Vitamin D3 1000ie Vegan | 60 softgels

When to use a vitamin D supplement?
You can get vitamin D through food, but you only get minimal amounts through your food. Especially during the darker autumn and winter months, a vitamin D supplement can be a useful addition to a healthy diet. And for some groups of people, a vitamin D supplement is recommended all year round, for example for:

• Pregnant women;
• People with tinted skin;
• People who do not get enough sun;
• Women over 50 years old;
• Men over 70 years old.

Especially when you eat vegetarian or vegan and don't get much sun exposure, it can be useful to supplement the diet with a vitamin D supplement during the winter months. It is even more difficult to absorb vitamin D from food if you do not eat animal products.

What is vitamin D good for?
The health benefits of vitamin D are multifaceted. Vitamin D:

• Is good for the bones. Vitamin D increases the absorption of calcium in the bones and is therefore important for the composition of bones;
• Is good for the teeth. It helps keep teeth strong;
• Contributes to the functioning of the muscles. It plays a role in maintaining smooth and strong muscles;
• Contributes to the absorption of dietary calcium and phosphorus and supports the normal use of these minerals by the body;
• It has a beneficial effect on the cell division process and vitamin D has a role in the process of tissue growth and development;
• Has a positive effect on the immune system;

Knowledge about vitamin D and its role in the body has increased in recent decades. For example, receptors for vitamin D have been found in more than 30 different types of tissues and organs (including in the uterus, thyroid, placenta and breast). Receptors are a kind of receptors for the vitamin on the outside of the cell.

Will I not get too much vitamin D if I also take Ultimate MultiMama ?

Our advice is to get around 2000 international units (IU) of vitamin D per day. The following combination will give you the dose of 1600 IU vitamin D(3):

• Vitamin D3 - 1000 IU
• Ultimate Multi Mama - 600 IU

We therefore advise you to take both supplements, both Ultimate MultiMama and Vitamin D3. You get additional vitamin D through sufficient sunlight / being outside (in the summer months) and through a balanced and healthy diet.

What is Vitamin D3?
Vitamin D is a vitamin that is mainly produced when your skin comes into contact with the sun. That is why vitamin D is also nicknamed the 'sunshine vitamin'.

To make enough vitamin D in the skin, it is important that you spend at least 15 to 30 minutes outside every day. The time you are outside certainly makes a difference: you catch the most powerful sunbeams between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. And let those often be the hours that we are indoors a lot, for example due to work. In addition, the solar radiation in the Netherlands is much less powerful in the autumn and winter months. The sun is then too low. Fortunately, we can also get vitamin D through food or through a supplement.

Which foods contain vitamin D?
Vitamin D is mainly found in animal products, such as fish, eggs, and meat. In the Netherlands, margarines and low-fat spreads are also enriched with vitamin D, but oils such as olive oil or coconut oil are not.

The difference between vitamin D2 and D3
Vitamin D comes in different forms. Vitamin D2 and D3 are useful for the human body. Vitamin D2 is also called vegetable vitamin D, because it is formed in fungi and mushrooms. Vitamin D3 is of animal origin. This is also the form that is produced in our own skin under the influence of sunlight. Vitamin D3 supplements have a stronger effect on the body than vitamin D2. Also read more about the difference between vitamin D and D3 .

Vegan Vitamin D3
In many other vegan vitamin D supplements, vitamin D2 is the non-animal source of vitamin D. But because vitamin D3 has a stronger effect, the demand for a vegan variant of vitamin D3 is high. And that non-animal form of vitamin D3 exists.

Ovabalance Vegan Vitamin D3 uses a completely vegetable variant of vitamin D3. Namely Vitamin D3V. Vitamin D3V is produced from algae. D3V has been shown to be chemically similar to vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) obtained from animal sources.

Vitamin D3 from Ovabalance is therefore suitable for vegans and vegetarians.

Is the Ovabalance D3 supplement safe?

• In contrast to extracting vitamin D from sheep's wool, no pesticides are used with the algae. Therefore, the chance of residual pesticides in the supplement is non-existent;
• The algae that produce vitamin D3V are not genetically modified.

NB:

• Do not exceed the recommended daily amount.
• This product is not suitable for children up to and including 10 years of age;
• Store Ovabalance Vegan Vitamin D3 dry and at room temperature;
• Keep this product out of the reach of young children.
• A healthy lifestyle is important. A dietary supplement is not a substitute for a varied diet.