Guest guest Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Hi All, Could use your help as I'm not terribly knowledgeable about this. I just got my vitamin D test results. Only 42 on the D3 and <4 on the D2. I think someone on the list said D3 should be betwen 50 and 55. I assume D3 is what we get from CLO and that I need to increase my dosage? Is the low D2 result significant? Your help will be greatly appreciated as I know vitamin D is so important to health. Laree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Tom, > My dad recently had a vitamin D test done but they tested a different > metabolite for some reason. I was under the impression that > 25-hydroxy-vitamin D was the best test, but they tested the dihydroxy > form (1,25) so the result was completely different. It isn't the best test; it's the only test for nutritional vitami D status. > My dad's result > was 130 pg/mL. Is this test a good measure of total body vitamin D > status, and if so, do you know if that's a good number? My dad's > doctor said it was high. I wasn't able to find any reference ranges > for 1,25-dihydroxy with a quick web search. TIA for any info. It's high as far as I know but I don't remember the exact reference range, which should be listed right on the printout of the test. However, this has nothing whatsoever to do with his nutritional vitamin D status. Hopefully that's not what his doctor was trying to test. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 > It isn't the best test; it's the only test for nutritional vitami D status. > > It's high as far as I know but I don't remember the exact reference > range, which should be listed right on the printout of the test. > However, this has nothing whatsoever to do with his nutritional > vitamin D status. Hopefully that's not what his doctor was trying to > test. Thanks, that's what I suspected. His doctor was trying to test vitamin D status so chalk it up to another doc who doesn't know much about nutrition or at least proper lab tests! Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Tom, > Thanks, that's what I suspected. His doctor was trying to test vitamin > D status so chalk it up to another doc who doesn't know much about > nutrition or at least proper lab tests! Honestly I would say get a different doctor. I don't see any excuse for anyone in any field not to know this. It is so overwhelmingly well-known that even the government considers it completely straightforward. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 On 6/17/08, Masterjohn <chrismasterjohn@...> wrote: > Tom, > >> Thanks, that's what I suspected. His doctor was trying to test vitamin >> D status so chalk it up to another doc who doesn't know much about >> nutrition or at least proper lab tests! > > Honestly I would say get a different doctor. I don't see any excuse > for anyone in any field not to know this. Well, I mean any relevant field. Obviously not a physics professor or something, but the lab technicians, the doctors, the researchers, the policy makers, etc, anyone who has the potential to have anything to do with testing vitamin D should know this. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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