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If i want to find out which vitamin and minerals i have a deficiency or taking to much how would i go about doing that, is there a blood test of sorts?

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Yes: There are symptoms specific for certain deficiencies, and accordingly you can do targeted blood levels of the suspected deficiency.

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Answered 7/7/2013

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Vitamin deficiency: Constellation of symptoms of a specific vitamin deficiency or excess, lead to doing blood work to ckeck levels of those vitamins. Your doctor can review those with you in details.

Answered 3/2/2016

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