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Old 11-20-2010, 10:13 AM
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Welcome to our PN forum, Chase.

I really don't like to get into other testing evaluation. That is a fairly complex medical thing, and you can look that up yourself, or ask your doctor for details. There are many sites with "normal" ranges.

The vitamin results however, are typically not evaluated by doctors according to the new research.

The B12 thread here has a link to a physician run educational website, by the AAFP, and it explains that levels below 400 need further evaluation and/or treatment.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread85103.html

The B12 information is almost a decade old in US, so one would hope doctors have learned the new criteria. The Vit D information is still pretty new within the past 2 yrs, and still doctors don't evaluate test results well, or prescribe the correct form of D = D3.
The website http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/
is pretty complete today, and explains the concept of not using D2 test results or D2 for treatment.

It is fortunate that both D3 and B12 are over the counter in US. That means a patient may accept responsibility for his/her own treatment for deficiencies with them. I give the latest up to date information that have studies behind them, so people can bypass doctors who seem clueless about these two nutrients still.
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