There’s more than one way to get your vitamins. But the way I’m getting one of mine led to these questions for Carlson Laboratories…

Dear Nutritional Supplementers:

I use Carlson Vitamin D3 drops mainly because I hate swallowing pills. The great thing about drops is they never get stuck in your throat and feel like they’re scraping your Genioglossus Muscle or irritating your Epiglottis on the way down.

I’ve got three questions about your Carlson Vitamin D3 Drops…

1) Sometimes the drops come out in different sizes. How can you tell if you’re getting the right dosage?

2) The bottle says it contains 365 drops. How do you know there are exactly 365 drops in the bottle? One thing I’m really not very happy about is that this year is a leap year. So with an extra day in February, your bottle is going to come up one drop short for the bottle year. Can you please consider marketing bottles containing 366 drops to compensate for leap years?

3) I had a third question, but can’t remember it. Based on that, does Carlson sell any drops that might help with short-term memory loss?

D3ly yours,

“Me”

A Technical Services Representative responded with:

I appreciate you contacting Carlson Laboratories regarding your vitamin D3 concerns and I will answer your requests to the best of my knowledge.

Each drop of liquid vitamin D is the corresponding international unit of the vitamin D. Each (1) drop is the international unit that you are receiving. The bottle dropper is to dispense one drop and that one drop will equal to the international unit(s) that is marked on the box. For example, one drop of a 2000IU of liquid vitamin D will be equivalent to one drop. All of the drops are identical and equivalent to each drop being dispensed by the bottle.

The bottle does contain 365 drops and this has been checked during the filling of the bottle. As far as adding one more drop, I will pass the thought of adding one more drop due to leap years, although there already have been numerous products made with 365 drops and this will have to be considered for future bottles/leap years.

There is a product made by Carlson Laboratories called, “Nutra Support Memory”, although it has been temporarily discontinued. Unfortunately I do not know when it will be available. For an alternative, phosphatidyl serine has been known for its memory characteristics and I will attach a picture of the ingredients included in the “Nutra Support Memory” for your viewing.

I hope this information was beneficial and if you have more concerns, please contact me.

Thank you for your cooperation <my First Name>,

“Them”

Final Thoughts: Thankfully, Carlson Laboratories knows precisely how to verify the number of drops and dosage per drop in each bottle. Thus, this response contains invaluable information for anyone brought up to believe every drop counts. Even still, it’s hard to ensure that a bottle with 365 drops will last a full year since science isn’t taking into consideration the X-number of days you forget to take that vitamin over the course of a year. Not to mention the days you think you took your vitamin, but aren’t completely sure, and take a second drop without remembering you already took a first drop. Then, there are those leap years to consider where you’re guaranteed to come up short by just a drop every time. All of these factors ultimately affect the drop count.

Another drawback to accurately counting vitamin drops is that, unlike pin drops, they can’t be heard. Although, pin drops can also be hard to hear if you attempt to do it simultaneously with hat drops because even at the drop of a hat, sound is affected by the size of the hat and surface you drop it on. Therefore, it’s hard to count on any of these methods when it comes to counting drops, which makes it challenging to get the drop on anything drop-related unless you’re depositing each drop in a bucket, but that isn’t believed to amount to very much anyway. So for now, just stick to evaluating liquid vitamins on a drop-by-drop basis.

While the suggestion of phosphatidyl serine for memory support is also appreciated, the biggest problem with that will be remembering what it’s called.

If you use vitamins and nutritional supplements, check out the offerings from Carlson Laboratories. However, if you have questions related to the accurate use of any product, drop the manufacturer a line and Write The Company.

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