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As the only vitamin D3 registered with both the Vegan Society and Vegetarian Society, Vitashine offers a potent and active form of vitamin D for the body—naturally, in the way the body produces vitamin D after being exposed to the sun.
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The importance of vitamin D for radiant health is well known. But if Vitamin D is so difficult to get hold of, how are these Vitamin D supplements made?
Vitamin D supplements are made from either the D2 or D3 form — if you check the label, it should tell you which one has been used. They might look the same in pill form, but they come from very different sources. For Vitamin D3 supplements, the process actually starts with lanolin, a fatty substance secreted by the skin glands of sheep to condition their wool.
It has been used variously by human cultures for thousands of years and today is an ingredient of many skin creams, beauty products and lip balms due to its waterproofing and barrier qualities. But it also provides the chemical precursors for making Vitamin D3. A detergent is then added to extract the crude lanolin. This is then saponified: a process which converts the fatty component into chemicals that can be removed by centrifugation. This is illuminated by ultraviolet light to form Vitamin D3, mimicking the reaction that occurs in our skin.
Certain people, such as vegans, may feel uneasy about using a product that comes from sheep. When mushrooms are exposed to sunlight or UV light, ergosterol converts into vitamin D2 in significant quantities.
I would question any product claiming to have D3 from mushrooms. It is almost certainly D2 and not D3. Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your webpage? My website is in the exact same area of interest as yours and my users would genuinely benefit from some of the information you provide here.
Please let me know if this okay with you. You would have to make requests per article. We can give permission for some articles and not others. However, nearly two decades ago, we theorized that there must be some exceptions to this concept.
One exception was mushrooms that grow on, and derive cholesterol from, animal tissues. The other likely exception was mushrooms that have symbioses, or are commensal with, algae or other cholesterol producing microorganisms. So we investigated a range of likely candidates, and discovered several commercially available mushrooms that actually generate vitamin D3, in addition to D2.
We then fine-tuned the growing parameters to yield more vitamin D3. Unfortunately, as we set out to obtain a patent on the process, we discovered that others had already described the technology, as you can see in the attached research paper.
Today, there are many natural and certified-organic, vegan vitamin D3 producers, some of whom actually use the very species and processes we developed, but could not patent.
Incidentally, some manufacturers derive vegan D3 from marine algae, which is another process we also developed many years ago but could not patent. Tragically, the patent examiners simply would not view the characteristic of vegan to be a tangible and valuable physical differentiator between our processes and resulting materials and previous animal-based technologies.
Even though we could not obtain patents for these groundbreaking achievements, our work in this area established a framework that allowed for the proliferation of wide ranging vegan sources of vitamin D3 available today. Name required.
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