MineralCheck provides accurate analysis of nutritional balance and long-term effectiveness of mineral supplements. It can evaluate the nutritional impact of your diet and reveal key shortages linked to poor health and increased risk of degenerative disease. It also detects long-term exposure to toxins with an advanced laboratory analysis of a small hair sample. Health screen results come with a valuable resource guide that describes sources and symptoms of toxic exposure, and provides solutions for their effective reduction. 

• Measures 11 minerals and 9 toxic elements
• An imbalance can affect: sexual function, immune system, and much more
• Convenient Hair Sample

Price: $60.00

Minerals and Toxins Affect You In Many Ways

Minerals and toxins are found everywhere. From the food you eat to the air you breathe to the water you drink, these elements play a major role in nearly every facet of your life. And because we're all different from one another, each of us has our own individual sensitivities to different toxins. Having proper levels of minerals is vital for your overall health and well-being. MineralCheck by BodyBalance assesses your body's levels of the following 11 minerals and 9 toxic elements:

MINERALS: Calcium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iodine, Magnesium, Manganese, Selenium, Strontium, Sulfur, Zinc

TOXIC ELEMENTS: Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Bismuth, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Tin

• Calcium, besides being an important factor in bone development and maintenance, is also vital to heart and muscle function, and nerve conductivity. Calcium can be found in dark green leafy vegetables, dairy products, and canned salmon and sardines.
• Zinc is influential in sexual function, immune system, hair loss, tissue aging and digestive function. Dietary sources of zinc include: meats, nuts, seeds, leafy and root vegetables, and crustaceans.
• Magnesium can affect cardiovascular function, high blood pressure, and areas of mental health--depression, anxiety, decreased learning ability, and poor memory. Magnesium is found in oatmeal, buckwheat, chocolate, whole grains, and dark green leafy vegetables.
• Lead attaches to blood and is often deposited in bones, the brain, adrenal and thyroid glands, and the liver. One of the most common toxics, lead can be found in water, paint, cigarettes, cosmetics, some pesticides, and foods such as meats, garden fruits, and grains.
• Nickel is contained in car exhaust, cigarette smoke, and industrial waste and can contribute to nausea and headaches.
• Excessive exposure to mercury can cause headaches, excitability, poor mental concentration, fatigue, and insomnia. Mercury can be found in dental fillings, shellfish, large fish, paints, tattoo dyes, ceramics, and electrical relays.

These are just a few descriptions of how minerals and toxins can affect your health and the way that you live. Making sure your body has the proper levels of minerals and low, harmless levels of toxins can really make a difference in your health. MineralCheck can help you make that difference.

Why are Mineral Nutrients so Important?

Mineral nutrients are essential to life.

Without mineral nutrients, your body wouldn't be able to function. Mineral nutrients serve as the basic structural components of your skeletal system, blood proteins, enzymes, and certain hormones and vitamins. Your body uses minerals to produce energy and carry out important biochemical processes such as enzyme reactions, hormone production, and nerve transmission. Mineral nutrients also help promote proper growth and development of tissue, and assist in healthy heart and muscle function.

Where Does The Body Get Mineral Nutrients?
Having a full complement of all minerals is important. Your body cannot make essential minerals; they must come from your diet. Modern food processing and farming techniques can reduce the mineral content of some foods by as much as 99%, helping make mineral deficiencies more widespread than vitamin deficiencies. Another reason for mineral deficiencies is that minerals are not released as easily from food compounds as vitamins are.

What Are Some Important Mineral Nutrients?
Your body depends on several key mineral nutrients. These include calcium for bone tissue and muscle function; magnesium for heart function and energy production; iodine for thyroid function; manganese for skin tissue, hair growth, and immune function; and zinc for sexual function, digestion, and wound healing. Some other important mineral nutrients include chromium, cobalt, copper, strontium, sulfur and selenium; a powerful antioxidant that can protect your body from cell damage linked to premature aging and degenerative disease.

How Do Nutritional Imbalances Affect My Health?
Nutritional elements are such an integral part of your body's structural and metabolic function. Imbalances, either too little (mineral deficiency) or either too much (mineral toxicity) can trigger a wide variety of symptoms that range in intensity from mild to severe.

• Poor wound healing
• Hair loss
• Allergies
• Stress
• Weight problems

• Diarrhea
• Anemia
• Dry hair
• Anxiety & depression
• Muscle cramps
• Irritability

• Weakness
• Back and joint pain
• Fatigue
• Poor memory
• Insomnia

Ho Common Are Nutrient Imbalances?
Nutrient imbalances often go undetected in a great number of people even when these imbalances provoke unpleasant symptoms. Many clinical studies have reported multiple mineral deficiencies in a large percentage of the U.S. population. One researcher found that the average daily intake of copper by individuals consuming typical Western diets was only about half of the 2 - 3 mg required for optimal health. Another important study revealed that the average selenium consumption in the U.S. is typically less than half of the amount necessary to help prevent certain diseases.

What Causes Nutrient Imbalances?
Imbalances of mineral elements can stem from poor diet, genetic predisposition, maldigestion or malabsorption of food, excess stress, or an improper balance of nutritional supplements.

MineralCheck is a simple hair analysis that measures levels of 11 crucial nutrient elements in your body.

What We Can Do...
MineralCheck is a safe, easy-to-use, and reliable health screen that uses a small hair sample to measure your mineral and toxin levels. Hair samples show the long-term accumulation of minerals and toxic elements in your system. Hair is nourished from your bloodstream where minerals and toxics are found. This non-invasive and inexpensive health screen provides you with the accuracy of a laboratory analysis without leaving the comfort of your own home. When you order your health screen, we'll send you a complete kit. You collect the required hair sample and send it back to us in the prepaid return mailer provided. Within 7-10 working days of receiving your sample, we'll send your results to you.

What You Can Do For Yourself...
With minerals and toxins all around us, their effect on our bodies is can be profound. Monitoring our body's accumulation of minerals and toxics is vital to optimal health. With the information you'll receive from your MineralCheck health screen, you'll know how your mineral and toxic element levels compare with safe, normal levels and what those levels mean for your health. If your results show that your levels are not properly balanced, you can then work with your health care provider to develop a safe and productive plan for getting your levels to their proper balance. The goal of MineralCheck is to provide you with valuable information you can use to get the proper balance of minerals and toxins in your body for optimal health, information that puts you in control.

References for minerals and toxins

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Savory J, Wills M. Trace Minerals: essential nutrients or toxins. Clin Chem 1992; 38(8): 1565-1573.

Suzuki T, Yamamoto R. Organic mercury levels in human hair with and without storage for eleven years. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 1982; 28: 186-188.

Werbach MR. Foundations of Nutritional Medicine: A Sourcebook of Clinical Research. 1997; Third Line Press, Inc., Tarzana, CA: 45-78, 135-150, 267-294.