contacted country life and nature's life companies

[Guest guest]

Dear Bee and everyone,

I just got Bee's last email with the info about Natural Factors. But

since I had already typed all the following up, I thought I'd send it

anyway in case anyone's interested.

The bottom line is that Natural Factors does seem like the best

choice, as Bee just wrote.

COUNTRY LIFE

http://www.countrylifevitamins.com/moreinfo.cfm?Category=14 & Product_ID=181

Vitamin A 10,000 IU

Vitamin D (as D3) 400 IU

Country Life's nutritionist Flax confirmed that these vitamins

are indeed from cod liver oil, and not synthetic. However, the

soybean oil is basically a filler, and NOT a component of the softgel

capsule. So even if you were to prick the capsule and consume only

the oil, you'd be consuming soybean oil. And she said the soybean oil

IS from GMO soybeans.

Also, I'm wondering if it's okay to get our Vitamin D only in D3 form?

Wouldn't we need other forms?

NATURE'S LIFE

http://www.iherb.com/Nature-s-Life-A-D-10-000-IU-400-IU-100-Softgels/24003?at=0

Vitamin A 25,000 IU

To quote the product information specialist I spoke to over the phone:

" 40% of this is as fish liver oil. 60% is as beta carotene, which is

derived either from sea algae or synthetic. " I asked, " Would the

synthetic be derived from soy? " She replied, " No, it would be

manufactured in a laboratory, not derived from soy. "

Vitamin D 1,000 IU.

Taking this product with 1 TBL Garden of Life Cod Liver Oil would mean

we would get 40,000 IU Vitamin A and 1,600 Vitamin D, which is well

over the amounts Bee suggests we take.

So I'll stick with Natural Factors.