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Vitamin K2 funnels calcium into bones to strengthen mineral density and fight fractures while it prevents and even removes dangerous arterial calcification.
Along the way it has beneficial effects for almost every major health concern of our time, including diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, infertility, tooth decay and growing healthy children. Taking the paradox out of calcium is just the beginning of what vitamin K2 can do for you.
Although the lipid hypothesis, the notion that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, has been largely debunked in scientific literature,6
The shocking truth is that many of those rich, fatty “sin” foods are abundant in K2, the only vitamin known to prevent and reverse atherosclerosis.
The answer to that lies in the fact that we need vitamin D to benefit from vitamin K2 and vice versa. When vitamin D is lacking, vitamin K2 can't do its job escorting calcium away from arteries and into bones.
In fact, measuring your level of inactive osteocalcin is a handy way to assess K2 deficiency; if K2 is lacking, more useless osteocalcin will be hanging around.
K2-activated MGP doesn't just prevent atherosclerosis, it reverses life-threatening arterial plaque.
healthy” individuals have substantial
But K2, menaquinone, plays a big one.
K2. Menaquinone
Recognizing and appreciating the golden tones of pastured fat
natto.
Another advantage of MK-7 products is that an effective daily dose is approximately 120 micrograms.
Menaquinone-4 versus Menaquinone-7 Menaquinone-4 (MK-4) Menaquinone-7 (MK-7) Source Synthetic Natural (natto) Recommended dosage 45 milligrams (4,500 micrograms) 120 micrograms or more Dosing frequency Divided dose, three times daily Once daily Half-life in body A few hours, hence the need for frequent doses A few days, so a one-a-day dose is fine Health Canada allowable dosage Therapeutic dose of this form exceeds allowable dosage for Canada, suitable for United States only Therapeutic dose within Health Canada limits of 120 micrograms
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.
I recommend 240 micrograms of MK-7 to all of my diabetic, prediabetic and overweight patients.
required so our body can make use of all
