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Vitamins D and K with Sea-Iodine.

Backed by human trialsLife Extension, verified Oct 2026Formula verified. Independently reviewed.Independent review. Not commissioned by Life Extension.

Iodine is the lead active here, studied most for iodine status. 13 human studies on Iodine back this formula, each one cited. Vitamin K1 is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for. Who it fits: skews toward women, adults.

Clinically dosedFull label disclosure
4Active ingredientsWell studiedResearch base58Human studies
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The verdict
Backed by human trials
For Skews toward women, adults.
How we verify

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The formula
Vitamin D3: Filling everyday nutrient gapsExtensively studied
Vitamin K1: Filling everyday nutrient gapsExtensively studied
Vitamin K2: Filling everyday nutrient gapsExtensively studied
Iodine: Iodine statusKey driver
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How we read this product

Source: Supplement facts
Supplement Facts panel for Vitamins D and K with Sea-Iodine
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    We read the label.

    The panel on the left is the one we evaluated, line by line.

  2. 02
    Every active, separately.

    All 4 actives checked against the clinical evidence: dose, form, and what the research actually shows.

  3. 03
    Then the formula as a whole.

    Doses, ratios, and how the ingredients work together. That assessment is the verdict above: "Backed by human trials".

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    Earned, not bought.

    The verdict is public and identical whether or not a brand pays. A formula that does not clear the bar gets nothing.

Read by the engine against 2.1 million data points from clinical trials, PubMed and more than a hundred vetted sources. No individual reviewer is named or implied.

The receipts

Well studied
Research base
58
Human studies
1000 mcg
Iodine
125 mcg
Vitamin D3
1 mg per serving clears the studied 90 mcg minimum
Vitamin K1, NIH ODS + Booth 2012 review
1 mg per serving clears the studied 45 mcg minimum
Vitamin K2, Knapen 2013 + Geleijnse 2004 Rotterdam study
1 mg per serving clears the studied 150 mcg minimum
Iodine, NIH ODS + Zimmermann 2009 review

Cross-checked against 473 documented interactions for these actives.

Read the evidenceVitamin D3, the evidence →Vitamin K1, the evidence →Vitamin K2, the evidence →Iodine, the evidence →

Inside the formula

Vitamin D3
20 studies
Filling everyday nutrient gaps
Extensively studied
Vitamin K1
14 studies
Filling everyday nutrient gaps
Extensively studied
Vitamin K2
13 studies
Filling everyday nutrient gaps
Extensively studied
Iodine
13 studies
Iodine status
Key driver
In context

The gap this formula speaks to.

Public health figures the engine matched to this formula's ingredients. Reported by their source, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

The people it speaks toFieldwork 2019

12.3% of US adults

met the fruit intake recommendation and 10.0% the vegetable recommendation in 2019, in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System across 49 states.

CDC, MMWR, 2022
This formulaNHANES 2017-2018, published 2021

57.6%

During 2017 to 2018, 57.6% of US adults aged 20 and over reported using a dietary supplement in the past 30 days.

CDC National Center for Health Statistics
28 more
The people it speaks to

60.2% of US adults aged 20 and over

took a dietary supplement in the past 30 days, and 38.7% took two or more, in the 2021 to 2023 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

CDC National Center for Health Statistics, 2026
Daily use

59 to 66 days

was the median time it took adults to make a new daily health habit automatic across the studies a 2024 review pooled, with individuals ranging from 4 to 335 days.

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024
Vitamin K2

Meta-analysis, 2022

Across nine trials in postmenopausal women, vitamin K2 raised lumbar spine bone density by about 2.2 percent and forearm bone density by about 1.6 percent compared with control.

Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism
Vitamin K1

Randomised trial, 2014

Twelve months of phylloquinone (vitamin K1) supplementation improved markers of vitamin K status, including a higher share of carboxylated osteocalcin, with no clear difference detected in bone density measures.

The British journal of nutrition
Vitamin K2

Meta-analysis, 2025

Across six mostly observational studies in 2,327 Japanese adults, habitual natto intake linked to much higher blood MK-7 and modestly greater bone density, a food-intake association, not a measured effect.

Front Nutr
Vitamin K2

Randomised trial, 2013

In healthy postmenopausal women, three years of 180 micrograms a day of MK-7 slowed bone density loss at the spine and hip, and improved bone strength.

The paper
Knapen et al., 2013PMID 23525894
Vitamin K2

Randomised trial, 2020

In this trial of a low daily MK-7 amount, bone mineral density changed over the study period in the group given it, an imaging measurement, not a clinical event.

Calcified Tissue International
Vitamin K2

Meta-analysis, 2025

In nine trials of 2,570 older women with low bone mass, vitamin K2 changed blood signals tied to bone turnover, not actual bone strength.

Front Endocrinol
Vitamin D3

Meta-analysis, 2024

Across 10 trials in 318 athletes, vitamin D3 raised blood vitamin D by about 14.8 nmol/L and hinted at better muscle strength, though few trials leave that uncertain.

Frontiers in Nutrition
Vitamin D3

Randomised trial, 2025

Vitamin D3 supplementation changed the inflammatory protein CHI3L1 and oxidative stress markers in adults with a chronic demyelinating condition. These are markers, not clinical outcomes.

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
Vitamin K1

Systematic review, 2024

Pooling randomised trials in middle-aged and older adults, vitamin K supplementation was linked with small differences in bone mineral density at some skeletal sites and with changes in markers of bone turnover.

Bone & joint research
Vitamin D3

Meta-analysis, 2024

Across 20 studies, daily vitamin D3 raised blood vitamin D levels by about 10.4 nmol/L more than the same dose of vitamin D2, roughly 40 percent more.

Advances in Nutrition
Vitamin K1

Systematic review, 2025

A systematic narrative review of vitamins formed by microorganisms in fermented foods reports that bacteria produce menaquinones rather than phylloquinone, and discusses what that contributes to human vitamin status.

Frontiers in Nutrition
Vitamin K1

Randomised trial, 2015

In 82 younger women with above-normal blood sugar, 1000 micrograms of vitamin K1 daily for four weeks left two-hour post-glucose-load blood sugar at about 7.3 mmol/L against 8.6 in the placebo group and raised the insulin sensitivity index, while insulin resistance measured by the authors was unchanged.

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Vitamin D3

Meta-analysis, 2014

Across 23 trials of 4,082 adults, vitamin D raised bone mineral density at the femoral neck by about 0.8%, with no measurable change at the spine, hip, or other sites.

Lancet
Vitamin K1

Randomised trial, 2010

In 42 women past midlife, vitamin K1 daily for 12 months left a bone marker at about 0.9 ng/mL versus 3.1 on placebo, but insulin and blood sugar were unchanged.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Vitamin K2

Systematic review, 2026

The authors report that effects on glycaemic measures differ across groups with differing baseline blood sugar status, so results are not uniform across populations. The outcomes assessed are blood markers.

Nutrients
Iodine

Meta-analysis, 2026

In pregnant women with low iodine status, iodine was linked to lower TSH and thyroglobulin in the blood, both markers rather than health outcomes.

Frontiers in Public Health
Iodine

Systematic review, 2021

Across pooled studies, iodine supplementation in pregnancy shifted maternal iodine status and thyroid function measures, while effects on offspring endpoints were inconsistent between studies.

European Journal of Endocrinology
Iodine

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020

In pregnant women with mild to moderate iodine deficiency, iodine lowered a thyroid marker and curbed the usual pregnancy rise in thyroid size. Infant cognitive, language and motor scores showed no change across trials.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Iodine

Systematic review, 2021

In areas with low population iodine intake, supplementation during pregnancy was associated with better neurocognitive development scores in offspring in some but not all included studies.

Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Vitamin K1

Randomised trial, 2008

In 440 women after midlife with lower than usual bone density, 5 mg of vitamin K1 daily for two to four years did not slow the age-related decline in spine or hip bone mineral density, although it raised blood vitamin K1 about tenfold and lowered undercarboxylated osteocalcin.

PLoS Medicine

Population figures from public health data. Context for the category, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

What this formula earned

Every one of these is a fact the engine could ground.

Each line below was derived from this formula's own record at the time of verification. Nothing here was written by the brand, and nothing can be added that the evidence does not carry.

  • Studied in people20 human studies on Vitamin D3 back this formula, each one cited.
  • A mechanism that is settledHow Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K1 work is settled pharmacology.
  • Studied together, not just separatelyVitamin D3 and Vitamin K1 have been studied together, not only separately.
  • Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2026.
  • A stated daily maintenance amountVitamin K1 is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for.
  • Why this formatIt is a capsule, so the amount per serving is fixed and travels without measuring.
  • The exact form, describedThe label names its forms exactly: Vitamin D3 in a carrier oil, lanolin-derived, Vitamin K1 in an oil-filled softgel, MK-7, all-trans menaquinone-7. The record says what each one is and what it suits.
  • Full label disclosureEvery ingredient on this label carries its own declared amount.
  • Where it comes from and how it is madeVitamin D3 is made by more than one route.
  • Positions this formula already qualifies forThis formula already qualifies for positions beyond the one it is sold into, on the evidence it carries.
  • A position nobody is holding yetSome of those positions are ones almost nobody is selling to yet.
Studied together

The combinations the trials actually measured.

One pairing in this formula has been studied as a combination in human trials. Each finding below is what a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

  • Vitamin D3 + Vitamin K2Bone

    In a meta-analysis of eight randomized trials, vitamin K2 taken together with vitamin D raised total bone mineral density and lowered undercarboxylated osteocalcin, a marker of vitamin K status.

    Promising

Research strength. Research strength says how much work stands behind the combination. It is never a product score.

Fail closed. Where actives were studied on their own rather than together, each shows on its own evidence, never a combined effect no trial measured.

Independent record. Every finding is cited to a named trial, dated, and never written by the brand.

Findings from trials that studied these actives as a combination. Context for how the actives were tested together, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

What the trials show

What the trials show about timing.

Time-to-effect windows the engine read from the trial record. Each is a window a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

  • Vitamin D3about 3 months of daily useBuilds with daily use

    In the trial record, blood vitamin D rises for about 3 months of daily vitamin D3 and then holds at a plateau, near 69 nmol/L at 1,000 IU a day, from a starting level near 41 nmol/L.

    Early
  • Vitamin K1cleared from plasma within hoursMeasured within a day

    In a stable-isotope study, 10 healthy adults aged 22 to 31 took labelled vitamin K1 for six days and then an intravenous dose to resolve its disposal kinetics. Plasma vitamin K1 cleared with half-times of about 0.22 and 2.66 hours, and absorption of an oral dose was about 13 percent.

    Promising
  • Vitamin K2about four weeks of daily useBuilds with daily use

    A double-blind randomised dose-finding trial gave 60 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 69 either 0, 50, 100 or 200 micrograms of menaquinone-7 daily for four weeks on a controlled diet. The ratio of carboxylated to undercarboxylated osteocalcin rose dose dependently, with significant differences from the 0 microgram group at 100 and 200 micrograms. A companion 12-week trial in 120 people aged 20 to 69 confirmed the change at 100 micrograms daily. Both studies were run by authors affiliated with the R and D division of J-Oil Mills. An independent 8-week double-blind trial in 55 healthy prepubertal children found the same direction at 45 micrograms daily. What was measured is a blood marker of vitamin K status, not bone density and not a sensation.

    Promising
  • Vitamin K2three years of daily use, with measurements at one, two and three yearsBuilds with daily use

    A double-blind randomised trial gave 244 healthy postmenopausal women either placebo or 180 micrograms of menaquinone-7 daily for three years, with bone mineral density measured by DXA at baseline and after each year. Menaquinone-7 decreased the age-related decline in bone mineral content and bone mineral density at the lumbar spine and femoral neck, but not at the total hip. The effect is a slowed decline rather than a gain, and the trial ran three years rather than weeks.

    Promising
  • Iodinefrom about eight weeks, deepening through twenty-four weeksBuilds with daily use

    In a 24 week randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial in 112 mildly iodine-deficient New Zealand adults aged 18 to 40, 150 micrograms of iodine a day as potassium iodate lowered thyroglobulin, a blood marker of iodine status, by 12 percent at 8 weeks, 20 percent at 16 weeks and 27 percent at 24 weeks compared with placebo. Median urinary iodine reached 168 micrograms per litre against 79 on placebo. TSH and free T4 stayed within normal range and did not change significantly.

    Promising

Windows measured in the cited trials. Context for how the active behaves over time, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

General timing

How each ingredient usually behaves over time.

Four ingredients, from each one's own page.

  • Vitamin D3About six to twelve weeks

    25-hydroxyvitamin D climbs over roughly six to twelve weeks of daily dosing before it plateaus. It's a blood level you watch rather than a feeling.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • Vitamin K1Within days

    Clotting factor carboxylation responds within days, and circulating phylloquinone tracks what you ate this week. It reads on a lab measure rather than as a feeling.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • Vitamin K2Days, not hours

    Days for absorption, weeks for the marker. Undercarboxylated osteocalcin falls across roughly four to twelve weeks of daily intake, and that is a status marker rather than an outcome.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • IodineWeeks, not days

    Thyroid hormone turns over slowly, so the change lands on a urinary iodine measure and a thyroid panel before it lands anywhere in your day.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

How each ingredient usually behaves over time, from its own page on IngredientMD. General timing for the ingredient, not a measurement of this product.

Chemical form

The same ingredient, carried differently.

What each form is, and where it fits in a formula. Measured findings carry the study that reported them.

  • Cholecalciferol (vitamin D3)

    The animal-sourced form of vitamin D, made in skin under UVB light and produced commercially from lanolin. Fat-soluble, so it travels with dietary fat and is stored in body fat.

    Fits
    Raising and holding vitamin D status, and the form most supplement trials use.
    Trade-off
    Being fat-soluble it accumulates with sustained high dosing, so intakes are set against the tolerable upper level rather than topped up freely.

    In a 12-week double-blind randomised controlled trial in 108 young women in urban Bangalore, most of whom began vitamin D-deficient, daily vitamin D3 at 400, 600 or 800 IU in a fortified wafer raised serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, parathyroid hormone fell over time, and effects on bone-turnover markers were modest and not dose specific. The 800 IU dose brought 65 percent of participants to sufficiency.

Descriptions of the form itself, read from the cited studies. Not a comparison between products and not a statement about any individual.

Format

Capsule

It is a capsule, so the amount per serving is fixed and travels without measuring.

Best forMost standard doses, and anywhere a short, clean label is the point.
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Questions shoppers ask

Is Vitamins D and K with Sea-Iodine independently verified?
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What's in Vitamins D and K with Sea-Iodine?
Vitamins D and K with Sea-Iodine is built on Vitamin D3, Vitamin K1, Vitamin K2, Iodine. Each ingredient links to its own evidence page on IngredientMD.
Were ingredient interactions checked?
Yes. The combination was screened against 473 documented interactions for these actives in IngredientMD's interaction database.
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