RE: Home Test for Vit D

[Guest guest]

Dr. McCandless,

This is great news. One less blood draw is always a good thing and this is

an important test. Thank you and I wish all the best in 2009. L

From: csb-autism-rx [mailto:csb-autism-rx ]

On Behalf Of JAQUELYN MCCANDLESS

Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 7:43 PM

To: csb-autism-rx ; LDN_HIVAIDS ;

Autism_LDN

Subject: Home Test for Vit D

Dear Family, Clients, and Friends: Good news! I'm passing on information

about an inexpensive home test for Vit D! Please read and help your health!

Wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year!! Jaquelyn McCandless MD

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.

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/deficiency/am-i-vitamin-d-deficient.sh

tml

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-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.com/altmedrev/.fulltext/13/1/6.pdf

Seasons Greetings

Cannell, MD

vitamindcouncil.org