Vitamin D - Miracle Nutrient - and it’s FREE!
Hi Folks
Dr John Cannell and the Vitamin D Council in my opinion is the gold standard resource of the Vit D universe.
25(OH)D testing is an essential test that should be done several times a year as Vit D is involved with so many biological processes and most of us are Vit D deficient!
We all know the problems of not only getting the25(OH)D test from our Doctor but also the addition hassle , cost and all too frequently unnecessary hostility from the practitioner or clinic.
More unsettling is the pervasive ignorance of the dangers of low Vit D levels and the resulting unnecessary threats to your health and how simple and inexpensive can this be resolved with testing and non prescription OTC Vit D supplements
Great News
ZRT labs and Dr Cannell are making a reliable and valid 25(OH)D test affordable and convenient along with current and evidence based information on Vitamin D!
Good on them!
- AisMaxAdmin
PS
Good resources at the end of the report.
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 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.shtml
Executive summary: keep your family’s 25-hydroxy-vitamin D blood test above 50 ng/ml, year around.
My opinion is 50ng/ml or 125nm/L is the floor and 100ng/ml or 250 nm/L is the safe upper limit for most of us -aismaxadmin
Dosage
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.
AIS Max has 2000iu of VitD3 along with efficacy enhancing Bioperine -aismaxadmin
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
John Cannell, MD
vitamindcouncil.org
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