In this highly requested video, Dr. Brown answers commonly asked questions about Vitamin K from our Facebook community.
Some of the commonly asked questions are:
〰️In what way does Vitamin K help bone strengthening?
〰️How much Vitamin K should I take?
〰️What are the best forms of Vitamin K?
〰️When should I take Vitamin K?
〰️Which vitamins should I or should I not take Vitamin K with?
〰️What are the food forms of Vitamin K?
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Transcripts:
hi everyone I'm dr. Susan brown director
of the Center for better bones and I
want to welcome everyone to our chat
we're gonna have basically for our
Facebook community you've been asking me
a lot of questions about vitamin K
vitamin K is extremely important in our
better bones better body program so I
want to take some time to answer your
questions about vitamin K you know many
years ago the the people who are
researching vitamin K actually came to
my office to discuss this with me
because I'd been I'd been talking in my
blogs and other publications about the
importance of vitamin K this was two
decades ago before I was known very well
and we have been so impressed with
vitamin K mk7 vitamin k2 and as an
anthropologist I realized that just like
we had much more magnesium much more
fiber much more protein much more
everything in our early diets as we
evolved we certainly had much more
vitamin K so the important thing to remember that
a substance is called a vitamin when you
need it for life it's the kind of thing
if you don't take it you die and this
substance we call vitamin K is a
substance that is essential for life in
that it allows for blood clotting it's a
kind of a technical thing how we would
all blade to death bleed to death with
any little cut if the blood didn't clot
so vitamin K activates certain enzymes
certain proteins that allow the body to
do the clotting function to keep the
blood stable it has many other functions
but that's one of the main functions of
vitamin K it also works to activate
other proteins proteins for example if
that carboxylate osteocalcin osteocalcin
is the main bone protein produced by
osteoblasts those bone building cells
that actually stimulates the building of
new bone so vitamin K also works by
signaling or activating this osteocalcin
protein and then we also know that it
activates GLA matrix another compound in
the vessels that actually is of one of
the most important turnoff switches to
arterial calcification did you ever
wonder why do we calcify our teeth and
our bones yet we don't calcify our
arteries one reason is because vitamin K
is the signaling compound that helps to
turn off this arterial calcification
there's many many studies on the
different forms of vitamin K and maybe
this is a good point to mention that of
course there's k1 which is produced by
plants all the green plants produce k1
and that's where you can get a lot of k1
k1 is sufficient to cause clotting and
it helps bone some but nothing like the
forms of vitamin K which are the vitamin
k2 forms did the state difference in k1
and k2 is a chemical difference k1 is
called phenyl alanine and k2 are
menaquinone so vitamin k2 are produced by bacteria
so the plants produce vitamin k1 we eat
the plants we get that vitamin k the
animals in their guts in the and the
bacteria in the world when produce
vitamin k2 there's a couple of many
forms of vitamin k2 actually but the
ones we pay most attention to the ones
that have been studied for for bone our
mk7 which is menaquinone 7 and the 7 has
to do with the the chemical chain
menaquinone 7 which is a long-chain
vitamin k2 and then by mk4 which is
Menna tetra known and that is another
form of type 2 vitamin k2 mk7 comes from
food fermented food and this is where we
get back to the bone health story and
i'm going to talk about MK 4 in just a
minute but MK 7 was discovered when they
realized that japanese populations in
certain parts of the country ate
