Bone Support Strips - Vitamin D3 & K2 for Calcium Absorption - 2000 IU D3 Per Serving - 30 Servings, Raspberry

You want the calcium you do eat to end up somewhere useful, rather than simply to have been eaten.

The usual answer to bone is more calcium. That settles the supply question and leaves the two behind it wide open: how much of it crosses out of your gut, and what your body does with it once it has. Both of those are decided by a pair of vitamins, and this tin is built around the pair rather than around the mineral.

Here is the division of labor:

• Vitamin D3 handles the intake. 2,000 IU on every strip, as cholecalciferol. Vitamin D contributes to the normal absorption and utilization of calcium, which is the step every other step depends on.
• Vitamin K2 handles the upkeep. 120 mcg as menaquinone, a full day's worth on its own. Vitamin K contributes to the maintenance of normal bones, and it is the half most single-vitamin products leave out.
• It is not only about bone. Vitamin D also contributes to normal muscle function and to the maintenance of normal teeth. Those are things you use this week, not in twenty years.
• Your own supply is not steady. Skin makes vitamin D from sunlight, so what you produce moves with how much daylight actually reaches it. A strip is the same amount however that goes.

COMPASS Bone Support Strips gives you 2,000 IU of vitamin D3 and 120 mcg of vitamin K2 on one raspberry strip. One a day and no more than one, ideally around a meal with some fat in it, and what you get for it:

• More out of the calcium still on your plate. Whatever dairy, greens or fortified food you are eating now gives you back more for the same effort.
• Both halves of the job covered. Absorption and maintenance handled together, rather than one of them handled and the other left to hope.
• Something you feel the use of now. Normal muscle function is what being sure of yourself on a staircase runs on, and that is not a twenty-year payoff.

Bone works on a scale you will never feel, so here is what to watch instead.

🧪 This one you can check rather than guess

Vitamin D status is a cheap, routine blood test, which puts this in the small group of things in your morning where the answer can be looked up instead of assumed. It is worth asking for at your next appointment, particularly if what you eat has changed a lot lately.

🥑 Fat is what carries these two in

Both vitamins here are fat-soluble, and a lighter plate is very often a lower-fat one, which quietly makes this matter more rather than less. Take your strip around whatever fat is in your day, and you get more of both than you would on an empty stomach.

🦴 Your frame rebuilds on its own clock

Bone is replaced continuously, on a cycle nobody notices from the inside. Nothing about that shows up week to week. What a daily strip buys is that both nutrients turn up for it every day rather than whenever your eating happens to supply them.

🥛 When a food group shrinks, the calcium shrinks with it

Dairy is one of the largest calcium sources in an ordinary diet, and it is also one of the first things to get smaller when the plate does. If milk, yogurt and cheese are a smaller part of your day than they used to be, getting more out of what is left is the practical move.

🍓 One a day, and one only

The maximum is one strip in twenty-four hours, and that is on the label for a reason. Fat-soluble vitamins are stored rather than flushed away, so more is not better here and a second strip buys you nothing.

These two are usually sold apart, and they do two halves of a single job.

• Vitamin D3 governs the intake side. It contributes to the normal absorption and utilization of calcium, which is what decides how much of the calcium you eat ever crosses into you at all.
• Vitamin K2 governs the upkeep side. It contributes to the maintenance of normal bones, and it is the half that a plain vitamin D product leaves you to source somewhere else.
• They travel the same way. Both are fat-soluble, both take up better around food with fat in it, and putting them on the same strip means neither ends up on the wrong meal.
• Neither one is a calcium substitute. There is no calcium in this tin. It is built to sit beside the calcium you already get from food, and to make more of it count.

How the two amounts sit.

2,000 IU of vitamin D3 works out at 250 percent of a daily value, which is a deliberate amount rather than a token one, and 120 mcg of vitamin K2 is a full daily value on its own. One strip carries both, and around a meal with some fat in it is where it does the most.

That is the whole of the job, once a day, in something that tastes of raspberry.

This was made for someone whose eating has changed and who has not yet given much thought to the frame holding all of it up.

It's especially for you if:

• You cut something out of your eating and never worked out what it had quietly been supplying.
• Milk, yogurt and cheese are a smaller part of your day than they used to be.
• You take a calcium supplement and have never once asked whether you are absorbing it.
• You have never had your vitamin D measured, or had it done once, a long time ago.
• Almost all of your daylight hours are spent indoors.

2,000 IU of vitamin D3 as cholecalciferol and 120 mcg of vitamin K2 as menaquinone on every raspberry strip. 30 strips to a tin, one a day, and one is the maximum. Gluten free, corn free, hormone free, antibiotic free, all natural and made without fillers. Made in India.

If three of those sounded like you, this is the bone support you have been looking for.

Talk to your doctor before starting if you take warfarin or any other vitamin K antagonist, if you already take vitamin D from another source, or if you are on thiazide diuretics, digoxin, an orlistat-type medication or cholestyramine. The same applies if you have kidney disease, sarcoidosis or a parathyroid condition. Not for anyone under 18, and not while pregnant or nursing.

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