[ConservativeMind]

This is not an expensive test, and you can order it online, yourself, from places like Direct Labs or Quest Diagnostics, directly.

[ConservativeMind]

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[ckilmer]

I follow a number of health and longevity channels including dr ford brewer’s PrevMed Health Channel.

He has a very good testing program for cardiovascular health. But its expensive and it has not been approved by medicare.

Nevertheless, some months ago they expected to get medicare approval. So they put out a waiting list for people who would like to participate in his program if they can get medicare approval.

Brewer’s program just got medicare approval. So I sent them my details.

I asked if I could bring others to join the program. I was told yes but they would have to go on the waiting list.

I think you can go to the prevmed site to do that.

I’m enthused by this as its an additional perk of my medicare and supplemental insurance.

[systemjim]

I fail to understand why doctors are so ambivalent toward Vitamin D. For years I went for the “annual exam” and they *never* tested for vitamin D deficiency. Once I began researching the subject and became convinced that I needed extra D3, I almost had to force the doctor to test for D *each* time I went for a blood test.

The evidence is overwhelming that a large majority of people are deficient (and even dangerously deficient) in this very important nutrient. We are a society that works indoors (for the most part). We are a society that is deathly fearful of getting cancer from the sun. We are a society that eats a great deal of the wrong kinds of food. We are a society of parents who keep their children indoors, and now have a couple of generations who spend more time on “devices” than in the sun. We are an aging society.

All of these factors, and more, point to a very large number of D deficient people. Viamin D deficiency eventually leads to a sick person. Vitamin D is SO important to your health (and your children’s) in SO many areas that you are greatly harming yourself (and them) if you don’t do something about it NOW!

(From someone who knows).

[Signalman]

20ng/ml is considered below the minimum blood vitamin D level from everything I’ve read.

The optimal level is at or above 30ng/ml up to 80ng/ml. I had mine tested a few months ago and it was 51ng/ml