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KingSweyn on scored.co
1 year ago10 points(+0/-0/+10Score on mirror)4 children
Vitamin K2 is the difference between milk being a superfood and it being a health risk. Vitamin D gets calcium into your bloodstream, but K2 removes it from arterial plaque and puts it in your bones.
Your body needs calcium, to build and maintain strong bones. K2 is what takes the calcium in your blood and pushes it into the bones. Without the k2, plaque builds up on your blood vessels increasing blood pressure and if it closes off the wrong thing you die.
VitD also helps absorb K2 into your body. I'm not sure what the other guy said but D and k2 are often sold together for this reason.
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
[Cleveland Clinic page on K2](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/vitamin-k2).
Highlights:
Vitamin K can help keep your blood not too thick and not too thin. In the words of Goldilocks, it keeps your blood just right.
Vitamin K helps activate a protein called osteocalcin, which binds to calcium to build bones. That makes vitamin K an essential component of bone health.
...vitamin K helps keeps your heart healthy. That’s because of the way it acts to clear out calcium from your blood vessels.
When calcium builds up in your body, it can lead to hardening (or calcification) of your tissues, organs and blood vessels. Calcium deposits in your arteries can lead to high blood pressure, kidney disease and more.
The K2 must be naturally sourced. If it's synthetic, it will do more harm than good. It should use the term "*trans*" menaquinone -7 or tell you what food it is sourced from (*natto*).
Your body needs calcium, to build and maintain strong bones. K2 is what takes the calcium in your blood and pushes it into the bones. Without the k2, plaque builds up on your blood vessels increasing blood pressure and if it closes off the wrong thing you die.
VitD also helps absorb K2 into your body. I'm not sure what the other guy said but D and k2 are often sold together for this reason.
Highlights:
Vitamin K can help keep your blood not too thick and not too thin. In the words of Goldilocks, it keeps your blood just right.
Vitamin K helps activate a protein called osteocalcin, which binds to calcium to build bones. That makes vitamin K an essential component of bone health.
...vitamin K helps keeps your heart healthy. That’s because of the way it acts to clear out calcium from your blood vessels.
When calcium builds up in your body, it can lead to hardening (or calcification) of your tissues, organs and blood vessels. Calcium deposits in your arteries can lead to high blood pressure, kidney disease and more.
K K K, KKK