Heavy Metal Exposure

Find out if your body is polluted

Excessive Exposure to Toxic Metals?

Exposure to heavy metals is not limited to working in the factories or living near an industrial facility. We are exposed to enormous number of toxic metals sourcing from the vestiges of eating, drinking, breathing and touching the processed products. People start to worry what ‘else’ I have consumed after a series of food safety scandals had broken.

Minerals Imbalance?

Minerals (like Calcium, Iron and Zinc) are important nutrients to maintain our bodily functions. Our body cannot make minerals. When we do not obtain enough minerals from our diet, or absence of some nutrients may affect the uptake of certain minerals.

Improper mineral intake could lead to mineral deficiency, hinder essential functions of the body.

Mineral deficiency or heavy metal expossure
might be cause of health issues

Mineral Deficiency, Heavy Metal Exposure

Checking both minerals and heavy metals

It is important to test both mineral and heavy metal, as heavy metal can hinder mineral absorption besides harming our health.

Some heavy metals have a long half-life in human, even low level exposure may gradually accumulate in us.

Chronic exposure to heavy metal may damage our nervous system or kidney.

Are you at risk of mineral deficiency or heavy metal accumulation?

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Test items

We can screen patients’ mineral status via blood, urine or hair/nail. Each type of the samples is unique to reflect a facet of your mineral/toxic metal

status. The latest technology could accurately measure the level of over 50 kinds of trace elements, reflecting the actual accumulative status in body.

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HK BioTek Technology Competence

The sample will be sent to Micro Trace Minerals Laboratory in Germany for analysis. Accredited by Germany’s National Accreditation Body for AKS-PL-20918 and ISO/IEC17025:2005 in worldwide for reliable testing service.
By utilizing state-of the art equipment, accurate results could be obtained even if the concentration of analytes are very low.

Comprehensive Support

The report is not only revealing the problem in toxic accumulation, it also suggests an all rounded supplementation programme. Combine with healthcare professional’s consultation, you can achieve the optimal health in a simple way!

You will be receiving the followings within 2-3 weeks：

Personal Report

Easy interpretation

Present your level of different hormone, and suggest ways to improve

Sample Reports

The Testing Process

Frequently-Asked Questions

1. What is the difference between testing blood, urine, and hair or nail sample for trace elements?

These three ways are to test for your mineral status. Each type reflects a unique aspect of what is going on in your body.

Blood sample: A short and recent exposure to a mineral as it travels throughout the whole body.

Urine sample: Reflects the excreted levels of minerals and toxic metals in a provoked/non-provoked patient.

Hair (or nail) sample: Reflects long-term mineral/heavy metal status as the excess minerals and nmetals in circulation will bond into keratin in hair/nail.

2. What are the sources of toxic metal elements?

The most common heavy metal elements in Hong Kong are arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury. Heavy metals from pollution and industrial activities have become a part of our urban life. Toxic metals can be founded in water pipes and cosmetics, plus the recent food safety scandals, like methylmercury in fishes and cadmium in rice products; have raised concerns on heavy metals exposure. Some heavy metals are hard to remove and will accumulate in our body once being absorbed. Chronic exposure to heavy metals can increase our health burden, leading to symptoms like hair loss, hand tremors, short memory, or even affect children’s brain development.

3. How long can the test trace back in your system?

Both blood and urine test can reflect the recent status of the minerals/heavy metals, while an overview of long-term element status requests hair or nail sample for analysis. Since the growth rate of hair/nails vary from person to person, the trace-back period is slightly different for everyone. In most of the cases, an analysis of hair/nail sample can show your metal status in 3 to 9 months.

4. How accurate is the test?

All sample will be sent to Micro Trace Minerals Laboratory in Germany for analysis. With the ICP-MS technology, the laboratory can determine the level of metal particles from the sample. Since established, MTM has been specialising for mineral and toxic metal analysis for over 40 years. To ensure the accuracy and reliable testing protocol, MTM has joined the Round Robin Test (i.e. the comparison of analysis between laboratories by a third-party laboratory). In the comparison, the accuracy of MTM is found to be 100%! This shows that the measurement and analysis done in this laboratory is highly accurate and reliable.

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