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Toxin Zoomer

Urine Test
See the everyday chemicals, molds, and metals your body has recently taken in, all mapped from a single urine sample.
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Should you take a Toxin Zoomer test?

This test is most useful if any of these apply to you.

Living or Working Around Exposures
You farm, do industrial work, or live in a damp or older building and want to see what is actually reaching your body.
Trying to Lower Your Chemical Load
You are changing your food, water, and products and want a baseline to measure whether those swaps are working.
Curious About Environmental Factors
You have unexplained concerns and want to explore whether everyday exposures might be part of the picture, without expecting a diagnosis.
Planning a Pregnancy
You want to reduce exposures that studies link to pregnancy and reproductive outcomes before you conceive.
What's included

109 biomarkers included

Overview

About Toxin Zoomer

Your body carries traces of the modern world. Residues from food packaging, cleaning products, farm chemicals, mold in damp buildings, and pollution in water and air enter through what you eat, breathe, and touch. Most of these compounds leave in your urine within hours to days.

This panel captures that outflow. It measures more than 100 exposure markers at once, across six chemical families, from a single urine sample. It is an exposure screen, not a diagnosis, so it shows what is reaching your body rather than proving any chemical is making you ill.

What This Panel Reveals

The value here is breadth. People are rarely exposed to one chemical at a time, and this panel is built to show the full mixture you are carrying at the moment of collection. Six groups make up the picture.

  • Everyday consumer chemicals: breakdown products of soft plastics and food packaging (including bisphenol A, known as BPA), fragrance and cosmetic preservatives (parabens), the antibacterial agent triclosan, and detergent residues.
  • Pesticides and herbicides: markers of weed killers such as glyphosate and 2,4-D, insect sprays, and older banned compounds like DDT.
  • Solvent and combustion markers: urinary byproducts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from fuel, paint, tobacco smoke, and industrial air, plus perchlorate, a contaminant that competes with iodine in the thyroid.
  • Mold byproducts (mycotoxins): toxins made by molds growing on food and in water-damaged buildings, including aflatoxins, ochratoxin A, and deoxynivalenol.
  • Forever chemicals (PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances): long-lasting compounds from nonstick coatings, water-resistant fabrics, and contaminated drinking water.
  • Heavy metals: elements such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic from food, water, dust, and industry.

One more marker, creatinine, is measured to correct for how dilute your urine is, so a heavily watered-down sample is not mistaken for low exposure. Read together, these markers describe your personal exposure profile: which classes are showing up, and which single sources may be driving them.

How to Read Your Results Together

No single number tells the story here. The pattern across markers is what points you toward a source you can actually change.

PatternWhat It Suggests
Many markers faintly detectable, none highThe background exposure almost everyone shares. Common and expected, not a cause for alarm.
One pesticide or herbicide marker stands outA specific source worth tracing, such as your diet, lawn care, or workplace.
Plastic, BPA, and paraben markers cluster highPersonal care products and food packaging are the likely drivers, both of which are quickly changeable.
A metal reads high in urineRecent exposure. Confirm with a blood test, which is the more reliable matrix for most metals.

Some of these exposures have been studied against real health outcomes, though the evidence is observational. In a pooled study of 6,045 pregnancies, several phthalate breakdown products were associated with 12% to 16% higher odds of preterm birth for each step up in exposure. Among adults, those with the highest levels of two phthalate markers had roughly 44% and 37% higher odds of cardiovascular disease than those with the lowest. These are population associations, not predictions for any one person.

When Results Can Be Misleading

Most chemicals in this panel are short-lived, so a spot urine sample is a snapshot of the last hours to days, not your long-term average. Levels for markers like BPA and many pesticides swing widely from day to day; in reproducibility studies, BPA scored near the bottom while parabens were more stable. A meal, a receipt handled, or a product used that morning can move your numbers.

Detection also does not equal disease. Large biomonitoring programs find these chemicals in nearly everyone, and for most markers there is no validated cutoff that separates safe from harmful. A positive result means exposure occurred, nothing more. The reverse matters too: for long-lasting forever chemicals like PFOS and PFOA, blood is the validated matrix and urine often misses them, so a low urinary PFAS result does not rule out a meaningful body burden.

What to Do with Your Results

Start with the source. If a class reads high, look at the likely origin from the pattern table and change it: swap fragranced personal care products, filter drinking water, reduce canned and packaged foods, or review workplace exposures. Then retest in about 8 to 12 weeks to see whether the change moved your numbers, since serial tracking is far more informative than a single reading for these fast-clearing chemicals.

For an elevated metal, confirm it in blood before acting, and avoid chelation-provoked urine testing: in a prospective toxicology cohort it predicted true heavy metal poisoning only 4.3% of the time, and several medical societies advise against it. Because this panel is an exposure screen rather than a diagnostic test, share meaningful results with a clinician, ideally one familiar with environmental medicine, especially if you are pregnant, planning pregnancy, or have kidney or thyroid concerns.

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References

12 studies
  1. Failure of Chelator-provoked Urine Testing Results to Predict Heavy Metal Toxicity in a Prospective Cohort of Patients Referred for Medical Toxicology Evaluation
    S. Weiss, S. Campleman, P. Wax, William Mcgill, J. BrentClinical Toxicology2021
  2. Characterizing Chemical Exposure Trends From NHANES Urinary Biomonitoring Data
    Zachary Stanfield, R. W. Setzer, Victoria Hull, Risa R. Sayre, Kristin K. Isaacs, J. WambaughEnvironmental Health Perspectives2024
  3. Harmonized Human Biomonitoring in European Children, Teenagers and Adults: Eu-wide Exposure Data of 11 Chemical Substance Groups From the HBM4EU Aligned Studies (2014-2021)
    E. Govarts, L. Gilles, L. Rodriguez Martin, T. SantonenInternational Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health2023
  4. Associations Between Prenatal Urinary Biomarkers of Phthalate Exposure and Preterm Birth: A Pooled Study of 16 US Cohorts
    B. Welch, a. Keil, J. Buckley, a. CalafatJAMA Pediatrics2022
  5. Association of Urinary or Blood Heavy Metals and Mortality From All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer in the General Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies
    Xianwei Guo, W. Su, Ning Li, Qiu-ling SongEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research2022