Vitamin D3 10K UI available at local Walgreens 2 for 1 Sale

Just FYI -- If you need to take dry Vitamin D3, Walgreens stocks Natrol 10K UI Vitamin D3 tablets in their stores and has it online. It is regularly 9.99 for 60 tablets, but right now they are having 2 for 1 sale. I'm going to head over to my local Walgreens and pick some up. 

BTW, not all Vitamin D3 you find at the local drug store is equal. If you have had a malabsorbtive procedure you can't absorb it using the gel caps and need the dry, tablet version. Here is the URL the online information for this product so that you can order online or know what to look for if you go into your local store. http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/natrol-vitamin-d3-10%2c000- iu-dietary-supplement-tablets/ID=prod6063891-product

thanks for the heads up. i just bought a bottle this week, but for that price I can afford to stock up

I responded on the DS board and did  not get a response, so I'll try, here.


THE FACT THAT SOMEONE IS A GROUP LEADER OF SOME KIND DOES NOT IN ANY WAY INDICATE THAT THEY KNOW WHAT VITMAINS WE NEED AND EVEN IF THERE IS A GOOD DEAL OUT THERE.  IT JUST MEANS THAT THEY ARE GROUP LEADERS.


Wow...it's hard to know where to start.  The link had a photo of a gelcap Vitamin D.  Malabsorbers--especially DSers--do not absorb oil.  Then, the info in the blurb from Walgreens was for Vitamin B.  So nothing made any sense.  And that was yesterday.

Today, the only Natrol Vitamin D that looks like it MIGHT be something we could use is there "quick dissolve" product.  And it's on sale, so at 5-cents a pill, it sounds like a good deal, until you notice that it's 2,000 IUs for that $4.49....and that, right now, I'd need to take about 50 to 75 tablets every day. 

That means this "bargain" would cost me over $100/month for just Vitamin D.  Right now, I'm paying well under $20/month for that.

Maybe someone with "calculator" in her name is more likely to want to run the numbers...but really.  THIS is how people decide that we take hundreds of vitamins every day and spend hundreds a month on them.  Bad, bad info.

As I'm the one who showed this to Barb, let me elucidate.

This is a dry d3 tablet of 10,000 iu each. I can't speak to any previous photo or post, but this Natrol product is legit.

It is not 2k, and is not an oil-capsule. I take it.

Andrea, where do you get that this is Dry? It doesn't say that anywhere, either on the bottle, or in the product description (I went elsewhere on the net for that since Walgreens is describing Vit B). It doesn't say water-miscible either. So what makes you think it's the dry version?

 FWIW, you can get this same thing on Amazon for $6. IF you don't need dry D.

I'm stuck in an airport in Nashville heading to NOLA, but when I get home ill verify it is lanolin, which is what dry D is made from.

Uh, lanolin is WAX, about as un-dry and greasy as you can get.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanolin

Dry D3 is compounded with water-soluble encapsulating agents.  This is from Bio-Tech's statement in response to my question about it (obviously, they are not disclosing the exact formulation, which is proprietary):

"In select formulas, we utilize water-soluble preparations of fat-soluble vitamins. These preparations are produced by coating the pure vitamin with water-soluble, pharmaceutical-grade materials."

So, somebody is wrong here.

Call Michelle. Biotech makes theirs from lanolin according to her. So does Calcet and BA.

I believe you are misunderstanding - or I am misunderstanding you.

Vitamin D3 is made by irradiating lanolin, which converts the precursor of D3 present in the "sheep grease" into D3.  Then the D3 is extracted from the rest of the grease.  How it is formulated is the next step.  I presume the dry D3 is formulated with water soluble agents.

I skipped the explanation. You assumed I didn't know.