Re: In-home Vitamin D testing

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the info! It's a week too late for me though. I had all

three of us tested at LabCorp for Vitamin D 25-Hydroxy and Vitamin D

1,25 Dihydroxy.

I got back a preliminary for the 25-Hydroxy. Husband and self very low

(25 and 20) and my son is 33, which is just over the lowest end of

reference range. This is after a major effort to get him sun exposed

since school started - I even had him doing his homework in the

backyard with his shirt off before it got too cold. It's obviously not

enough for any of us, so we need to boost up a fair bit.

So we are now all on ProThera Vitamin D3(cholecalciferol) and I'm

considering getting UV lamps. The mercola panels seem great, but very

expensive - especially after the huge valkion purchase. I'm looking

into full spectrum reptile and greenhouse lighting this week. I

actually have the fixtures already (used to have an iguana and a tiny

little greenhouse) so I'd just need to find the right bulbs that will fit.

Has anyone else gone the lamp route and had a good improvement in D

levels?

>

>

> The Vitamin D Newsletter

> December 28, 2008

>

> The Vitamin D Council is happy to announce that we have partnered

with ZRT

> Laboratory to provide an inexpensive, $65.00, in-home, accurate,

vitamin D

> [25(OH)D] test. The usual cost for this test is between $100.00 and

$200.00.

>

> (IF ANY OF YOU CURRENTLY HAVE ON HAND A KIT AND ORDER FOR VIT D

FROM ME AND

> HAVEN'T HAD YOUR BLOOD DRAWN YET, PLEASE DISCARD THAT ORDER AND

SAVE YOURSELF

> SOME $ AND A MAYBE A TRIP TO THE LAB, IF THAT WAS ALL YOU WERE

GOING FOR

> (I'VE BEEN ORDERING THEM A LOT LATELY).

>

> If you read this newsletter, you know about our interest in

accurate vitamin

> D testing. In the next few weeks, you may read about the Vitamin D

Council's

> quest for accurate vitamin D blood tests in the national media.

Before we

> partnered with ZRT, we verified, repeatedly, that ZRT provides

accurate and

> reliable vitamin D tests and that their method corresponds very

well to the gold

> standard of vitamin D blood tests, the DiaSorin RIA.

>

> Our ZRT service is not just inexpensive, it means no more worrying

about

> your doctor ordering the right test or interpreting it correctly.

You buy the

> test kit on the internet or by phone, a few days later the kit comes

in the

> mail, you or a nurse friend do a finger stick, collect a few drops

of blood, and

> send the blotter paper back to ZRT in the postage paid envelope

provided with

> the kit. A week later you get results back in the mail and know

accurate

> 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels of you and your family.

>

> For every test you order, ZRT will donate $10.00 to the Vitamin D

Council.

> Please read the new page hyperlinked below on our website as it

both explains

> the procedure and how to order the test.

>

>

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> p:_

>

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)

>

> Executive summary: keep your family's 25-hydroxy-vitamin D blood

test above

> 50 ng/ml, year around. Most adults need at least 5,000 IU per day,

especially

> this time of year. Most children need at least 1,000 IU per day per

every 25

> pounds of body weight. Bio Tech Pharmacal provides high quality and

> inexpensive vitamin D. Currently Bio Tech Pharmacal is providing

vitamin D for

> numerous scientific studies. To see their prices and for ordering,

click the

> hyperlink below.

>

> _http://www.bio-http://www.http://www.bhttp://wwhttp_

> (http://www.bio-tech-pharm.com/catalog.aspx?cat_id=2)

>

> As a gift to our readers for the New Year, Thorne publications have

provided

> a free download to a basic paper about vitamin D. I wrote it earlier

this

> year for educated lay people as well as health care practitioners.

Please read

> this paper carefully, your family's well-being, even lives, may

depend on you

> understanding it.

>

> _http://www.thorne.http://www.thohttp://wwwhttp://www_

> (http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/.fulltext/13/1/6.pdf)

>

> Seasons Greetings

> Cannell, MD

> vitamindcouncil.vit

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