{"id":582837,"date":"2010-05-28T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacknorrisrd.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:14:09","slug":"vegan-d3-doubtful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582837","title":{"rendered":"Vegan D3? Doubtful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, rumors surfaced that there was a vegan vitamin D3. I&#8217;m still occasionally getting questions about it, so I decided to write up what I know. <\/p>\n<p>It appears that these claims have originated with two different brands: MegaFoods and LifeGive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MegaFoods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I could not find anywhere in which MegaFoods is currently claiming that their vitamin D3 is vegan, but it appears that at one time, someone was claiming that it was. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easy-immune-health.com\/megafood-vitamins.html\">here <\/a>for a write-up about how it is <em>not<\/em> vegan:<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>They say that their vitamin d3 is from S. cerevisiae, and technically it is- however, they actually take regular old vitamin d made from sheep lanolin that anyone can buy in stores, and they &#8216;feed&#8217; this vitamin d3 to the yeast in order to &#8216;Biotransform&#8217; the vitamin d3 into what they claim is an effective and bioavailable form of vitamin d3 that is easily &#8216;utilized&#8217; by the human body.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/megafood-vitamins.com\/d-3.html\">their website<\/a>, Mega Foods doesn&#8217;t claim that their vitamin D3 is vegan. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/MEGAFOOD-Vitamin-D-3-1000IU-30\/dp\/B001YISYAU\">page at Amazon.com<\/a> claims that MegaFoods&#8217; vitamin D3 does not come from fish and that it is suitable for vegetarians, which I suppose is technically true if they mean lacto-ovo vegetarians who are willing to use sheep&#8217;s lanolin.<\/p>\n<p>This site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whole-food-vitamins.net\/organic.php?product=MegaFood%20D-3\">Whole Foods Vitamins<\/a>, sells MegaFood&#8217;s Vitamin D3 and explains a bit about it:<\/p>\n<p><em>Vitamin D-3 DailyFoods is formulated with 100% Cold Fusion FoodState nutrients, developed by Durham Research, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s important to know, but now we do. Moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LifeGive Sun D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LifeGive Sun D is being advertised by two companies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upayanaturals.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PRL-110&#038;CartID=1\">UpayaNaturals<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aliveraw.com\/aliveRaw.com\/Store\/pid\/49\/LifeGive-Sun-D.aspx?af=Crazysexywellness&#038;bn=5\">Alive Raw<\/a>, as being vegan vitamin D3. They both say:<\/p>\n<p><em>LifeGive Sun-D offers a superior, naturally occurring vegan source of vitamin D3 with vitamin D precursors from Shiitake mushrooms and rice germ ex-tracts. Sun-D offers supplies [sic] pure and powerful plant source of living and life- supporting vitamin D for preventing nutrient deficiencies, supporting good health and preventing the development of threatening health conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On November 18, 2009, I wrote UpayaNaturals to inquire about their product and never got a response. However, a JackNorrisRD.com reader, who also wrote them last November, got a response from the company saying, &#8220;All the information comes directly from our supplier\u2019s web page.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I could not find any more information about LifeGive &#8211; the company or their Sun D product. <\/p>\n<p>At this time, no one else knows of any way to create vegan D3 and I would say that this casts doubt on whether LifeGive&#8217;s Sun D is truly vegan.<\/p>\n<p>In large, single doses, vitamin D3 may be more effective than D2; but in smaller, sustained doses, D2 appears to be as effective. It might take some time to build up your stores of vitamin D by taking D2. <a href=\"http:\/\/veganhealth.org\/articles\/bones#recvitd\">Here are my recommendations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.jacknorrisrd.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?a=zAo27oBdgcM:EVZG4xDaFQE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.jacknorrisrd.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?a=zAo27oBdgcM:EVZG4xDaFQE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/jacknorrisrdcom\/~4\/zAo27oBdgcM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, rumors surfaced that there was a vegan vitamin D3. I&#8217;m still occasionally getting questions about it, so I decided to write up what I know. It appears that these claims have originated with two different brands: MegaFoods and LifeGive. MegaFoods I could not find anywhere in which MegaFoods is currently claiming that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}