Comments on: LLVLC On YouTube (Episode 65): Yeah, So What’s The Big Deal About Your Vitamin D Levels Anyway?

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:40:13 +0000

We make vitamin D from cholesterol when we get enough sun exposure, specifically a certain type of UV ray (UVB I think? I’ll have to look it up again), so if this person’s getting D from dietary sources and not getting out in the sun, his cholesterol’s building up from not being converted.

If you talk to him again soon, have him get outside without sunscreen for thirty minutes or so, a few days a week, and see if that helps.

Now that said, I wouldn’t worry about blood cholesterol anyway. I’m given to understand that low cholesterol is actually associated with increased mortality risk, not decreased, and we need it for a lot of things in our bodies–our hearts are literally saturated with it, it’s a major component in our nervous systems, etc. LDL is the lipoprotein carrying cholesterol away from the liver; HDL is the lipoprotein carrying it back to the liver. That’s why the former came to be considered bad and the latter good–the idea, I guess, was that cholesterol was supposed to stay in the liver and not go anywhere else.

As long as he doesn’t have the small-particle LDL and gets out in the sun occasionally I’d bet he’ll be OK.

By: Ted Hutchinson

Ted Hutchinson — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:11:41 +0000

This is what it says on the ZRT site
California State residents:
California State health law does not allow the testing of specimens collected or mailed from California without a written order from a health care professional licensed to prescribe in California (M.D.; N.D.; D.C.; D.O.; N.P.; and L.Ac.). Therefore, we are unable to process Internet orders.

NY State residents:
New York State health law prohibits the testing of specimens collected in or mailed from New York and prohibits the transmission of data from our laboratory to NY physicians or residents. Therefore, we are unable to process Internet orders at this time.

So it looks like you will have to ask a friend/relative outside of California or New York State to order you a test kit and then go and visit them so the collection/mailing is not done in either California or NYstate.
You are sent an email notification to look online for the results so once you’ve signed up using an out of state mail address getting the notification sent to you home email is easy.
It’s a Health professionals protection racket to control the market.
For goodness sake think what would happen if people took control of their own health.
They may end up looking like Jimmy.

By: Jackie Eberstein

Jackie Eberstein — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:23:55 +0000

Hi again,

Sorry, but my computer is ahead of itself.
As I was saying above.New York State apparently prohibits home Vit D testing.

What is the reasoning for this, Jackie? I wonder how many other states also prohibit it. THANK YOU for sharing!

–Jimmy

By: Jackie Eberstein

Jackie Eberstein — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:35:18 +0000

Hi Jimmy,
FYI, I just tried to enroll with grassroots health. New York state prohibits reside

I hope you post the rest of your comments, Jackie. NY state doesn’t allow what?

–Jimmy