Side by Side Comparison of: Now Foods

five months ago, my vitamin D levels were at 25 ng/mL. I started taking the 2000 iu supplements for a few months but my symptoms barely improved. for the past 2 1/2 months, I've been taking the 5000 iu. I just got a blood test. my levels are now doubled -- 51 ng/mL!

Blood results from my doctor came back with a Vitamin D deficiency, so she recommended a Vitamin D3 supplement. Ever since taking this supplement, I've noticed my skin is MUCH more clear and less oily. After doing some research, turns out that Vitamin D deficiency can cause a host of health issues, including acne. 5000 IU is a fairly high dose, so I take it every other day and it works very well for me. Overall, great product and great value. Will continue to order.

After using these I noticed an immediate improvement in my mood and you get so many for the price. The instructions say just have one every other day so the bottle will last over a year, not bad for the benefits.

This really seems to help with my acne breakouts. I'd learned that low vitamin D levels can lead to breakouts, and I'm generally not one to get much sunlight. I initially took this supplement every other day as directed, but I have since been taking it once a week. Vitamin D is not water soluble, so it's possible to get too much and experience negative side effects. I'm cautious, especially with long-term use.

This was a good buy when you look at the total IU count per pill. Unless you're exposed to an hour's worth of sun per day, you are most likely Vitamin D deficient. How much you should take depends on a lot of factors including age, medications, exercise, health, other sources of Vitamin D, etc. It also depends on which study and recommendations you follow. Recommendations from 400IU to 10,000IU are common. My BIL is a big boy and gets next to no sun whatsoever (programmer). His doctors have him on 15,000IU per day. I take Vitamin D twice a day. About 6000 IU at night and another 3000 IU in the morning. Your intake may very.

This is a must have. It did wonders for my studies. If you don't know, D-3 is basically energy from the Sun. You can get this vitamin yourself from just taking sun. Tho, there are many people that work indoors and cant get outside during daylight hours. So, this is a supplement needed to build sells, to help with memory and many other things like thinning your blood and opening you blood vessels for better flow of the cardinal vascular system (heart) and clearing away cholesterol and crap building up in your blood stream. Then again, you could just EAT MORE GREENS and just stop all the madness of taking so many pills. All pills should be extracted from the plant and in cased in a veggie gel cap

Will know better over the next few weeks. NOW is dependable quality and wanted something natural to help me through the overcast winter months. The very north NorthEast is a tough place in the winter for lack of sun. Was incredibly deficient, according to bloodwork a few years ago, and am hoping this time with a natural alternative to improve my health.

I've been taking these for a week — so far, so good. I know most Americans are deficient in vitamin D. I was also told that it plays a role in balancing feelings/happiness. I've been taking this with Boron, and I feel noticeably better. Fingers crossed it continues to work! I know a week isn't that long, but I'm happy so far. I know Now is a good brand, and I've bought from them before.One heads up: Do NOT let these sit in your mailbox even for a little bit. I picked mine up not long after they were dropped off, and the gel caps were all stuck together. I'm able to pick them apart with a knife, thankfully.

Seems pretty good so far. I take a lot of supplements so it's hard for me to tell what meds have what f affect. Before I was taking another brand my doc gave to me. It was from designs for health. I honestly cannot tell a difference between this and that. Take it for what it's worth.

These are a great price and seem to be of high quality.I noticed that after taking 1 a day for a while I had trouble sleeping at night. I have since stopped taking them and had my levels tested and they were fine. I think I would only start again if I had reason to.I have heard that Vitamin D3 can cause sleeping problems at night. Ironically, I have also heard that deficiency in Vitamin D3 can also cause sleeping problems. So I guess there can be too much of a good thing.

I was instructed to take these by my doctor but to be honest, I don't think I'd know if it works unless I get more blood tests done, which is sooo not happening (I'm not a fan of needles >w< haha)The product itself is what it is though so all I can do is really assume it contains all the good stuff it says it does. Otherwise, the 'pills' look like little tiny gel beads and go down smoothly with an adequate amount of water (normal swallowing amount works just fine), and the only negative-ish comment I have about it is that it has a bit of a 'fishy' smell if you ever take a whiff of it. It doesn't TASTE like fish (though I've never exactly bit the pill apart; only swallowed), but if you just smell it with all the beads in the container, they compound to equate fish-stank.

Since you do not feel vitamin D in your system it's impossible to rate whether or not there's actually any vitamin D in these softgels. However the manufacturer is fairly reputable and I believe that I'm getting a proper dose of vitamin D. But what I do not understand is why they do not always include vitamin K2 with vitamin D3-which is very important to its effectiveness according to the newest research.

Package is nice and compact but not sure it is helping me nor I know how many softgels I should take everyday. I don't see any difference.

Who knows if this works or not. It's an indispensable element needed for proper cellular and systems function

It is there if you need it. I stopped taking it because it just seems like an unnatural amount of vitamin D

My doctor recommended I take vitamin D after finding that I was low in my bloodwork. I can't honestly say that I have felt any physical change therefore I cannot advocate for it.

I trust the NOW brand and buy many of their products. My D-3 level has not gone up adequately with pills and capsules so I have started using the spray (under tongue) type, on the recommendation of my functional physician.

The gels were all stuck together inside - took a good bit of work and many casualties to get them all broken up and usable.Only happened once (ordered these several times), but sometimes cheaper isn't always better.

Check out 36:30 in the new NYTimes/FRONTLINE documentary "Supplements and Safety" (free online). They interview a woman doing the biggest set of randomized clinical trials ever on Vitamin D supplements. While the full results won't come in until 2017, she recommended no more than 4,000 IU per day and explicitly cautioned against 5,000 and 10,000 a day based on what they're seeing so far, which is a U shaped curve where getting too much is just as bad as not enough. Someone in the Q/A on this page even mentioned they take this only every other day to prevent toxicity. That said, I talked to a relative who worked in this industry, and he said this brand is better than the quality you'll get at places like Walgreens or Wal Mart. So maybe downgrade to one of their other sizes.

This product was received in a less than good condition.The softgels were all stuck together in one " glob ".Extremely difficult to get them apart. Would NOT order again!

Pretty strong stuff, my blood test showed a level of D-3 that was well beyond the acceptable range. 2000 IU is probably a better number to purchase.

Years ago, I used to feel an immediate improvement when I took these pills. Now I feel no different. I wonder if they changed the product and made it inferior. I'm going to try a different brand of D3.

Not sure why, but I couldn't use this product after about the first 10 days....My doctor recommended I try taking vitamin D3 for muscle pain since my levels are very low. This product actually made my pain worse and nauseated me....I stopped taking it for a couple of weeks and tried again, and again about 10 day into it, I had the same results.

I received a bottle of 140 capsules, 10,000 IU, instead of 240 5,000 IU with no message indicating the substitution. Not happy with the switch.

While it may be rated as 5,000 IU it does not digest and metabolize well. I was on another brand and could not find it and tried this and my Vitamin D3 level dropped to lower levels than before I was taking any. Clearly these are ineffective.

Arrived with outer seal mangled. I removed that to see if the inner seal was intact. It was not. Money down the drain.

I paid $ 18.46 for three bottles and only received one.Please charge me two bottles or return the remaining amountNOW Foods Vitamin D3 5000 Iu (360 (120X3))NOW Foods Vitamin D3 5000 Iu (360 (120X3))

tore my stomach all to pieces

First time I purchased, this was a great buy. However this time, I took a good look at vitamins and appears to be some kind of dark spot in all of them as if "mold" possibly. Was not in prior vitamins purchased. Very disappointed and looks as though cannot return as past 30 day mark. Sadly these were a backup and opened too late to return. Buyers beware. Check product before consumption.

Don't know if its good or bad.Bad rating is for they put a label ON TOP of the instructions that don't come off.Seems deceptive.