Why Did ND Add Vegetable Oil to the Vitamin D3 + K2?

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 33 pts

We didn't add it. It's part of the vitamin D3 oil. It's how vitamin D3 oil is made. Lanolin is combined with vegetable oil and emulsified. When you get vitamin D3 in oil form in bottles or softgels, it is always mixed wi

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 16 pts

We switched to a beta-clycodextrin microencapsulated vitamin D, for improved bioavailability. When we did that, our new supplier gave us a more comprehensive production flow chart that showed vegetable oil was used in th

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 13 pts

Ironically, that doesn't mean it doesn't contain vegetable oil. That just means that brand used coconut oil as their carrier oil when making the softgels. The vitamin D oil itself likely still used vegetable oil in the p

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 8 pts

We were going to release vitamin D oil in dropper bottles, but the raw material failed testing. We are trying to figure out a game plan for that now.

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 6 pts

Understood. Ours are tablets, though; so zero carrier oils added on our side. It's only the native oil used in the emulsification of the raw vitamin D oil itself.

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 5 pts

The economies of scale don't work for the cost. To do small runs of individual formulations on a per-customer basis would increase the cost higher than consumers would bear.

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 5 pts

Yeah, it's beta-cyclodextrin microencapsuled vitamin D. We also made them scored, so you can adjust dosing by breaking them in half. We wanted to do it a bit differently than the standard vitamin D oil in softgels. It's

Comment · Fri, May 31, 2024 · 7 pts

There's a lot of money in keeping people just sick enough to keep buying treatments for symptoms, rather than fixing the causes.

Comment · Fri, June 7, 2024 · 4 pts

Yes, we have been working on a comprehensive vitamin D stack that will contain both MK-4 and MK-7!