Vitamin D3 5000 IU + K2 100 mcg | with Extra Virgin Olive Oil & Organic Virgin Coconut Oil | 300 Softgels | Carlyle

Carlyle Vitamin D3 5000 IU + K2 100 mcg with virgin olive oil and organic virgin coconut oil, in a 300 count bottle, supports the maintenance of normal bone and normal immune function. The idea behind the pairing is that these two vitamins meet calcium from different positions: one governs how much enters the blood, the other activates the proteins that handle it in bone tissue. It serves anyone already taking vitamin D3 daily who wants vitamin K2 alongside it in a single pill rather than tracking two bottles.

What are vitamin D3 and vitamin K2?

Vitamin D3 is cholecalciferol, a fat-soluble vitamin synthesised in the skin under ultraviolet light and topped up from oily fish and egg yolk. Vitamin K2 is menaquinone, also fat-soluble but from entirely different sources: fermented foods and certain animal products, plus an amount produced by gut bacteria. What they share is that both need a lipid medium to be absorbed, and both sit at one end or another of how the body handles calcium.

Benefits of vitamin D3 and vitamin K2

• Maintaining normal bone: vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 together contribute to keeping bone tissue in its normal state.
• Activating bone proteins: vitamin K2 is tied to activating proteins that handle calcium in bone tissue.
• Calcium absorption: vitamin D3 raises the efficiency of calcium transfer from gut to blood.
• Normal blood clotting: vitamin K2 contributes to normal blood clotting.
• Immune support: adequate vitamin D3 is linked to normal immune cell performance.
• Muscle function: vitamin D3 contributes to the maintenance of normal muscle function.
• Maintaining teeth: through its role in calcium metabolism, vitamin D3 helps keep teeth in their normal state.

Active ingredients

• Vitamin D3 5000 IU: cholecalciferol, which raises calcium absorption efficiency and supports bone and immunity.
• Vitamin K2 100 mcg: menaquinone, tied to activating vitamin K dependent proteins.
• Virgin olive oil: a lipid carrier matched to the fat-soluble nature of both vitamins.
• Organic virgin coconut oil: a second lipid medium carrying vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 inside the pill.

How it works in the body

Vitamin K2 acts as cofactor to gamma-glutamyl carboxylase, the enzyme that adds a carboxyl group to glutamic acid residues inside particular proteins, giving them the ability to bind calcium. The best known of those proteins are osteocalcin, secreted by bone-building cells, and matrix Gla protein, which works in vessel walls. Without vitamin K2 both remain in their uncarboxylated form and cannot do their job with calcium. Vitamin D3 acts one step earlier: activated first in the liver and then the kidney, it yields calcitriol, which raises production of calcium transport proteins in the intestinal lining. So one governs the quantity arriving, the other activates whoever handles it.

What sets this formula apart

Carlyle places vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 inside a single pill bodied with virgin olive oil and organic virgin coconut oil, a functional choice rather than a cosmetic one. Both vitamins are fat-soluble, and holding them already dissolved in oil puts them straight into the lipid absorption route with no prior dissolution step in the digestive tract. That also serves anyone taking the pill with a low-fat meal, since the lipid medium travels inside the pill itself. A 300 count turns the whole pairing into a long-running routine at one dose a day.

Who is it for?

• Anyone already taking daily vitamin D3 who wants vitamin K2 alongside it.
• People focused on bone health inside a long, steady nutritional routine.
• Those who prefer one pill covering two nutrients to two separate bottles.
• Anyone whose diet is light on oily fish and fermented foods.
• People whose days pass away from direct sunlight.

How to use

Adults: one daily, preferably with a meal, or as directed by a healthcare professional. Pairing the dose with food serves absorption of vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 together, since both are fat-soluble, and fixing one daily slot is what keeps the routine regular across months.

Product details

• Form: pill
• Dose: 5000 IU vitamin D3 + 100 mcg vitamin K2 each
• Carrier: virgin olive oil and organic virgin coconut oil
• Count: 300
• Brand: Carlyle, United States

FAQ

What is the difference between vitamin K1 and vitamin K2?

Vitamin K1 is phylloquinone, sourced mainly from dark leafy greens, and most of it heads to the liver where it serves clotting factors. Vitamin K2, menaquinone, comes from fermented foods and some animal products and reaches tissues beyond the liver, bone among them, and it is the form used in this Carlyle product.

Why is vitamin D dosed in IU and vitamin K2 in mcg?

The international unit is a measure of biological activity used historically with vitamin D because its different forms are not equal in effect at equal weight, whereas vitamin K2 is measured directly by weight in micrograms. That is why this formula shows two figures in two different units: 5000 IU of vitamin D3 and 100 mcg of vitamin K2.

Can vitamin K2 be taken with blood thinners?

Vitamin K in all its forms interacts with anticoagulant medicines that act on the vitamin K pathway itself, so a supplement containing vitamin K2 is not added to such medication except by decision of the supervising doctor. That caution applies to this Carlyle formula exactly as it does to any other source of vitamin K2.

Cautions

• Not intended for pregnant or breastfeeding women.
• Not intended for anyone under 18.
• Consult a doctor when taking long-term medication, especially anticoagulants, as vitamin K2 interacts with them.
• Do not exceed the stated dose; periodic vitamin D testing is advisable with long-term use.
• Not a substitute for a balanced diet.