Vitamin D3 2,000 IU Supplement 50mcg Per Serving Cholecalciferol Softgels - 100 Servings, Gluten Free

Vitamin D is the one nutrient your body was designed to make rather than eat, and it makes it in your skin, from sunlight. That arrangement works beautifully in July and not at all in January, because between roughly October and March the sun does not get high enough in the sky for your skin to produce any useful amount of it at all.

Two other things stack on top of that. Skin makes steadily less vitamin D as you get older, less than half by your seventies compared with your twenties. And most of the food supply carries very little of it, so diet does not fill the gap either. That is why roughly a quarter of adults sit below the sufficiency threshold, and why the winter figure is well above the summer one.

What one softgel carries, and what it is for:

• Vitamin D3, 50 mcg or 2,000 IU – cholecalciferol, the same form your skin makes and the one that raises blood levels more effectively than D2. It contributes to the maintenance of normal bones, teeth and muscle function, to the normal absorption of calcium, and to the normal function of the immune system
• Oil, and only oil, around it – a fat-soluble vitamin delivered in a fat rather than pressed into a dry tablet
• Nothing else – no K2, no calcium and no blend, so there is one variable and one number to watch

VERA Vitamin D3 2,000 IU is one softgel a day, taken with a meal. A hundred to a bottle. What you get for that:

• Daily support for bone, muscle and immune function, through the months your skin has stopped supplying any
• The amount used in the largest trials, at half the safe upper limit
• A result you can actually check, on an ordinary blood test

🩸 The result you want is on paper

You are unlikely to feel this working, and that is not a failing of the product. Vitamin D status is measured rather than sensed. What you are buying is a number that comes back in range at your next test, and that is also the only fair way to judge it. Very few supplements can offer you that.

⏳ Levels move over months, not weeks

It takes roughly two to three months of daily intake for blood levels to settle at a new plateau. A retest sooner than that tends to read as no change when the truth is not finished yet, so if you are going to check, check in the spring rather than at the end of the month.

🍽️ It arrives better next to food

Taken alongside your largest meal, a fat-soluble vitamin arrives considerably better than it does with black coffee, and the difference has been measured. It costs nothing to move it to dinner, and it is the easiest way to get more from a softgel you are buying anyway.

🙋 Where you start decides what you get

The lower your level was when you began, the further this moves it. If your last result was comfortably in range, the same softgel does less, because it is topping up rather than filling. That is worth knowing before you decide whether it worked.

Vitamin D is sold for a great many things it has never been shown to do, so here is where this product actually sits.

• It is not an energy supplement – you will see vitamin D sold that way constantly. There is no authorised claim for it, and the nutrients that do carry one for tiredness and fatigue are the B vitamins, vitamin C, iron and magnesium. This page does not make that claim
• It is not a treatment for winter low mood – this is where the category gets it most wrong. The largest trial of this exact 2,000 IU dose followed more than 18,000 adults for over five years, looked specifically at mood, and found no effect. If your mood drops every winter, that is a conversation for your doctor and it deserves a better answer than a softgel
• On the dose, plainly – 2,000 IU is 50 mcg, which is over three times an adult's daily requirement and half the tolerable upper limit. It is a deliberate amount, not a cautious one, and it means you should add this to any multivitamin you already take rather than assuming they do not overlap
• On the softgel itself – the shell is gelatin, and the oil inside is soybean and corn oil. That means this is not vegetarian, and it is not the one for you if you avoid soy or corn. It is on the label and it belongs on the page too
• It is not a medicine – nothing here diagnoses, treats or cures anything, and it is not a treatment for any bone condition. If a test has shown you something that needs treating, that is your doctor's territory

What is left is one nutrient at the amount the evidence actually used, in the form your own skin makes, with a result you can go and measure.

This was made for women who have seen a number they did not like on a blood test and want the next one to be different.

It's especially for you if:

• Your doctor mentioned your vitamin D and then moved on to the next thing
• You live somewhere with a real winter and you have worked out what that means
• You have started thinking about your bones and would rather be early about it than late
• You looked at a 10,000 IU bottle and thought that cannot possibly be necessary
• You want one variable in the bottle so you know what moved the number

One nutrient at 2,000 IU, 100 softgels to a bottle and one a day. Gluten free. Made in the USA.

Chances are, this is the vitamin D you have been looking for.

It is not for you if you are vegetarian or vegan, because the softgel shell is gelatin, or if you avoid soy or corn, because the oil inside is both. It is also not for you if you already take a high-dose vitamin D or have been told your calcium runs high, until you have spoken to your doctor.

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.