Seeking Health Optimal Vitamin D Liquid Vitamin D - 2,000 IU Per Drop

I have had chronic fatigue for a long time, and one of the tests the doctor ran was basic vitamin deficiency test, and found that I have a Vitamin D deficiency. What is vitamin D and what does it do? According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), vitamin D is good for your bones. Specifically, it helps with absorption of calcium; without enough vitamin D, you can get soft, thin, and brittle bones. Vitamin D naturally comes from either certain foods (fatty fish is one of the best food sources), or from skin exposure to the sun. There are some studies that show that taking calcium and vitamin D together may help with weight reduction. Apparently the majority of industrial citizens have a Vitamin D deficiency, due to the amount of time we spend indoors, and avoiding direct sun (or getting sun exposure through a window). People who often have especial problems getting enough vitamin D: infants, older adults, those with darker skins, people with obesity, and people with Crohn's disease or Celiac disease. Our bodies naturally make vitamin D3, and so it is usually considered best to use D3 supplements, as they most closely mimic our bodies' natural source of vitamin D. The Seeking Health liquid vitamin D3 drops are very very concentrated: since I'm deficient, I was recommended to take 2,000 IU per day, and this hits that target with only one drop! The drops themselves do not have an unpleasant taste. The base oil is olive oil, and when I put it directly on my tongue (I was in a hurry! :), there was no taste - the oil texture was the only perceptible thing about it. I suspect it would go especially well in a salad dressing. Seeking Health said that it created its vitamin D drops from natural, well-treated sheep lanolin (the moisturizing/protective stuff on sheep wool). I have no way of verifying that. On the Seeking Health website, several people asked questions and "Dr. Ben" responded about the source of the vitamin D drops and how the sheep were treated. Not authoritative, but seems to indicate consistency in message, at the very least. So I'm willing to buy it, unless I hear otherwise.

This vitamin D3 was much needed in a long winter! I had no problems with digestion, ingredients are clean, I trust the brand, and it’s so easy to take. Helped my mood for sure.

This is the best Vitamin D I have taken! Knowing whether or not supplements are 'working' can definitely be tricky, but I like to introduce one thing at a time to my system while slowly removing other things to see if I notice any difference. This Vitamin D comes in liquid drops in an olive oil base, in an amber-colored glass bottle with a glass dropper and rubber/plastic top. The bottle does not seem to be super delicate or fragile, which is great! (That doesn't mean you should throw it on the floor to test it!) The olive oil is authentic and lends the taste of olive oil only - I couldn't taste the Vitamin D at all (all vitamins taste disgusting in raw form except Vitamin C which is just super tart, but there are some that are particularly gross, like Vitamin D and B Vitamins) - so I definitely like that I don't have to fear gagging from an ill-tasting supplement. A+ for taste! I do notice the difference when I forget to take it. I have really bad Seasonal Affectionate Disorder in the winter, and that is when I especially notice that this Vitamin D is like a 'boost', albeit the boost is subtle - but I definitely feel my B6 and B12 kick into higher gear when I add this to the mix. I especially love that you only need one drop a day, so as long as you keep this bottle in a cool, dark place (but do check the expiration date) - this will last a while and is well worth the price. You can also take this with you in your toiletry bag if you're flying anywhere and not have to worry about having a ton of pills holding you up at TSA and having to explain to them that they're your vitamins! LOL **Disclaimer: I am not your doctor and I claim NO responsibility for your results! Always consult your primary care physician before taking any supplements.

Easy to take with my coffee. One less pill

I share a dilemma with thousands of other people: my body can't properly pull nutrients from foods and supplements in pill form due to a serious digestive ailment. So I'm always looking for good alternatives that deliver needed nutrients via drops or sprays sub-lingually, or via skin creams. I also need stuff that's unsweetened/flavored, due to having (and wanting) to avoid both sugars and artificial sweeteners. (Why so many supplement companies think it's a great thing to make vitamin/supplement drops very sweet I have no idea. It's NOT a great thing. Most such drops taste cloyingly sweet and artificial, not to mention the negative effects of the sweeteners.) I always need extra Vit. D and was therefore very happy to find these Vitamin D3 drops in their unsweetened, unflavored base of pure olive oil. That's a huge plus, in my opinion. I'm not sure I've been using them long enough to feel their real effects, but I'm certainly not feeling any ill effects from switching from capsules to these drops -- i.e., I can tell that I'm not getting too little Vitamin D., so I know these are delivering the vitamin as they should. My only caveat about these drops is that it's a bit hard to get an exact dose -- to tell how many drops you're actually using, because due to the oil base you can't really feel each drop as it lands in your mouth/under your tongue, and you can't see (when you're putting them in your own mouth) how many drops are truly coming out of the dropper. The dropper does have milliliter markings on it, which is helpful. But the bottle doesn't indicate how many drops equals how many milliliters. If it did, that would be much more helpful. All in all, I'm giving these drops high marks for being truly "natural" and for their makers not feeling the need to gunk them up with flavorings and sugary taste.

I typically use olive oil whenever I can in cooking and eating so I when I got these drops, I was really excited. Turns out I didn’t realize olive oil, on its own, has a strong taste. Looking back, it’s kinda obvious and it’s not a big deal for me - I just drop it into my morning smoothie and can’t even taste it. It’s just a huge difference compared to the drops I’ve used in the past and deciding that I’d rather use olive oil than other types of oils I can’t pronounce. Other than that, I’m happy this product uses a regular dropper (the last one used the other non-dropper based cap that takes *forever* for a drop to come out towards the end of its lifetime) UPDATE (Jan 2025): Bumping this up to 5 stars! I've been using these drops for over 7 years now. I was diagnosed w low vit-D & took 2-3 drops (4000-6000IU/day) per doctor's instructions, I went back & he said "whatever you're doing, keep doing it!" - that was proof enough for me these drops are effective. A bottle lasts me 2 years so it's more cost effective than tablets (not to mention it remains untouched by the pill creation process which can lower efficacy!) Be sure to check with your doctor for your recommended dosage, how long to keep up a high dose and whether to drop the level of your dose once your vitamin D levels get back to normal (if deficiency is why you are taking them)

Okay, I ordered this stuff some time back and then couldn't use it because I had to eliminate all fats from my diet for about 6 weeks. Then I sort of forgot about. But I recently found it and thought, I should use this...we've got long, dark winters here. I opened it and then used some and when I went to re-screw the dropper top back on the threads didn't work properly. I was annoyed with that, as that would have been noticed at the time of bottling, but they didn't want to change the bottle out. So I sort of forgot about it again...meanwhile....my 19 year old mini dachshund who is still a good eater and able to get around (although he's got a hitch in his get along) developed a really bad eye infection. I mean green pus gobbing up his eye...it looked like a horror movie effect. I tried natural stuff first but I knew it was painful so I got him on antibiotics. That cleared it up but then about a week and a half afterwards it returned. I put ointments and other stuff in his eye which had minimal impact and not only was his eye still oozing this fluorescent green stuff and crusting up his eye and in the morning it was crusted closed, I could see the sclera of eye was red and inflamed looking. Back to the vet, and she said that it was probably due to his teeth (they are in bad shape...he hates having his teeth brushed, and I mean violently whips his head out of your hands and buries his face and the last few years because of his age and a heart problem I stopped teeth cleaning because putting him under was not a risk I wanted to take. But his teeth are in bad shape and she thought that it could be that was causing his eye infection and she said we could just try giving him a weeks worth of antibiotics once a month. Well, I've done that for two months. So he's been on antibiotics now for 3 cycles and the green ooze would just return more quickly after completing each successive cycle. Being 19 he had cataracts and some dementia too, but just such a happy, sweet boy that would gallop around the house in little bursts of energy at times. However he was sleeping a lot and I was wondering if it was time to make a very hard decision. (Tears) But I was packing up and putting some stuff away and came across this little bottle, and I honestly don't know what I thought...I don't know what was going through my mind but I thought I'm going to give him some. I actually gave him 2 drops about 3 times a day....and then after a couple days of that, I decided to also put a drop in his eye. He didn't really like that, so I put some other soothing drops in...but I kept doing it. Every day I would give him drops under his lips a few times through out the day and put a drop in his eye. Well, I'm stunned. Not only has his energy increased, I mean literally he was pretty much sleeping all day, and then would get agitated at sundown, just like with Alzheimer's. I truly believed he was sundowning. But now he is running and jumping! WHAT??! But his eyes are so much clearer. I'm not just talking about the green goop. That has dramatically decreased and it's not green anymore. But I'm even talking about the cataracts. His eyes were pretty cloudy looking even before this eye infection began. But even THAT seems to be improving. I had NO expectation that it would have this effect on him. I hoped it would help, figured it certainly could not hurt, so I thought why not. I know that vitamin D3 can clear up colds and flu if you dose through out the day. I knew of a guy who had to travel for a speaking engagement and got the flu...he's in his 70's, didn't want to cancel as this had been planned for months, but he said he started dosing with D3 every hour and by the second day it was pretty much gone and he was fine to travel. I've never forgotten that, but still this surprised me with my dog. I will continue to keep him on the D3 and I guess I'd better get myself on it too now!

I am of East Indian origin, skin type 4.5 on the 1-6 Fitzpatrick scale. Darker skin types need more sunlight to get their Vitamin D. Ever since I started to measure my Vitamin D levels 7-8 years ago, every blood test has shown a number around 10. One time it was just 6. I have tried to get more sun in the recent summers when it is readily available, but this has made little difference in my Vitamin D level readings. From what I have read, one needs to go out at very specific times of the day in the northern regions of the world to get the correct type and frequency range of sunlight/UV waves. Unfortunately, due to work commitments and some laziness, this is not always possible for me. Moreover, when I do get exposed to sunlight, usually it is just my face and arms that are getting direct contact since I am out during work hours when I am not wearing shorts. I have also read that a lot of East Indians have low vitamin D even in India where the sun is present almost 365 days of the year. In any case, I am not fully convinced that one needs levels of Vitamin D above 30.0 as most doctors these days recommend. Some even recommend ideal levels of around 50-70. If mine were around 25.0, I would not take any supplements. Besides more sunlight in the summers, in recent years I have also tried to eat more vitamin D enriched foods or foods that already have naturally occurring vitamin D. However, none of this made any impact on my readings in my past 7-8 years of blood tests. I finally tried 300-500 IU Vitamin D pills on a regular basis in the past year, but again no difference in my readings. Finally, three months ago, I started taking these higher-dose liquid drops from "Seeking Health". I am guessing that I took them on average 3 days a week, usually around 3 drops per day. My latest Vitamin D blood test completed in late December 2014 showed a reading of 69.0!! Absolutely unbelievable. I doubt that I have ever even remotely approached this reading in my whole life, even when exposed to sunlight 10 hrs a day at the beach in my younger days. So in summary, these drops raised my level from 9.3 to 69.0 in just 3 months (and the results would probably have shown up much sooner if I had taken the second blood test earlier). Moreover, much of this month has been cloudy and rainy where I live, and yet my reading is 69.0! I do not think I have seen any obvious positive health benefits to this success as yet, but I do have peace of mind and intend to take this product for years to come. I am also reducing my dosage and frequency now as I would be happy with vitamin D levels of 25.0 all year round. The ingredients of this product also seem stellar.