Bone Support Strips - 2000 IU Vitamin D3 & 120mcg Vitamin K2 Per Serving - 30 Servings, Raspberry, Gluten Free

Bone is the change nobody warns you about, because it makes no noise at all until it does.

Here is the part that matters. You reached your peak bone mass in your twenties, and from then on it is maintenance. But the loss is not spread evenly across the rest of your life. It concentrates: across late perimenopause and the first years after, women can lose a substantial share of their bone density, and after that it settles to a much slower annual rate. Oestrogen is what was holding that in check, and as it falls the balance tips.

Two nutrients, and what each one does about it:

• Vitamin D3, 2000 IU – two and a half times a full day's amount. It promotes calcium absorption in the gut and is needed for bone growth and remodelling. Around one in four adults sits below adequate vitamin D status, and you would have no way of knowing which group you are in without a test
• Vitamin K2, 120 mcg – a full day's amount. Your body uses vitamin K to activate osteocalcin, the protein involved in placing calcium into bone. Absorbing a mineral and putting it where you want it are two separate jobs

There is no calcium in this tin, and that is deliberate. Most women are already eating calcium. What decides whether it gets used is the two things above it.

VERA Bone Support Strips is one raspberry strip a day, up to a maximum of one. What you get for that:

• The absorption step and the placement step, both covered daily
• Both amounts printed, so you can compare this against anything else
• Something started in the decade it counts rather than the one after

🩸 Ask for a blood test, not a feeling

This is the most useful thing on the page. Vitamin D status is measurable and the test is cheap and routine. Nobody feels their level change. Plenty of women get to watch it move on a printout, and that is a far better answer than wondering.

🧈 Take it with something that has fat in it

Both vitamins here are fat-soluble, so a strip taken around a meal with some fat in it does better than one taken on an empty stomach mid-morning. It is a small habit and it is the one that decides how much of this you actually absorb.

🦴 Bone answers in years, not weeks

The bone density studies in this area ran for three years, because that is the timescale bone works on. Nothing here is designed to be noticed in a month. This is one of the few things you take where the honest horizon is the next decade.

🍓 Raspberry, and gone in seconds

Sweetened with erythritol and steviol glycosides rather than sugar. On something you are meant to take every day for years, whether it is pleasant is not a detail. It is most of whether you are still doing it in March.

This is a category with some confident claims in it, so here is exactly where this tin sits.

• On the K2, plainly – the label states 120 mcg of vitamin K2 as menaquinone but does not say which form of menaquinone. There is more than one and they behave differently. The three-year bone study most often cited in this category used 180 mcg of the MK-7 form, which is half again what is here and a form we cannot confirm. So you will find no reference to that study's results on this page. We have asked the supplier for the form. That is the whole caveat, said once, here
• There is no calcium in it – and that is a design choice rather than an omission. This is the pair that decides what happens to the calcium you already eat. If you have been told you need a calcium supplement specifically, this is not that product
• It does not reduce fracture risk – the two largest vitamin D trials tested that directly and did not find it. This is a nutrient status product, and anyone on this shelf selling you the other thing is ahead of the evidence
• Vitamin K and warfarin do not mix – if you take warfarin or a similar anticoagulant, do not start this without speaking to whoever manages your dose. Vitamin K intake has to stay steady for those medications to work predictably
• The strip is not absorbed faster – this format advertises speed claims across the category and there is no published evidence for them with these vitamins. It is easier to take, which is a real advantage. It is not a stronger one

What is left is two nutrients at printed amounts, in the decade they matter most, on something you will still be taking in a year.

This was made for women somewhere in the middle of the change who would rather be early about their bones than informed about them later.

It's especially for you if:

• You have started thinking about your bones and nobody has raised it with you yet
• You have never had your vitamin D checked, or you had it checked once years ago
• You have looked at a 5000 IU bottle and wondered whether that was actually a good thing
• You already take two or three things in the morning and would rather not add a fourth glass of water
• You want to read the amounts before you buy rather than after

Two nutrients with both amounts printed, 30 strips to a tin, one a day. Gluten free, corn free, hormone free, antibiotic free, all natural and no fillers. Made in India.

It is not for you if you take warfarin or another vitamin K antagonist, if you are pregnant or nursing, if you are under 18, or if you have been advised to take a calcium supplement specifically.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If VERA isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.