Vitamin D2 vs Vitamin D3: What You Would Benefit From Knowing

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10almonds tip: when a pop-science source cites a hard-science source, click through to check up the source really says what they say it does! Not only will some outlets just brazenly lie, but also, sometimes rushed writers (not this one, though 😉) will cite things without reading them, which can sometimes result in a “Paris Hilton problem”.
That means: if you search for “Paris Hilton”, Google wonders: do you mean the celebrity, or the Hilton hotel in Paris?
So it happens in science too; a super-common example is that a thing might be claimed to reduce stress, and while it’s technically true, it actually reduces oxidative stress at a cellular level… Which is great, but will do nothing whatsoever to bring you calm!

In today’s email we cover vitamin D2 vs D3, how someone dies of dementia, and interpreting blood test results.

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How Does Someone Die From Dementia?

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Common Sense Labs: Blood Labs Demystified – by Dr. Ken Berry & Kim Howerton

Most people, if given their test results as a set of numbers, will have no idea what they mean.

And a doctor or nurse saying “this is good”, “this is a bit low”, “this is very high” etc isn’t that much more informative, as it doesn’t really give a true feel for the information.

Dr. Berry produced this book to bridge that knowledge gap, and in his words, “put the power of health back in the hands of the people”. The book also covers what blood tests to recommend annually (finding common recommendations insufficient), and how to go about asking for those if your doctor might be keen to brush you off.

This is a short book (weighing in at a lithe 78 pages), but the information contained therein is very dense, and very convenient to have it all in one place.

As one Amazon reviewer wrote,

Writer’s anecdote: indeed, I recently had 14 blood tests done as part of a regular checkup (I’m pleased to report I could not be in better health), and while interpreting the results, I had to look up a lot of things (which were often in the wrong units*), and if I’d had this book already, it would have been a breeze, as it covers everything I had done!

*On which note, this book does provide results in US and International units, so you won’t be left wondering how to convert mmol/mol into mmol/L or mg/dL or such.

Bottom line: if you are a person who has blood, this book will at some point be of immense value to you, if not immediately!

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