Vitamin K2

A couple other things that I recommend doing that I've been, uh, taking as well.

Vitamin K2 is a good supplement that I was recommended by, um, like a nutritionist, uh, about six months ago, that is very good for bone health and bone density.

I take that along with a calcium supplement.

But I was told by a sports doctor who helped me out with my previous stress fracture, which by the way had absolutely nothing to do with dieting, I actually was gaining weight for the previous nine months before the stress fracture.

I'm not convinced that there's any good evidence that people should be doing that outside of very specific clinical indications.

What about vitamin K2?

This is a popular one.

But yeah, and I'm really interested to hear both of your thoughts.

So there's a, depends on which outcome you're looking at.

But the main question is about calcification in the arteries.

and the idea that vitamin K2 reduces calcium in your arteries.

I think it's based on essentially a misconception, the idea that reducing calcium is necessarily a good thing, but reducing calcium doesn't, reduce your risk of heart disease.

Very important.

Vitamin K2, of course, helps keep calcium out of your arteries.

Ironically, too, just a little side note, statins don't just block your cholesterol.

They shut off your ability to make CoQ10 and vitamin K2.

Vitamin K2 is a weird one because...

It's a vitamin, but your body can also make a little bit of it.

And so that's unusual for vitamins.

Now, with 2000 units of vitamin D a day, it's probably OK.

But the other one that people are often short of that goes with vitamin D is vitamin K2.

I personally take, well, I don't take vitamin D in summer now because I get some summer when I'm out digging the allotment.

But the vitamin K2 I take.

Now, the reason I take the vitamin K2 is.

is because we don't get many fermented foods.

So this comes from bacterial fermentation.

So a lot of us are short of the vitamin D because we don't get enough sun.

What was it?

It is vitamin K2.

And the physiological function of vitamin K2 in the human body is nothing short of miraculous when it comes to calcium management.

Really?

Yeah.

Vitamin K2 activates specific proteins such as osteocalcin and matrix GLA protein.

These proteins act as biological traffic cops.

Traffic cops for calcium.

But in general, vitamin D I recommend D3, vitamin D3, combined with a little bit of K2.

Vitamin K2 helps the D do its job more effectively and put the calcium into your bones where it's most needed.

But vitamin D is increasingly recognized as being a little bit like a hormone as well.

It can be good for your immune system and good for...

That's surprising that bleeding did not shoot up.

And the overall point was there's an advantage even at this lower risk people to thin the blood and avoid that clot in the heart so more good news okay and one final i believe final yep short topic that comes up this now the third study looking at vitamin k2 and calcification published in circulation reported at the european society of cardiology august 28 2026 this is called vitamin k2 and d3 supplementation in patients with severe coronary artery calcification the dan code study d-a-n-c-o-d-e 400 patients calcium score over 400 assigned to placebo or a combination of vitamin K2, 720 micrograms a day, that's a highish dose, and vitamin D3, 1,000 IU a day, or placebo for two years.

They had a baseline calcium score and they had a follow-up calcium score.

There were 398 participants age 71, 30% women, and out of the 398, 143 also had a complete coronary CT angiogram with plaque analysis, basically and clearly.

What they find, the group on vitamin K2 had a slower increase.

They all increased, but they had a slower increase in their calcium score at follow-up, which again, I believe was at two years.

Does that matter? We don't know.

This study did not report if a slower increase in your calcium score matters.

Hawthorne Berry is a very good old Chinese medicine, traditional cardiovascular tonic that's out there.

Vitamin K2.

Vitamin K2 is, it helps with the calcium that's within the, in the arteries itself.

Remember D3K2 magnesium.

Why we push that so hard is they all work together.

to make sure that we regulate and control calcium absorption as best we can, because we don't want our arteries to get clogged up with this extra excess calcium, okay? So that's what vitamin K2 could be a huge one.

Okay, T3, and the T3 supplies the lungs, bronchial tubes, pleura, and chest.

So what would we do for this? would be nutritional support like vitamin C, N-acetylcysteine for mucus thinning and lung support.

MK4 or MK7.

Now, I don't want to get into the weeds too much, guys, and complicate life, okay? So, vitamin K2, think about it, is in the

animal kingdom, mostly.

K1 is plants,

That gives me a migraine.

Okay.

But vitamin K2, and we teach this all the time.

Why is it important? Because it takes calcium and