Alive! Ultra Potency Men's Multi.

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.

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

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 people22 human studies on Zinc back this formula, each one cited.
• A mechanism that is settledHow Vitamin A and Vitamin C work is settled pharmacology.
• Studied together, not just separatelyVitamin A and Zinc have been studied together, not only separately.
• Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2025.
• Serving amount inside the studied rangeEach serving carries 15 mg of Zinc, inside the range the published research used.
• A stated daily maintenance amountZinc is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for.
• Why this formatIt is a tablet, so the amount per serving is fixed and it stores well.
• The exact form, describedThe label names its forms exactly: Beta-carotene, Ascorbic acid, Vitamin D3 dissolved in an edible oil. 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 A 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.
• Interaction screen on the recordEvery active on this label was screened against the interaction record, and the screen is published with it.

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.

  Kuang et al., 2020 (Food & Function)PMID 32219282

  Promising

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 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.

  Vieth et al., 2001 (Am J Clin Nutr)PMID 11157326

  Early
• 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.

  Inaba et al., 2015 (J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo))PMID 26875489

  van Summeren et al., 2009 (Br J Nutr)PMID 19450370

  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.

  Knapen et al., 2013 (Osteoporos Int)PMID 23525894

  Promising
• Zincover about five days of lozenges started within 24 hours of symptom onsetBuilds with daily use

  Across three randomised placebo-controlled trials pooled as individual patient data (199 adults with naturally acquired colds, 80 to 92 mg of elemental zinc a day as acetate lozenges), 70 percent of the zinc group had recovered by day 5 against 27 percent on placebo, and colds ran 2.73 days shorter against a 7 day average duration. A separate meta-analysis of seven lozenge trials (575 participants, doses above 75 mg a day, zinc acetate or zinc gluconate) measured cold duration 33 percent shorter, with no significant difference between the two salts.

  Hemilä et al., 2017 (Open Forum Infect Dis)PMID 28480298

  Hemilä et al., 2016 (Br J Clin Pharmacol)PMID 27378206

  Hemilä, 2017 (JRSM Open)PMID 28515951

  Strong
• Zincabout two to four weeks of daily intakeBuilds with daily use

  In a controlled feeding study in nine healthy men, six weeks of restricted zinc intake raised DNA strand breaks in peripheral blood cells, and four weeks of repletion at 11 mg a day, with 20 mg of supplemental zinc for the first seven days, reversed the rise. In a separate randomised placebo-controlled trial in 40 Ethiopian women eating a high-phytate diet, 20 mg a day of zinc sulfate for 17 days lowered mean comet tail moment from 39.7 to 30.0 while plasma zinc did not change significantly. Both windows were measured on a DNA damage marker in blood cells, not on a symptom.

  Song and colleagues 2009, American Journal of Clinical NutritionPMID 19515738

  Joray and colleagues 2015, Nutrition ResearchPMID 25491347

  Early
• Lycopeneabout 12 weeks of daily useBuilds with daily use

  In a randomised controlled trial in 75 healthy adults, daily tomato juice providing 15.0 or 26.7 mg of lycopene raised serum lycopene concentrations and, at week 12 of daily intake with measurements every 4 weeks, flow-mediated dilation, a measure of normal vascular endothelial function, was higher than with a low-lycopene placebo juice.

  Yoshida et al., 2025 (Food & function)PMID 40936452

  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.

How each ingredient usually behaves over time.

9 ingredients, from each one's own page.

• Vitamin AWeeks, not days

  Weeks to months. It is a status ingredient, so the change turns up in plasma carotenoid and retinol readings rather than in anything day to day.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• Vitamin CWithin hours

  Plasma levels climb within hours and plateau near the top of the band. Collagen-linked changes in gums and skin show up across weeks, on examination rather than by sensation.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• Vitamin D3About six to twelve weeks

  Blood 25-hydroxyvitamin D climbs over six to twelve weeks on a steady daily dose. It is a panel change first, and anything subjective trails behind it.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• Vitamin K2Within days

  Blood levels move within days. Carboxylation of the vitamin K dependent proteins shifts over roughly four to twelve weeks, and that shows on a lab panel rather than in how you feel.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• B-ComplexWithin hours

  Riboflavin brightens your urine within hours. The measurable part, homocysteine or B12 on a panel, moves across four to twelve weeks.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• ZincWithin days

  Blood zinc moves within days. The parts you would notice, skin behaviour and immune resilience, take four to twelve weeks of steady daily intake.

  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.

The same ingredient, carried differently.

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

• Beta-carotene

  Chemically synthesised crystalline carotene, essentially a single all-trans isomer of high purity.

  Fits

  Standardised supplement and fortification use where a consistent, defined isomer content is wanted.

  Trade-off

  It supplies one isomer rather than the mixture found in a plant source, and the crystal needs a delivery system to be dispersible at all.

• Ascorbic acid

  The unbuffered acid, pKa around 4.2, fully water soluble and the reference form for most assays and trials.

  Fits

  Anyone matching a research dose or wanting no added mineral load.

  Trade-off

  The acidity can be noticeable in the stomach for some people at larger single doses, and it is hard on tooth enamel in chewable or powder-in-water use.

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

Tablet

It is a tablet, so the amount per serving is fixed and it stores well.