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Can anyone recommend any UK companies who are good for blood tests (vitamins, etc) gut health tests, etc?

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You should check out a local private hospital and ask if they carry out the tests you want.

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Blue Horizon and Medichecks may do them

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ILowe

There are two kinds:1/ Requiring venous blood. For that there are various places and a lot depends on what there is locally available. I see for my city that prices vary a lot.

2/ Fingerprick tests you can do at home. These vary widely in price.

Now, for Vitamin D, I have just had good experience with vitamindtest.org.uk which has a good fingerprick test for 29 pounds [good discount for 10]. You have to send the result to the lab, and they provide the result as an actual number just like with the doctor. Once I had the result back from the lab I went to this American site for suggested dosage grassrootshealth.net/projec...

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