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heya i don't mean the supplement regimen though.. i meant "tracking se mg and se zn" as in do you have blood work results? since you found the zinc stopped working, it would be interesting to see how high your levels got, and whether anything else (eg perhaps copper) was adversely affected as zinc levels rose. i'll check your regimen link in case you do in fact have bloodwork results posted there.

Sorry, nothing recent.
Wish there were fee-for-service options. Not easy to get MDs to order test for your 'zinc' level.

PN

yea i hear ya. oh, canada.

one option could be to pay for time with an ND. in ontario, an ND can write a test req, but the province won't cover the visit or the ND-ordered bloodwork. in that circumstance, i just paid for the time and the lab work, while having to resist the fairly strong pressure from the ND to buy her products and ongoing services.
http://www.cand.ca/Find_an_ND.findnd.0.html

another option might be to ask the doc for a referral to a nutrition specialist that might be more inclined to write you a nutritional bloodwork requisition. if you let it be known that you'll be getting that test one way or another, the doc might just write you the requisition, or at a minimum give you the referral.

you could also show the doc some related research to help back up your request:
Nutrition in primary care: Current practices, attitudes, and barriers
http://www.cfp.ca/content/56/3/e109.full.pdf
"Findings from this study suggest that physicians recognize the importance of dietary intervention and demonstrate a willingness to provide nutrition counseling. However, inadequate training, time, and compensation; insufficient use of dietitian services; and a lack of evidence-based interventions remain obstacles in the primary care setting.
Initiatives to reduce barriers to preventive counseling and further research around nutrition-related interventions in the primary care setting are needed to mitigate the ever growing burden of preventable chronic diseases."

A must read

http://www.nature.com/aps/journal/v34/n ... 3160a.html