Test Overview of Blood Mineral Panel

Blood metal analysis gives a current snapshot of nutritional mineral status as well as circulating toxic metals. Blood metal analysis is most useful in determining current nutritional status of essential minerals. It does not reflect total body burden of toxic metals, as toxins can rapidly leave the blood to deposit in other tissues such as the bones and brain.

Test Indications of Blood Mineral Panel

  • First-line test for evaluating nutritional mineral status and acute toxicity.
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), Asperger's Syndrome, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD, ADHD), and learning disability.
  • Depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders.
  • Autoimmune disorders, joint pain, and psoriasis.
  • Alzheimer's Disease.
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.
  • Environmental toxicity.
  • Seizure disorders.

Sample Collection for Blood Mineral Panel

  1. Your doctor will draw the blood sample or refer you to a blood draw facility in your area.
  2. Sample collected in Royal Blue top tube with EDTA, 4mL minimum, full tube preferred. Invert 10 times to ensure mixing.

Your doctor or lab may have different instructions that supersede the above.

Labs Performing Blood Mineral Panel Test

Name of LabLab CodeEstimated CostProcessing TimeComments
Go to external Internet siteGreat Plains  $195 + draw fee Cash discount and some insurance

Costs cited are subject to change and may be reduced by insurance or cash discounts and increased by sample collection fees.

Theory of Blood Mineral Panel

Nutritional Metals

  • Calcium
  • Magnesium
  • Sodium
  • Potassium
  • Phosphorus
  • Copper
  • Zinc
  • Manganese
  • Lithium
  • Strontium
  • Sulfur
  • Molybdenum

Toxic Metals

  • Bismuth
  • Cadmium
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Nickel
  • Uranium

References regarding Blood Mineral Panel

  •       [GP2008]   Great Plains Laboratory, William Shaw, Lori Knowles, Kurt Woeller. Physician Practitioner Training (Autism) Lecture Notes and Documentation. Tempe, AZ (8/23/2008 – 8/24/2008). View full text on Internet: https://www.greatplainslaboratory.comFULL TEXT

    • Unless specifically noted above, references used in the construction of this web page include the following:

    [FMU] Lecture notes from Functional Medicine University.

    [SCNM] Lecture notes from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

    [UT] Lecture notes from the University of Tennessee graduate programs in Chemistry, Microbiology, and Biochemistry.