For years I did what most clinicians do. A patient would come in, we would go over the labs and the history, and somewhere in the plan I would write three lines: ubiquinol, vitamin D3, vitamin K2. Three good recommendations. Three bottles. Â
Then I started asking a question I should have asked earlier: are you still taking them?
The honest answers were instructive. The D3, usually yes; it is cheap and one small capsule. The CoQ10, sometimes; it is expensive, and at a real dose it is two capsules, so people quietly drop to one, which is half the dose I wanted. The K2, almost never after the first bottle. It was the third thing on the list, the reorder date never lined up with the others, and when it ran out it stayed out.
None of that is a failure of the patient. It is a failure of the prescription. I was asking people to manage three bottles, three doses, and three reorder dates for what is, physiologically, one decision.
The nutrients belong together
Vitamin D raises calcium absorption and raises production of vitamin K-dependent proteins such as osteocalcin. Those proteins arrive inactive; vitamin K is the cofactor that switches them on. Recommending D3 without K2 is like hiring workers and never handing them tools. And CoQ10, whose tissue levels peak around age twenty and fall from there, is the nutrient my patients most often needed at a dose that a single capsule from the shelf never delivered.
So the question became: can the doses I actually want fit in one capsule? 200 mg of ubiquinol, 5,000 IU of D3, 300 mcg of MK-7. It turns out they can. That capsule is Mega Restore.
What changed
One capsule with breakfast. One bottle every ninety days, or four bottles once a year if you would rather never think about it. The doses are the ones in the studies I cite, not the ones that made the bottle cheaper to manufacture. And the people who used to drop the K2 don't, because there is nothing to drop.
If you take prescription medication, especially a blood thinner, talk with your pharmacist or physician before adding any supplement. That sentence is on every page of this site because I mean it.
Mega Restore is 200 mg ubiquinol, 5,000 IU vitamin D3 and 300 mcg vitamin K2 as MK-7 in one daily capsule. $89.99 for a 90-day supply, free U.S. shipping. See the full label and buy.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
