Self Directed Health Resources
Self directed health and healing resources.
Buy your own blood tests online. There are several options for buying blood tests online. You purchase the requisition online with your credit card and the organization sends you your requisition which you take to a lab for your blood draw. The Life Extension Foundation offers this service in co-operation with Labcorp, a company which is often located in major hospitals. Labcorp draws your blood and runs the tests. Your results are sent to you in the mail. The prices are significantly cheaper than going to a doctor’s office. Lef.org has consistently had a May sale on blood testing which makes it even cheaper to do self directed testing. The requisitions have been up to date for 6 months so a 6 month supply can be purchased in May. Members get a discounted price on tests which increases the savings. Members can purchase tests for family members. If a large number of requisitions are being purchases then it is best to make arrangements for faxing a detailed and well organized listing to them. If you have a complicated order then I recommend purchasing your tests earlier in the month of May (the annual sale month). This link will take you to the www.lef.org page for purchasing blood tests.
Saliva Testing
Self purchased saliva testing is available from Dr. Zava’s lab at http://www.salivatest.com/ There are other labs which I’ll list later. Some of them only work with licensed medical professionals.
Hormones
Dr. Vliet’s website http://www.herplace.com/ Her books are well researched and well documented; a must for anyone’s health/hormone library. I have chosen options different from some of her recommendations and I also believe she is a fantastic advocate for health and good fact finding. Dr. Vliet is not frightened of estrogen which aligns her with academic medicine. Dr. Vliet on What Every Woman Needs to Know About Hormones Dr Vliet’s acceptance remarks for the 2007 Voice of Women Award. Must watch! This link opens in a new window.Do your own research
http://emas.obgyn.net/ European Menopause and Andropause Society
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ only abstracts, but it is a start!
http://breastcanceralternatives.org Our principal mission is to provide documented research on conventional approaches to breast cancer and objectively evaluate the limitations ofthe standard treatment route. After examining the survival record of conventional treatments, patients can choose alternative therapies or proceed on the conventional route. Either way, they can begin a journey which starts with self-education
THE CHOLESTEROL MYTHS http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm Uffe Ravnskof MD PhD
Tubal ligation is not harmless http://www.tubal.org/