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Essential and Toxic Elements: What Your Body Might Be Telling You Our bodies rely on a careful balance of essential elements to function optimally, but we're also exposed to potentially toxic elements through everyday environmental and dietary sources. Identifying the right levels of these elements can have a profound impact on health. Let’s explore what each element reveals and how advanced testing methods like dried urine and dried blood spot (DBS) testing provide critical insights. Essential Elements Iodine Iodine is critical for thyroid hormone production (T4 and T3). Found in dairy, seafood, iodized salt, and grains, this nutrient must be...

Saliva testing is used for measuring hormones like cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, DHAES and testosterone, and its non-invasive collection asks patients to spit into a plastic tube. This sampling method allows patients to collect saliva at home at specific times, which is important for accurately measuring hormone levels. Why do we test hormones in saliva? Steroid hormones in the bloodstream are 95-99% bound to carrier proteins, and in this form are unavailable to target tissues. Saliva testing measures the amount of hormone available to target tissues – the bioavailable amount. For this reason, saliva testing better relates to specific symptoms of excess...

HORMONE LAB IS OFFICIAL TEST PROVIDER OF ZRT LABORATORY Click to see Saliva Hormone Test Kits Click to see Dried Blood Hormone Test Kits Click to see Dried Urine Hormone Test Kits Original of this article was published on ZRT Laboratory Blog.  It is well known fact that “sitting is the new smoking,” and that our health suffers greatly from being lazy and inactivity. The human body was meant to be in motion at least for an hour or two a day, and this is known to keep the cardiovascular system tuned up as well as preventing excessive weight gain....