Drug Testing: Metabolites the Key
September 29th, 2006 by ddetox
There is little difference between a blood drug test, a urine drug test ora saliva drug test, which all look for very small concentrations ofcontaminates, called metabolites, used to determine which specific productshave been used.The body naturally stores metabolites in the fatty cells and fast-growingcells in your body.
Metabolites leach out into the blood over time and are expelled mostlythrough the urinary tract, but metabolites stay in the fat for differentperiods of time causing you to fail a drug test many weeks or months in thefuture.
Fat content, activity level and your metabolism all have a major impact onhow long chemicals can be detected in your system.
Hair is a fast growing tissue that stores metabolites. A hair follicle drugtest can detect metabolites for an extended period of time, as traceamounts of drug metabolites become entrapped in the core of the hair as itgrows out from the body.
Metabolite residues cannot be washed, bleached or flushed out of the hairfollicles and are stable over a long period of time. Hair fiber willproduce an accurate drug history for about 90-120 days, and it takesapproximately 5 days for drugs to show up in a person’s hair. Any hair canbe used for a hair follicle test.
Richard Johnson, Market-Day.net
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