Minerals
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Where deficiency and dysregulation actually show up, and where a normal blood panel can miss it entirely.
Intracellular testing · South Jordan, Utah
Your labs came back normal.You still feel depleted.
Blood is a transportation system, not a destination. It holds mineral levels steady by design, which is why a standard panel can read normal while the cells that actually use those minerals run short. The OligoScan measures 44 minerals, vitamins, and heavy metals where they're used: inside the tissue.
Non-invasive · No blood draw · Results the same visit
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Mg
Cu
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Zn
Se
Al
44 elements measured
1 non-invasive scan
0 needles
Results in under a minute
What the scan reads
Three groups. Forty-four elements. One palm.
The scan uses spectrophotometry, measuring how much light your tissue absorbs and reflects at specific wavelengths, to read what has accumulated inside the cells rather than what happens to be in circulation.
Vitamins
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Read alongside the minerals they depend on, because no nutrient works in isolation.
Heavy metals
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The burden that competes with the minerals you need, and the reason supplementing alone sometimes goes nowhere.
The VIGEO Method
Observe. Measure. Understand. Act. Then measure again.
The same six steps for every client, every protocol. The last one is the one most people skip.
Observe
Listen to the body's signals and the story that comes with them.
Measure
Gather objective data with the OligoScan and supporting labs.
Interpret
Read the data through the lens of human physiology, not a reference chart.
Identify relationships
Connect minerals to heavy metals to symptoms. Nothing moves alone.
Support physiology
Supply what the body is actually short of, in the order it can use it.
Measure again
Verify it worked. Adjust what didn't. This is how guessing ends.
Where to start
Three reasons people book a scan.
For athletes
Training hard, racing flat
You're doing the work and the results aren't showing up. Cramping that electrolytes don't fix, excessive soreness after workouts or races, recovery that takes too long, a plateau with no obvious cause.
See athlete testing For active adultsSymptoms without a diagnosis
Fatigue, brain fog, chronic pain, poor sleep, and a stack of normal test results that explain none of it.
See what testing shows For practitionersAdding data to your practice
Coaches, physical therapists, and sports chiropractors referring clients for objective mineral and heavy-metal data.
Referrals & education
Your practitioner
Dawn Westrum, nutritionist and founder of VIGEO Health.
Dawn helps people make sense of mineral, vitamin, and heavy-metal data in the context of the life they are actually living: training, food, sleep, stress, symptoms, and goals.
OligoScan practitionerSports nutritionSouth Jordan, Utah
“The result is not the answer. It is the beginning of a better question.”
Read Dawn's full storyQuestions Dawn answers
Straight answers, before you book anything.
Every question below has its own page with a direct answer at the top and the physiology underneath it.
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Browse all 65 questions From the library
Evidence, context, and the questions that lead to both.
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September 20, 2026Read everything in the libraryStart with a better question
Test, don't guess your mineral and toxin load.
The right conversation starts with the real pattern, not the loudest symptom.