PATIENT BROCHURE: EXATEST: Mineral Analysis, Magnesium and Cardiac Risk Factor Screening

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Intracellular Mineral Analysis

Do You Have Healthy Cells?

How Do You Know?

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Mineral deficiency or imbalance in whole body cells and tissue is quite common and may be associated with a variety of diseases and disorders, (see list below.)

What Roles Do Minerals Play In Maintaining Healthy Cells?

Your body requires a steady supply of many different minerals in order to function properly and maintain good health. All body functions rely on these minerals. Proper levels of various minerals are required for heart function, enzyme production, nerve and brain activity, and cellular division and growth.

Most of our bodies are lacking in one or more of these important life sustaining minerals. This is due to many factors such as aging, medications, improper diet, food processing, depleted soil, pollution and our high stress lifestyles.

Note: EXATEST's Intracellular Testing for Magnesium Imbalance or Deficiency is of particular importance in Cardiology.

Is It Important To Test For Intracellular Mineral Deficiency?

Because your body tissues cannot produce the minerals that you may be lacking, a mineral deficiency must be detected and treated or replaced either through diet or by your physician's prescribed treatment. Self supplementation is not advisable especially for those who are ill or taking medications.

What Is The Best Way To Test My Mineral Levels?

Blood tests are invasive, painful, and inadequate.

Urine tests are messy, cumbersome, and inefficient.

Hair analysis does not measure current mineral status.

None of the methods above measure intracellular minerals using whole body tissue.

Only non-invasive EXA Test, using an Epithelial Cell Tissue specimen, can Correlates results to heart, skeletal muscle, and deep organ tissue.

EXA Test provides information not available with blood tests.

EXA™ TEST tells you how much of the following minerals are found in your cells:

Magnesium
Calcium
Potassium
Phosphorus
Sodium
Chloride

EXA™ TEST can determine if your current mineral supplementation is being effectively utilized by the cells in your body.

Once your mineral baseline is known, you and your health care provider can develop a treatment plan that includes the necessary mineral supplements specific for your body’s needs.

This information can assist your health care provider in maintaining your progress toward optimal health.

EXA™ TEST

is a safe, painless test that accurately measures the minerals inside the cells. Your doctor collects a sample non-invasively from under your tongue and affixes it to a special slide. The slide is then sent to IntraCellular Diagnostics laboratories for analysis.

In the laboratory the cells are exposed to a high energy beam from a scanning electron microscope. The beam excites the minerals in the cell, causing them to give off energy. The energy pattern is computer analyzed as it identifies the elements inside the cell.

EXA™ TEST
Elemental X-Ray Analysis Is Non-invasive and provides information not available with blood tests!

Epithelial Cells correlate with ion levels in muscles, cardiac tissue, and also reflect calcium metabolism.

No Blood is used
Blood elements may vary with immune or allergic status of patients.

No Lymphocytes are artificially cultured or stimulated...Lymphocytes are subject to culture and experimental error.

No Red Cells are used
RBCs are non-nucleated cells with incomplete metabolic path...RBCs do NOT use oxygen and only have glycolytic pathways (unlike fully functional Epithelial cells.)

No Serum is used
Research shows serum is homeostatic and only has a fraction of the elemental content of Epithelial cells.

No Hair is used
Hair produces historical data best suited for heavy metals.

Diseases and Disorders Associated With Mineral Imbalances

Magnesium (Mg)
Heart irregularities, cardiac failure, angina, high blood pressure, calcium deposits, diabetes, kidney stones, high cholesterol, muscle spasms, migraine, eclampsia, PMS, asthma, drug related mineral loss, and potassium deficit.

Calcium (Ca)
Osteoporosis, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, pituitary dysfunction, tetany, leg cramps, periodontal disease, arteriosclerosis, impaired neuromuscular function and malabsorption.

Phosphorus (P)
Bone loss, parathyroid disease, weakness, renal disease, digestive disorders, calcium-magnesium imbalance, nervous disorders, ovarian-liver dysfunction, and enzyme abnormalities.

Phosphorus (P)
Bone loss, parathyroid disease, weakness, renal disease, digestive disorders, calcium-magnesium imbalance, nervous disorders, ovarian-liver dysfunction, and enzyme abnormalities.
Potassium (K)
Cardiac arrhythmias, body fluid imbalance, hypertension, diuretic mineral loss, neuromuscular disease, muscle weakness, hormonal imbalance, fatigue and vascular spasms.

Sodium (Na)
Hypertension, abdominal - muscle cramps, dizziness, convulsions, renal failure, edema, multiple endocrine disorders, and cellular dysfunction.

Chloride (Cl) Cellular abnormalities, kidney disease, adrenal -electrolyte imbalance, hypertension, dehydration and potassium-sodium regulation.

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