Your vitamin D is doing half a job
About a third of your bone is collagen, not mineral. Vitamin D3 and K2 don't build collagen. Koru Protect gives your bones all four nutrients they are made from, in two capsules a day.
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Whether you take something already or nothing at all
Some people we talk to are already taking something for their bones. A vitamin D capsule from the pharmacy. The funded monthly one. Or, if they've read a little further, a D3 + K2 combination. Plenty are taking nothing at all, and are not sure where to start.
If you already take vitamin D, that's a good start. It helps your body absorb calcium, and vitamin K2 helps direct that calcium to your bones rather than leaving it floating around. If you take nothing yet, those are the first two of four.
Here is the part almost nobody mentions on the label. Calcium needs something to hold on to.
Bone isn't a lump of mineral. It's a living framework of collagen, a protein scaffold, with mineral packed into it. Roughly two-thirds mineral, one-third scaffold. Your body rebuilds that scaffold constantly, and to do it, it needs two nutrients that no D3 capsule and no D3 + K2 combination contains: vitamin C and zinc.
Take the scaffold away and there is nowhere for the calcium to go.
"D3 gets the calcium in. K2 tells it where to go. Vitamin C and zinc build the framework it's going to. Miss the last two and you've only done half the job."
September is when it matters most
Here in New Zealand, vitamin D levels follow the sun. They climb through summer and drain away over winter. By September most of us are near the lowest point of the year, lower than in June, because the stores built up last summer are gone and spring sunshine hasn't topped them back up yet.
So the month you're most likely to feel like easing off the vitamin D is the month your body has the least of it.
Vitamin D stores in New Zealand adults are usually lowest in late winter and early spring.
We make this one ourselves
Koru Nutrition is a family New Zealand company based in Rangiora, North Canterbury. We formulate our products and make them in our own facility rather than buying in a generic formula and putting a label on it.
That matters with Koru Protect, because the formula is built around how bone is actually put together, not around what's cheapest to put in a capsule. And like everything we make, it's built for how your body works after 55. We absorb less of what we swallow as we get older, so we choose forms the body can take up rather than the cheapest version of each nutrient. You may already know us from Koru Joint or Koru FX. Koru Protect is made in the same place, by the same people.
Four nutrients. One job each.
Amounts per two-capsule daily serve, as declared on the label.
Vitamin D3
Supports your body's absorption of calcium from food. The same 1,000 IU a day you'd get from a good single-ingredient vitamin D, in the D3 form your skin makes from sunlight.
Vitamin K2
Supports the normal process that directs calcium to bone. MK-7 is the longer-acting form of K2, so a daily dose keeps working between capsules.
Vitamin C
Supports normal collagen formation, the protein framework that makes up about a third of your bone. Also supports normal immune function, which is how Koru Protect earned its name.
Zinc
Supports bone health and normal immune function. Zinc is a cofactor for the enzymes involved in building bone.
Vitamin D also supports normal muscle function. Always read the label and take as directed. Supplementary to a balanced diet. View the full label
The dose on the label isn't the whole story
After 55 your body absorbs less of what you swallow. Stomach acid drops, digestion slows, and a nutrient in the wrong form can pass straight through. So with Koru Protect, as with every Koru product, we chose each form for absorption first.
You won't find vitamin C, zinc or a fat carrier in the D3 + K2 combinations on the pharmacy shelf. You'll find all three here.
What's in yours?
Solo vitamin D covers one of the four. A D3 + K2 combination covers two. Koru Protect covers all four.
1,000 IU a day is the amount every product in this table gives you. The difference is the rows beneath it.
Your joints hang on your bones
Joinery only holds if the foundation does.
If you take Koru Joint or use Koru FX
You're already looking after the cartilage, the lubrication and the soft tissue. Koru Protect looks after the structure all of that is attached to.
Think of it as the foundation under the house. Koru Joint is the joinery. Koru Protect is what the joinery is fixed to. Two capsules of Protect before breakfast sit alongside your Koru Joint.
If you take Koru Advanced Collagen
Collagen can't be made without vitamin C. You're giving your body the building blocks; vitamin C and zinc are what it uses to assemble them.
Koru Protect supplies both, plus the D3 and K2 your bones need to put the finished product to work.
Three steps
Choose your supply
One bottle to try it, or two bottles for the best price per day. Ships from Rangiora.
Two capsules, 30 minutes before a meal
That's your full day's D3, K2, vitamin C and zinc. Keep the bottle by the kettle.
Give it two months
Bones are built slowly, so judge it over the full two months. That's what the two-bottle pack is for.
Choose your Koru Protect
GUARANTEE
Ships from Rangiora within one business day. Every order carries the 60-day money-back guarantee. If it's not for you, ring 0800 99 99 80 (Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm) and we refund you, empty bottles included.
What customers say
Verbatim from verified Koru Protect reviews and recorded customer calls. First names only.
"I was taking vitamin C, D and zinc but didn't realize I should be taking vitamin K."
"I am extremely happy with Koru Protect it has all the vitamins and minerals I want all wrapped into the one capsule."
"Great product. Vitamin C, K and D all together in one easy supplement."
"The Protect has everything I want in it. That's what I found interesting, it had what I wanted: the vitamin D, the zinc, the vitamin C, which I was taking most of anyway over the winter."
"I like the fact that you're local and good service, and they seem to do what they say they do. The ingredients in yours is what appealed."
"Great balance with the vit. D, helps with general well being, highly recommend."
The cost of half a job
Nothing dramatic happens if you keep taking solo vitamin D. It'll keep doing its one job.
But you'll keep spending money every month on a capsule that supports one of the four things your bones need, and leaving the other three to chance. And you'll be doing it through the one time of year, right now, when your levels are lowest.
For about a dollar a day, you can cover all four.
Questions people ask before they start
I already take the monthly vitamin D capsule from my doctor. Can I take this as well? +
If you've been prescribed vitamin D, talk to your pharmacist or doctor before adding Koru Protect. They'll tell you whether to take both or swap.
I take warfarin or another blood thinner. +
Koru Protect contains vitamin K2, and the label says not to take it if you are currently taking blood-thinning medication. Please talk to your doctor first.
Can I take it with Koru Joint or Koru Advanced Magnesium? +
Yes. Koru Advanced Magnesium carries 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 of its own, so the two together give you 2,000 IU a day, which stays inside the recommended upper limit for adults. If you have any concerns, ask your pharmacist.
Why two capsules rather than one? +
Because we've put four nutrients in at meaningful amounts, close to a gram of vitamin C alone, rather than two nutrients in a one-a-day. Two capsules before a meal is the trade-off.
Why only 1,000 IU of vitamin D? +
That's the most a dietary supplement is permitted to contain in New Zealand. Koru Protect gives you the full amount, then adds the three nutrients most vitamin D products leave out.
Isn't Koru Protect an immunity product? +
It's both. Vitamin C, zinc and vitamin D all support normal immune function, which is why it's been popular through winter. The same four nutrients are what bone is built from, which is why it makes sense year round.
Why is there phosphatidylcholine in it? +
Vitamin D3 and K2 are fat-soluble. They need fat to be absorbed, which is why most vitamin D products are oil-filled softgels. Koru Protect is a capsule, so we include phosphatidylcholine, a natural phospholipid, to give the D3 and K2 something to disperse with.
Is it made in New Zealand? +
Yes. Formulated and made in our own facility at 5 Kingsford Smith Drive, Rangiora, North Canterbury. Made in a facility that also processes fish and crustacean ingredients. Gelatine capsule.
What if it's not for me? +
Ring 0800 99 99 80 within 60 days, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, and our Rangiora team will refund you, empty bottles included. No forms, no returns.
Give your bones all four
Your vitamin D isn't wrong. It's just not finished. Two capsules before breakfast, and the D3, K2, vitamin C and zinc your bones are built from are covered.
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