{"id":102,"date":"2015-04-22T19:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/?p=102"},"modified":"2015-06-04T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:32:08","slug":"huge-milestone-for-us-independent-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/2015\/04\/22\/huge-milestone-for-us-independent-thinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge milestone for us &#8220;independent thinkers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who like to be the captains of our own healing ships, just experienced a profound victory! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-04-20\/the-doctor-is-out-labcorp-to-let-consumers-order-own-tests\">Labcorp will now allow patients &#8211; with no doctor prescription &#8211; to order their own bloodwork<\/a>. Of course, I officially still recommend that you have a doctor overseeing your treatment progress.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, this kind of thing has been available from Life Extension Foundation, but it required paying for a membership to their site.<\/p>\n<p>A step in the right direction here. More on the topic of piloting your own healing ship, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lymebook.com\/ffl-preface.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: If LabCorp doesn&#8217;t offer this kind of blood testing &#8211; and there are rumors that they may not &#8211; then I do know that Life Extension Foundation DOES offer them without a doctor&#8217;s prescription. See:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeextension.com\/Vitamins-Supplements\/Blood-Tests\/Blood-Tests\">http:\/\/www.lifeextension.com\/Vitamins-Supplements\/Blood-Tests\/Blood-Tests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who like to be the captains of our own healing ships, just experienced a profound victory! Labcorp will now allow patients &#8211; with no doctor prescription &#8211; to order their own bloodwork. Of course, I officially still recommend that you have a doctor overseeing your treatment progress. In the past, this kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-from-around-the-web","7":"tag-tips-tricks"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}