What are we using your samples for?

The samples you provide help us learn more about how to help keep kids healthy.

Your contribution is really important, and we’re so grateful for your help!

Saliva

• Genetics: Provides information on trails that you inherited from your parents that effect how you grow and how your body responds to the environment and your overall health.

Urine

• Hormones your bodies produce related to your stress levels, growth and development

• Health markers that look at, for examples, if you have high sugar levels that can suggest diabetes

• Contains things that you encounter everyday such as:

  • Chemicals found in your good packaging and personal care products

  • Nutrients from the things that you eat and drink

  • Metabolites from any medication you take

Teeth

• Metal exposure (found in indoor items such as lead paint or outdoor items such as water, soil and air)

• Nutrient markers from your diet such as calcium, and vitamin D

Hair

• Metal exposure (indoor and outdoor, just like with your teeth)

• Hormones your bodies produce, just like urine

Blood

• Genetics, just like with your saliva

• Nutrients about the foods you at and how your body processes them

• Metabolism such as how your body makes energy from the good you eat and how your body is functioning

• Immune system how your bodies are responding to things in your environment such as allergens and viruses

Amazing things are being done with the samples you provide, thank you!