I had to laugh when I read this. American doctors go mostly, or solely, on that 'bloodwork'. In all the 40 years I lived in Belgium blood testing was done twice before a surgery (and it had probably little to do with these test tube measures). But here, you go for a broken nail, you need blood work! And I hate syringes and almost faint seeing blood, so you can imagine how I work very hard at home so as not to have to go to a doctor!
As proof of your discourse I mention here how both I myself and a friend, avid out-doors people, both tested as vitD deficient. I bought a bottle and read the ingredients, took a few and decided to throw the chemical in the garbage. Later on I read some articles on how vitD is made and what it really is, and regretted even trying a couple.
Now I mostly go for capsuled herbs or tinctures or low dose homeopathic tablets (from which I know where they dirived from) made by a trusted herbalist. Both help not only me but also for my animals.
Recommendation: run the same three categories against a manufacturer package insert, not only the bench recipe. The insert is the company speaking. It usually describes category one in operational language and then disclaims two and three in the limitations. That is Grant’s parse in the vendor’s own type.
Questions: (1) When the “gold standard” for a new test is another lab behavior — antigen scored against PCR, PCR scored against a prior PCR — is that category two citing category one, or has the circle already closed? (2) Band-counting (HIV Western blot, Lyme MMWR) looks like category three written as a committee rule: a vote on bands, not an entity in the blood. Have you or Grant put that next to the B12/TSH cases?
This is a jaw-dropping report.
Your writing is always so clear!
Thank you.
I had to laugh when I read this. American doctors go mostly, or solely, on that 'bloodwork'. In all the 40 years I lived in Belgium blood testing was done twice before a surgery (and it had probably little to do with these test tube measures). But here, you go for a broken nail, you need blood work! And I hate syringes and almost faint seeing blood, so you can imagine how I work very hard at home so as not to have to go to a doctor!
As proof of your discourse I mention here how both I myself and a friend, avid out-doors people, both tested as vitD deficient. I bought a bottle and read the ingredients, took a few and decided to throw the chemical in the garbage. Later on I read some articles on how vitD is made and what it really is, and regretted even trying a couple.
Now I mostly go for capsuled herbs or tinctures or low dose homeopathic tablets (from which I know where they dirived from) made by a trusted herbalist. Both help not only me but also for my animals.
Like a roulette wheel, It's a numbers game!
Keep the good work up!
Nicely done.
One recommendation, and two questions.
Recommendation: run the same three categories against a manufacturer package insert, not only the bench recipe. The insert is the company speaking. It usually describes category one in operational language and then disclaims two and three in the limitations. That is Grant’s parse in the vendor’s own type.
Questions: (1) When the “gold standard” for a new test is another lab behavior — antigen scored against PCR, PCR scored against a prior PCR — is that category two citing category one, or has the circle already closed? (2) Band-counting (HIV Western blot, Lyme MMWR) looks like category three written as a committee rule: a vote on bands, not an entity in the blood. Have you or Grant put that next to the B12/TSH cases?