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Updated: Jul 14, 2022

What is the Vitamin D Test?

The Vitamin D Test is another at-home, dried blood spot test in the Zinzino scientific and individualized test portfolio. It allows you to monitor your levels of the ‘sunshine nutrient’ throughout the year and determine whether you need nutritional support to improve your vital vitamin D levels.

Your personal vitamin D status is constantly changing, along with lifestyle and seasonal variations. Test your levels every four months, especially if you live in a colder area with long winters. The Vitamin D Test makes it easy to maintain your optimal levels.

What is being tested?

The vitamin D blood spot test captures the vitamin D levels in your body from food, supplements and skin synthesis, to determine if your levels are too high, just right or too low. While there are multiple ways to discover vitamin D levels, the most accurate method is a 25-hydroxyvitamin D test. It measures the 25(OH)D, also called calcidiol, in your blood. Vitamin D must go through several transformation processes before your body can use it and Calcidiol is the form that your body first converts vitamin D into when it gets to the liver.

Why do I need the test?

Worldwide, more than one billion people are estimated to have a vitamin D deficiency*. This nutrient contributes to a normal immune system, bones, joints, muscles and teeth. With up to 80% of our vitamin D absorption from the sun, it’s important to consider how much time you spend outdoors, as the sun is a natural source of vitamin D. Your lifestyle, age, clothing, sunscreen routine, skin type and even where you live may compromise your body’s ability to produce vitamin D from the sun.

During the winter months when our bodies are not able to make vitamin D from the sun, we need to rely on food or supplements to maintain our levels. Just like the fatty acid profile, our vitamin D needs are unique. Vitamin D testing makes it easy to monitor your status and adjust it naturally with the help of ZinoShine+ – a natural food supplement that combines vegan vitamin D3 in its most bioactive form from wild-harvested lichen, and broad-spectrum magnesium.



How to prepare for the Vitamin D Test?

There’s nothing specific you need to do in the lead-up for your at-home vitamin D test. You don’t need to fast. There are easy-to-follow instructions in the kit which walk you through the simple steps to complete your test in a few minutes. This includes taking a photo of your unique Test ID Code, washing your hands, stimulating blood flow with movement, and inserting the lancet in a fingertip. Fill the circles on the filter paper with blood and leave the sample card to dry for at least 10 minutes.

Read the full set of instructions before using the Vitamin D Test kit. For more information, visit zinzinotest.com.


Understanding your results

After 10-21 days, you will receive a text message that your confidential blood sample has been analyzed, and you can now log into your profile at zinzinotest.com for the results. Your readings will be displayed in an easy-to-understand format, with graphics, percentages, and color coding. Remember that the state of our health is not static and you need to re-take the test after 120 days, the time span for our red blood cells to regenerate, to stay on top of your current health status.

The test report includes personalized recommendations and guidelines on how to restore the essential Vitamin D balance in your body to empower your health journey, including specific dietary advice such as increasing intake of foods with Omega-3 and reducing Omega-6 fats. Use the food suggestions to guide your nutritional choices, alongside your daily intake of BalanceOil+.






* Source: an evidence-based clinical review published in The New England Journal of Medicine

* Reference: https://zinzino.blog/blood-tests-for-supplements/



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