- Bone density: Promotes strong bones & teeth by facilitating calcium transport
- Immune function: Supports optimal immune system response & defense mechanisms
- Cognitive health: Helps maintain brain function & mental clarity
- Heart support: Encourages cardiovascular health & balanced blood pressure levels
- 3000 IU dosage: 75 mcg vitamin D3 as cholecalciferol per softgel
- Year-round support: Maintains adequate vitamin D levels
Vitamin D3 can help sustain adequate vitamin D levels throughout the year, which can be difficult for your body to produce, especially during the winter. Made in EU.
Health benefits overview:
Vitamin D3 can help sustain adequate vitamin D levels throughout the year, which can be difficult for your body to produce, especially during the winter. A supplement of vitamin D3 can promote healthy bone density, improve cognitive health, encourage healthy cell differentiation, and support immune function for better overall health.
Are you getting enough of this essential "sunshine vitamin" year-round? This formula delivers optimal support for multiple body systems.
Why this formula works:
Vitamin D3 can be synthesized by humans in the skin upon exposure to ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation from sunlight. Because of weather conditions during the winter season and sunblock use, your body's ability to produce vitamin D levels within the normal range may be inhibited.
Here's why you should be making sure you get enough of this essential vitamin every day.
Cognitive health: Vitamin D is important for maintaining cognitive health and function as you age. Healthy serum vitamin D levels have been shown to correspond with better scores on cognitive health tests and better maintenance of cognitive ability in aging individuals.
Bone and immune health: Vitamin D (along with vitamin K and essential minerals) is vital for facilitating the transport of calcium into the bone matrix. This is an important step in maintaining strong, healthy bones and teeth. Vitamin D also plays a critical role in optimal immune function.
Heart health and blood pressure support: Vitamin D helps to regulate your body's calcium balance while facilitating calcium absorption into the bloodstream. It promotes a balanced inflammatory response in the cardiovascular system and encourages healthy endothelial function. Vitamin D may also help maintain balanced renin levels, which help support blood pressure already within the normal range.
Backed by science:
Optimal vitamin D3 dosage for health support
This vitamin D3 supplement delivers 75 mcg (3000 IU) of vitamin D3 as cholecalciferol per softgel. Current levels of vitamin D are very low in humans.
Life Extension recommends that healthy adults supplement each day with at least 2,000 IU of vitamin D. Elderly adults may benefit from higher doses such as 5,000 IU daily up to 10,000 IU daily. For most people, a 1,000 IU potency is insufficient to attain optimal vitamin D blood levels.
It's suggested that you take a 25-hydroxy vitamin D blood test after 3 months to assess and adjust your dosage. Your optimal blood levels should be 50–80 ng/ml year-round.
Comprehensive health benefits throughout your body
Vitamin D affects nearly every cell in your body and is critical for optimal health. Nearly all your body's tissue types have receptors for activated vitamin D molecule, which is why some consider the "sunshine vitamin" to be the most important vitamin in the body.
Vitamin D enhances crucial calcium delivery by increasing the absorption of calcium through the intestinal walls. In fact, in the absence of vitamin D3, we only absorb 10–15% of calcium from the food we eat, but when vitamin D3 is present, the calcium absorption is increased to 30–40%.
Please note that vitamin D is contained in the multi-nutrient Life Extension Mix and the multivitamin Two-Per-Day.
How to take:
Please follow the dosage guidelines outlined in the Supplement facts or consult your healthcare practitioner for recommendations.
