What is the OligoScan Mineral Test?
OligoScan is a technological revolution that allows you to test your nutritional minerals and toxic metals directly through your skin in real-time. This amazing new technology provides accurate real-time results through the use of a portable spectrophotometer that measures the specific and unique optical fingerprint of 20 Essential Nutritional Minerals and 14 Toxic Metals. OligoScan Mineral Analysis makes it possible to accurately assess the active tissue levels of the essential nutritional minerals as well as the unwanted toxic levels of heavy metals in your body.
How does the Oligoscan work?
The method used by OligosScan to obtain these results is via the sue of a miniaturized spectrophotometer that measures the absorbance or the optical density of minerals directly through your skin. The basic principle is that every chemical compound absorbs, emits or reflects light (electromagnetic radiation) in a unique pattern that gives it a virtual optical fingerprint.
What is the difference from other technologies?
OligoScan has been conceived to make a precise test of the bioavailability of minerals, trace elements and heavy metals in the body’s living tissues. The measure is made on the skin of the palm. This allows one to see what is happening directly in tissues and not in the body’s fluids which are thus much more unstable and less reliable. Indeed, the test on the urine allows us to see only what the body excretes. Hair analysis shows only what has occurred in the body, a few weeks ago, or even a few months ago. Blood mineral tests show only the minerals that are in circulation, moving into or out of body cells at that precise moment, or just the last few hours. The OligoScan, on the other hand, allows your physician to assess the mineral levels that are actively effecting body function within the cells, as well as the level of toxic minerals stored in the tissues, all at the same time.
What are the advantages for the patient?
The patient is unquestionably the big winner of OligoScan test. The test is realized in real time, is pain-free, and provides the ability of immediate calculation of deficiency, sufficiency, or toxic accumulation of the minerals tested. Treatment of deficiency states and detoxification of heavy metal excesses can be re-tested over time to assess he success of the therapy to supplement or detoxify the body.
Key Toxic Metal Pollutants and their Risks to Humans
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Aluminum
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Cadmium
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Lead
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Mercury
The heavy metals aluminum, cadmium, lead and mercury are common air pollutants, emitted mainly as a result of industrial activity. Even low atmospheric levels contribute to build-up in soils, where they persist in the environment and accumulate in the food-chain both on land and in water. Heavy metals are associated to different degrees with a wide range of conditions, including kidney and bone damage, developmental and neurobehavioural disorders, memory loss, elevated blood pressure and potentially even lung cancer.
Aluminum toxicity has increased dramatically in the last several years. Today, nearly 80% of those tested for metal toxicity reveal excessive aluminum levels. Aluminum appears to accumulate in most brain cells inhibit cholinergic functioning and may inhibit synaptic uptake of dopamine, norepinephrine and 5-hydroxytryptamine. Later symptoms of Aluminum toxicity include paralytic muscular conditions, loss of memory and mental confusion.
Cadmium exposures are associated with kidney and bone damage. Cadmium has also been identified as a potential human carcinogen, causing lung cancer.
Lead exposures have developmental and neurobehavioural effects on fetuses, infants and children, and elevate blood pressure in adults.
Mercury is also toxic in the elemental and inorganic forms, but the main concern is associated with the organic compounds, especially methylmercury, that accumulate in the food-chain, i.e. in predatory fish in lakes and seas, as these are the main routes of human exposure. Mercury has been shown to concentrate in the thyroid and pituitary glands, interfering with their function, causing fatigue, low blood sugar, allergies. It also accumulates in the nervous system causing memory loss, neuromuscular weakness, tremors and neuropathy.