deal with!!

I received my results within 2 weeks.

Took several weeks to get results. YMMV.

Hair test is controversial. Some doctor’s think is not accurate, some others recommend it. I was under a Functional Medicine doctor care, and thanks to the hair we were able to find what was actually challenging my health. Toxic metals! I had 4 out the 5 considered to be the most frequently found. That was a test that only test for 5. I then, said, what if I had some other, well we ran this test. And surprise, surprise, I had couple of incredible rare, but dangerous ones. I have been testing yearly, on my own, just to see if one day they will go away! There is no way to remove them.The collection process is really simple.The test takes like 1.5 weeks to get resultsThe results are easy to understand.If some of the metals are off limits, you will get a read out of what the potential sources might be and potential ways to detox.Hope this helps.

I did not receive any testing due to a flaw in their design. The package comes with a cardboard "scale" that is meant to tip when you have cut off enough hair. Mine wasn't tipping at all even when I piled all of my leftover past shoulder-length long hair on it, not just the 1 inch root sections they ask for, so I could tell the scale wasn't working. I had already cut off tons of hair, so I sent in what I had collected. It should have been plenty compared to other hair strand tests that only request a few strands. Received an email showing several different random companies involved in this communication chain with the doctor/lab, all of which had strange names not remotely related to medical testing. They said I hadn't submitted enough hair for testing. As I had already cut off noticable patches of hair once, I couldn't do it again. As someone with long hair, this will look weird now growing out. Don't recommend this one.

I can’t say for all of the results. But the things I was showing low in, made sense. And the symptoms matched some of the health issues I’m dealing with. They were also in line with blood tests from my doctor. Not exact, of course, because it’s different tests. But they matched ranges(lower range results on both, or higher range results on both). And some of the results that were on the higher side, also matched my current supplements and diet.So I 100% recommend. I was kind of scared it wouldn’t be legit. But it worked out lolEdit: it would be nice if the items not in range were in red or some other noticeable color. To make it easier to see.