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Nancy LC
Tue, Apr-01-08, 11:23
Does anyone have a good source for getting a vitamin D3 test outside of doctor office? I know LEF has one, but I don't really want to pay $75 for a membership.

Thanks for any references you might have!
bike2work
Mon, Apr-07-08, 02:06
I was on that Biohealth (the naturopathic place near you in SD) Website a couple days ago and filled out their form for a referral. They sent me several names here and they also sent the names and contact info for four online/phone consultation doctors. Interested in the online/phone doctors?

Wild Oats grocery used to offer blood tests; I wonder if Whole Foods does.
Hutchinson
Mon, Apr-07-08, 03:31
Does anyone have a good source for getting a vitamin D3 test outside of doctor office? I know LEF has one, but I don't really want to pay $75 for a membership. Direct labs (http://www.directlabs.com/VitaminD.php)

Uk Readers may like to know The Doctor's Laboratory (http://www.tdlpathology.com/) will do one for £40 if your GP won't do one on the NHS.

While having a 25(OH)D done will (as it is usually a salutory experience) encourage people to take effective amounts it really isn't necessary.
The safety margin between having a NATURAL level of Vitamin D and the level at which adverse events have been recorded is so immense that even with 10,000iu/daily there is no possibility that you could get anywhere near the danger level even with sun exposure. (http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/85/1/6)
I live at latitude 52 I take 5000iu/daily + I get regular sun exposure whenever possible. My level at the end of summer was 147.5nmol/l or 49ng/ml. only a third of the 350nmol/l 140ng/ml at which adverse events have been found to occur.