Vitamin K2

And if we eat the animals, we indirectly get the benefits of some of these phytonutrients and the added benefit of just better absorption as well.

The other interesting thing about egg yolks is that they're a good source of vitamin K2, which protects the heart.

It keeps the calcium for building up in the arteries, okay? It drives the calcium into the bone.

So as far as a food that supports your heart, and your cholesterol, eggs are right at the top of the list.

But I just could not find any studies on cultured butter and cholesterol.

But I do know the importance of consuming foods that are fermented or enriched with microbes.

Butter also is a good source of vitamin K2, which is great for the heart if it's grass-fed.

Vitamin K2 was called the X factor in Dr. Price's evaluation on traditional foods and fermented foods.

becoming calcified this usually comes from getting older it can come from inflammation because a person's a diabetic or they consume a lot of carbs and sugar that create fibrosis or for example they're consuming foods that are very inflammatory like the omega-6 fatty acids but there is one additional very important factor that you need to know about it's actually a cause of hardening of the arteries or your arteries becoming very very stiff and that is a vitamin k2 deficiency when you are deficient in vitamin k2 calcium that is floating through your blood doesn't necessarily go anywhere it's not directed in the bones you see vitamin k2 has a lot of benefits to your body but two really important ones we're going to talk about are number one driving the calcium into your bone and making your bones really strong so there's two proteins that vitamin k2 are dependent upon One being responsible for keeping your bones really, really strong and preventing osteoporosis and osteopenia.

And the other is keeping calcium out of the arteries and out of the walls of your arteries.

And so I'm going to put several links down below.

to back up what i'm saying from some really interesting credible studies but vitamin k2 can keep the calcium out of your arteries and in the right place to bones it can even decrease your risk of heart attacks by 50 percent if you have enough in your body but the problem is a lot of people are deficient in vitamin k2 because they don't know where vitamin k2 comes from it comes from the very food that they are told to avoid it comes from food high in saturated fat and cholesterol you can also get it from other fermented foods like nato but typically in the West we don't even know what nato is it's a fermented soybean product that is never served at any restaurants but if you live in Asia you might know more about nato but you get vitamin k2 from fatty foods like meats, organ meats, egg yolks, grass-fed butter, dairy, and yogurt, you're not going to get any K2 from vegetables, fruits, beans, grains, or nuts.

Now, there's a couple interesting little parts of this story I want to tell you about.

One is this.

When you combine vitamin K2 with vitamin D3, you get a greatly improved vascular profile.

And I'm talking about a reduced thickness in the wall of your carotid arteries.

You can also have biofilms in your joints.

Now, vitamin K2.

Vitamin K2 works with vitamin D3.

K2 directs the calcium to go into the bone.

So that way, it works with vitamin D. Vitamin D brings it into the blood.

K2 takes it from the blood into the bone to make your bone really solid.

So if you're lacking vitamin K2, you could potentially start having all sorts of deposits.

And vitamin K2 is in hard cheeses, soft cheeses.

Aged cheese is a healthy protein, healthy fat, and it's a fermented product.

But aged cheese gives you vitamin K2, which keeps the calcium out of the soft tissue, out of the joints, out of the arteries, and in the bone.

Let's talk about number 12, dark chocolate or cacao.

Now, wait a second.

If you take too much, you'll just pee out any extra.

Now, the last one that you may not have ever heard about before, which it looks like is becoming a bigger and bigger deal, is vitamin K2.

And you may have heard about this from some of the other experts that you watch, but more and more, I'm seeing that this is actually quite a big deal.

And there's several different kinds of K2, and you should take the MK4, version of it there's an mk7 and some others but if you'll take 200 micrograms 200 MCGs of the vitamin k2 mk4 once a day that's going to help you to have stronger bones and it's probably a true true statement I heard a guy the other day say that if everybody in America is took a vitamin D and a vitamin k2 supplement starting at about 35 30 35 if they needed it that there would probably be no such thing as osteoporosis in America and that's that plus daily weight-bearing or weight-bearing exercise he would probably be right it probably a very very rare person who would have osteoporosis if they took their vitamin d3 and their vitamin k2 every day if you have any questions about these vitamins I've talked about today please leave a comment down below I try to answer every comment if you're taking a supplement I did not mention then please leave a comment and say hey what about this smart guy should I be taking this or not and we'll we'll discuss that in the comments I love answering questions like that because so often you'll be you'll get on autopilot taking some supplement thinking you need it and really in reality it's either not doing you any good it's wasting your money or worse it's actually could be harming your health there are lots of different opinions about supplements and they're also every one of you guys is unique and so what might be good supplement advice for one of you guys might not necessarily be dangerous for another one but it could be a waste of money and so if you have any questions please please leave them in the comments below and I'll answer every one if you enjoyed this video and want to see more like them please share this on your social media just helps me reach people who otherwise would never hear these messages and just wouldn't know any better Like the other day, we were talking about calcium supplements and how they're completely unnecessary and may actually be harmful for your health.

If people never hear that message, they'll just keep taking the calcium supplement every day and not know any better.

But you can help me educate them by sharing this on your social media.

Now, the other piece of this puzzle that I want to bring up now is there's this one very specific, important nutrient, okay, it's a vitamin, that has this responsibility of keeping the calcium buildup out of the arteries.

Because when you have plaquing, you have inflammation, you have calcium, and you have cholesterol plaques, right? Well, this vitamin, which you may already know, is called vitamin K2.

And its job is to keep the calcium out of the arteries.

It directs the calcium back into the bone.

And if you're deficient in vitamin K2, you could actually build up this calcium in the arteries.

Now, the reason I'm bringing up K2 is because guess what makes vitamin K2? microbes.

Your own gut makes vitamin K2.

It has the ability to convert the vitamin K1 from leafy greens to vitamin K2.

So think about things like sauerkraut or kimchi, things that are traditionally fermented.

These types of foods are generally high in levels of vitamin K2.

And vitamin K2 is important in directing calcium into the hard tissues of the body.

So vitamin K2 will tell calcium to go into the bones and the teeth.

And this is incredibly important for your periodontal health and to prevent against gum recession because when the bone underlying the gums starts to resorb or shrink, that will cause the gum to move down over that bone.

So we want nice, healthy, robust bone that is well supported by minerals like calcium and fermented foods with vitamin K2 are going to help maintain that bone.

I want you to start thinking about what you're feeding your tissues.

How are you feeding your mouth so that nutritionally you're supporting the tissues in your mouth to maintain good gum health and then as a result, good overall dental health.

How Vitamin D Becomes a Hormone, the Three-Organ Pathway and Its Cofactor Dependencies Editorially reviewed by Profse, Georgie P. Akadze, MPH, PhD, GMJ News Desk Moderate Evidence Vitamin D is not technically a vitamin, but a steroid hormone synthesized through a complex seven-step metabolic cascade involving the skin, liver, and kidneys, each requiring specific micronutrient cofactors to function.

This biological pathway illustrates why vitamin D deficiency often correlates with deficiencies in magnesium, vitamin K2, zinc, and vitamin A, a pattern increasingly recognized in clinical practice but frequently overlooked in supplementation protocols.

key takeaways vitamin d3 synthesis begins in skin via uvb exposure or through dietary sources dud3 but remains biologically inactive until metabolized two sequential hydroxylation reactions in liver and kidney convert vitamin d to its active form calcitriol each requiring magnesium as an essential cofactor Vitamin K2, zinc, and vitamin A are required for vitamin D's hormonal signaling.

Deficiency in any blocks the full metabolic chain despite adequate vitamin D levels.

Three organs, skin, liver, and kidneys sequentially convert sunlight-derived 7-dehydrocholesterol into active calcitriol hormone.

This helps explain why some patients remain symptomatic despite biochemically adequate vitamin D levels.

Their VDR cannot transduce the hormonal signal effectively.

Step five, vitamin K2 and calcium trafficking.