Included in the cost of your test is advice, interpretation and support from our functional medicine team on your results via email.

You will be asked to fill out a patient form at checkout which will give us more information on your symptoms, current medications and supplement intake.

Heavy metal poisoning occurs when your body’s soft tissues absorb too much of a particular metal. You might be exposed to high concentrations of metals from food, air or water pollution, as well as medicine, food containers with improper coating, industrial exposure or lead-based paint. Common symptoms across several types of heavy metal poisoning include: diarrhoea, nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, shortness of breath, tingling in your hands and feet, chills and weakness. If you have suffered with any of these symptoms for a long period of time and conventional medicine testing has failed to give you any answers then you may want to consider heavy metal urine or hair sample testing.

A screen for toxic metals using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for 20 toxic elements

Patient Instructions:

It is recommended that you omit fish and shellfish from your diet for 5-7 days prior to collecting your urine sample as these have been shown to temporarily increase the excretion of toxic metals.

Mineral containing nutritional supplements should ideally also be avoided for 24 hours prior to commencing your sample collection.

Collect urine over approximately 6 hours (or provide an early morning specimen). We recommend you select option A on your sample form once you receive your test kit.

View sample instructions HERE