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March 17 - March 18, 2021
heart disease, caused by a deadly accumulation of calcium in arteries, is the number one killer of both women and men in North America.
Over time, osteoporosis can rob you of your posture—leading to a loss of height of as much as six inches—
Vitamin D increases the absorption of calcium from the intestines, which is a good thing for bone health.
Arterial calcification is really a process of ossification—bone building.
MGP is now being used as a biochemical marker for arterial calcification.
Blood tests that measure your level of active versus inactive MGP can accurately predict how much calcium plaque you have.
toxic effect on those who ate them? Food that could be transported long distances without spoiling: white flour, white sugar, white rice, vegetable fats, canned goods and other processed, refined, devitalized fare. In
Price found that the diets of healthy traditional people contained at least four times more minerals and water-soluble vitamins than the standard American diet of the 1930s.
What was more surprising is that the traditional fare provided at least 10 times more fat-soluble vitamins than the average industrialized diet.
as studies have shown, humans can develop a K2 deficiency in as little as seven days on a vitamin K–deficient diet,
confined feeding operations or CFOs—
Six weeks of grain feeding was not enough to completely remove the yellow tone to satisfy the Japanese market, but it did deplete the beta-carotene content (and presumably the vitamin K2 and omega-3 content) by about 97 percent.
fat. Likewise, the terms “mono-glycerides” and “di-glycerides” should also tip you off to the presence of Frankenfat in the food.
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The coronary artery calcium score, also called cardiac calcium score or just calcium score, is a special type of X-ray that checks for the buildup of calcium in the coronary arteries; Chapter 6 tells you what you need to know.
The best food sources of heart-healthy menaquinone are natto and egg yolks, butter and fat from grass-fed animals.
cardiac mortality roughly follows annual vitamin D levels but precisely follows vitamin K2 levels.
It is important to note that, although vitamin D is crucial for calcium absorption, it has no effect on what happens to calcium once it is absorbed. That role belongs to K2.
An under-carboxylated osteocalcin test will tell you if you should be taking more K2 to treat it.
it is the high concentration of MGP that has not been activated that contributes to wrinkles.44
The second highest concentration of vitamin K2 in the body is in the pancreas,
Only one week of vitamin K2 supplementation in healthy, nondiabetic trial participants significantly reduces their two-hour postmeal insulin production by half.4
Recent research from Japan shows that vitamin K2 status is inversely related to insulin-resistant diabetes.
I recommend 240 micrograms of MK-7 to all of my diabetic, prediabetic and overweight patients.
The brain contains one of the highest concentrations of vitamin K2 in the body after the pancreas, salivary glands and sternum,
cheese may be your secret weapon in the war against cancer.
break out the Brie.
Many kinds of malignant tumors, including prostate and breast cancer, produce the vitamin K2–dependent matrix gla protein (MGP).27
The most surprising finding is that gum disease is a stronger indicator of total mortality risk (death from any cause) than coronary artery disease.
Scientific trials use either osteocalcin or MGP (matrix gla protein) carboxylation as a marker for K2 status.
In addition to building bone density, osteocalcin acts as a hormone. It causes insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas to release more insulin, and at the same time directs fat cells to release the hormone adiponectin, which increases sensitivity to insulin.
Osteocalcin also affects male fertility by enhancing the synthesis of testosterone, which boosts sperm production.
An analysis of the various available methods for determining vitamin K status concluded that measuring ucOC and expressing that finding as a ratio or percent of total osteocalcin is the most accurate way to proceed.2
ucOC
Remember, the more undercarboxylated osteocalcin you have, the more deficient you are in K2,
The osteocalcin test is not the same as the undercarboxylated osteocalcin test, and it won't measure your vitamin K2 status.
Osteocalcin testing measures only how much of this vitamin K2–dependent protein is present in the blood, not how much of it has been activated by K2.
Just focus on a diet that includes grass-fed foods, fermented dairy products and natto, or take a K2 supplement if your daily diet is lacking menaquinone-rich foods.
Dual-emission X-ray absorptiometry (DXA or DEXA) is the most common test for measuring bone mineral density.
Cathelicidins, the natural antibiotic agents whose production is powerfully boosted by vitamin D, effectively kill off C. pneumoniae.
If the amount of K2-dependent proteins stimulated by taking D exceeds the supply of K2, the Calcium Paradox sets in. Vitamin D accelerates the calcifications seen with vitamin K2 deficiency.
Whole grains are an excellent source of vitamin E if they are eaten within a day or two of grinding,
In the last century we have achieved unimaginable advances in the realms of science and technology, yet we still can't figure out what to have for dinner.
“100 percent whole wheat.” Well, what is legally allowed to pass for “whole” wheat can consist of plain old refined white flour (the bad stuff) to which had been added back as little as 30 percent of the original bran.
Phytic acid accomplishes this feat by locking down minerals like zinc, iron, calcium and magnesium. Phytic acid makes these minerals unavailable for absorption.
The traditional long rising times of sourdough bread, really a form of cultured grain, also disable the phytic acid.
