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Vitamin D3 + K2.

Strong evidence, strong doseSports Research, verified Oct 2026Formula verified. Independently reviewed.Independent review. Not commissioned by Sports Research.

Vitamin D3 is the lead active here, studied most for filling everyday nutrient gaps. 20 human studies on Vitamin D3 back this formula, each one cited. Each serving carries 100 mcg of Vitamin K2, inside the range the published research used. Who it fits: for everyone, adults.

Clinically dosedFull label disclosure
2Active ingredientsWell studiedResearch base33Human studies
Vitamin D3 + K2Verified by IngredientMD
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The verdict
Strong evidence, strong dose
For everyone, adults.
How we verify

The brand submits the formula. We read the supplement facts panel and weigh dose, form and synergy against the clinical evidence. Labs test. IngredientMD verifies. The fee pays for review time, never for the outcome.

The formula
Vitamin D3: Filling everyday nutrient gapsKey driver
Vitamin K2: Filling everyday nutrient gapsExtensively studied

How we read this product

Source: Supplement facts
Supplement Facts panel for Vitamin D3 + K2
  1. 01
    We read the label.

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

  2. 02
    Every active, separately.

    All 2 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: "Strong evidence, strong dose".

  4. 04
    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
33
Human studies
62.5 mcg
Vitamin D3
100 mcg
Vitamin K2
100 mcg per serving sits inside the studied 45 mcg-100 mcg range
Vitamin K2, Knapen 2013 + Geleijnse 2004 Rotterdam study

Cross-checked against 1 documented interactions for these actives.

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

Inside the formula

Vitamin D3
20 studies
Filling everyday nutrient gaps
Key driver
Vitamin K2
13 studies
Filling everyday nutrient gaps
Studied 45 mcg to 500 mcg a day
Extensively studied
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
15 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 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 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 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

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 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 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

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 K2 work is settled pharmacology.
  • Studied together, not just separatelyVitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 have been studied together, not only separately.
  • Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2026.
  • Serving amount inside the studied rangeEach serving carries 100 mcg of Vitamin K2, inside the range the published research used.
  • A stated daily maintenance amountVitamin K2 is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for.
  • Why this formatIt is a softgel, so the active is already dissolved in oil and the shell keeps it away from air and light.
  • The exact form, describedThe label names its forms exactly: Vitamin D3 in a carrier oil, lanolin-derived, 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 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

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.

Two 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 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

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

Softgel

It is a softgel, so the active is already dissolved in oil and the shell keeps it away from air and light.

Best forFat-soluble actives and oils: vitamin D, vitamin E, omega-3, CoQ10.
From the same shelf

Studied alongside this brand's other formulas

Where two of this brand's products carry actives the literature has read together, the pairing and its basis are below. The evidence word is the corpus row's own confidence, never a score.

Questions shoppers ask

Is Vitamin D3 + K2 independently verified?
Yes. IngredientMD reviewed this formula independently and verified it in Oct 2026. The verdict is earned, not bought: brands can't edit or purchase it.
What's in Vitamin D3 + K2?
Vitamin D3 + K2 is built on Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2. Each ingredient links to its own evidence page on IngredientMD.
Were ingredient interactions checked?
Yes. The combination was screened against 1 documented interactions for these actives in IngredientMD's interaction database.
Who is IngredientMD?
IngredientMD is an independent supplement-science platform. We analyze ingredients and formulas against clinical research, and we verify products only when they clear our bar. Labs run the tests. We review the results.
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