Vitamin K2-MK4 does not last long in the blood stream (roughly four hours), so if using it, doses throughout the day would be best. Also, fat is needed for it to work (fat soluble).
Vitamin K2-MK7 has shown a much reduced benefit on calcium plaque removal of under 10%, but as a form of Vitamin K, it lingers in our bodies for days.
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A short version, please?
Must be an Eliquis commercial
Sum up which K is best. I use mk7
And all lab rats die from cancer. Settled science, you know...
Three years after my aortic valve was replaced, I was told I had severe stenosis due to calcification and would need it replaced again. I was on Coumadin. I started taking Vitamin K2.
I had to see the cardiologist every three months and every time he asked me if I was ready to go to the surgeon. I told him I wanted to wait for my next echo results. He told me that would do me no good. He also told me to stop taking K2. I refused.
A year after the diagnosis I got my next echo and it showed the calcification was gone and the valve was performing normally.
It’s four years later, I still take K2 and my valve is still good. My cardiologist pretends the episode never happened.
Is there a version of this in English?
Book mark. I skimmed it but didn’t see a list of high K vitamin foods. Very interesting article. (Over my head but still interesting :-)
Years ago I used to listen to a radio show in Houston (I forget the name) where the guy talked about these sorts of things and how there were dietary supplements & changes that could be made to reduce arterial plaque, thus staving off heart disease and other arterial & venous disorders.
He’d done it for his father and seriously reduced the need for a CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Graft) and I wondered it it might not also reduce the need for other types of peripheral arterial grafts elsewhere (legs, for example).
The nature of the show always left me wondering if he was on target or if he was just trying to sell his services & bio-identical hormones & such.
I just let my fingers do the walking & found such supplements on Amazon, but I’m curious to know, though, would both forms at the same time be beneficial or “overkill”?
Also, how “high” is a “high dose”? Is there such a thing as too high? Are there any cases of morbidity where taking these kinds of supplements are contraindicated? I think we’d need to read some more articles like this to be sure, yeah?
So many questions!! Thanks for sharing this thought-provoking topic.
We always assumed arterial atherogenic cardiovascular disease was a chronic, indolent process. A few years ago it occurred to me that if it were actually much more rapid in onset, say days or weeks, how would we know? I suspect there will be a lot of evidence in the future to indicate my suspicion is correct. The obvious advantage is that if indolent it would be hard to detect and difficult to treat. But if it is rapid in onset a good understanding of the process could have a very large up side.
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I’ve been on warfarin for the last 30 years with weekly and monthly monitoring of the clotting factor. No problems with it.
I’ve been warned to stay away from green vegies with high V-K as it increases the blood clotting factor.
So be careful with V-K.
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Interesting.
For those who did not catch the Vitamin K thread that referenced this and other studies, it is available here:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3803960/posts?page=1