Vitamin K2 Reverses Artery Hardening by 40%

Blood Journal/Rejuvenation Science ^ | 2007 | L.J. Schurgers, H.M.H. Spronk, B.A.M. Soute, P.M. Schiffers, J.G.R. DeMey, and C. Vermeer.

[dp0622]

How do you find time to take the 482 supplements and vitamins you take a day? :-)

after a while I guess one has to narrow it down to a dozen or less

[lee martell]

I continue to make that discovery.

I’ll have to see how this Special K vitamin reacts on different age groups, different health conditions, before I experiment with it.

[Labyrinthos]

A high-dose vitamin K supplement reduced calcium precipitates associated with hardening of the arteries by 37 percent in rats...

But what is the effect upon conservatives?

[BiteYourSelf]

What the... Are they saying warfarin causes Harding of the arteries.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I take K2 and D3 every day. Have for three+ years. They work in conjunction. Takes calcium out of the places it should not be (arteries, brain, tooth tartar, kidneys, etc.) and puts it back where it belongs (into the bones and teeth). My dentist comments on cleanings on the absence of tartar build-up.

[ConservativeMind]

You brought up a great point, so I just posted another high-level study write up, here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3882048/posts

[ConservativeMind]

Yes, this has been known for a long time, unfortunately.

[ConservativeMind]

THIS! You saved yourself!

I just put up another thread describing the need to move towards incremental Vitamin K use for people such as yourself.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3882048/posts

[nikos1121]

2007?

[BiteYourSelf]

Well dang.

[ConservativeMind]

You ask a very relevant question.

I try things to both help myself and provide useful insight to others. We only check new items which studies of some sort. The studies do not need to be rigorous, but show promise, and the substances being reviewed should not be inherently harmful.

I do trim supplements from what we take, but our current amount is higher than normal now, due to trying to address an unusual health issue with my wife.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

K2 for the heart, B complex for the nerves, calcium (with d3, magnesium and zinc) for the bones, osteobiflex for the joints.

We also take a multi to fill in any gaps.

So not that many.

Mostly it is just eating healthy.

[Red Badger]

Good news!..........for Rats..................

[ConservativeMind]

Here’s the thing, usually soft plaques are created—these don’t show up on X-rays. Later, calcium tends to get powdered over those, making them as inflexible as bone, but not anchored like bone in our bodies, because they are hard films anchored on soft tissues, rather than soft tissues anchored on bone, as our bodies are structured. Chunks of calcium (“rock”) can break off as well as the messy foam cell mixture making up the soft plaque.

Heart attacks and strokes are the results.

[Mount Athos]

I have focused my interest on K2, been reading up on food sources.

K2 exists as K2-MK4 through MK13. The higher the MK number the longer it lasts in your system and the less you need.
So MK4 is the least interesting K2 to me.

Traditional Cheeses, full fat yogurt & kefir have good amounts of some of the higher MKs. Brie, blue, and all sorts of hard cheeses especially.

Nonfat milk products do not have K2, and reduced fat has very little.

Grass/pasture fed milk meat and eggs have far more K2 if you can find them.

K2 in milk products:
https://academic.oup.com/cdn/article/1/6/e000638/4558638

I have been making greek yogurt and kefir at home, now trying blue cheese.
Greek yogurt is really easy with a crock pot and thermometer

[Tennessee Conservative]

Yes, as soon as I hit Post I decided to go look so I replied to self to correct it. I have an irregular heartbeat when I get stressed but it’s not Afib. The doctor has me on baby aspirin to make sure I don’t get a clot when it’s irregular so I was concerned K2 might not be good. Everything I read said it would be fine so I’m trying it.

[Salamander]

He’s on blood thinners of some sort plus a baby aspirin every day.

He bleeds a lot with little cuts so probably bad idea.

:(

[mad_as_he$$]

bkmk

[catnipman]

this is one supplement that i really believe in because there’s a ton of legitimate research punished on pubmed.gov regarding vitamin K2 MK-7 and it’s role in keeping calcium in the bones and out of the tissues. there’s actually recommendations that people who have to take warfarin should take K2 MK-7 to counter the effect of warfarin leaching calcium from the bones into the tissues, thus providing the mechanism as to why chronic warfarin greatly increases the probability of a coronary infarct ...

i take 360 mcg daily of the Jarrow brand ... as best as i can determine K2 MK-7 does not impact clotting one way or the other ... for sure, i bleed like a stuck pig for a lengthy period of time for any minor wound (and bruise like crazy) because i take both plavix and aspirin daily ...

[catnipman]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3882010/posts?page=1#39