The Unique Benefits of Using Vitamin D and K2 Combined

Today , we're gonna talk about the benefits from using vitamin D3 and K2 at the same time .

I think the best way to start this presentation is to talk about this calcium paradox .

A paradox is 2 things that sound logical , but they conflict in a certain way .

And the calcium paradox relates to like women , postmenopausal that have bone loss yet at the same time they have vascular calcification .

Now , how can that be ?

That sounds illogical .

I mean , how can you be losing bone like a calcium deficiency and then at the same time you have excess calcium in the arteries ?

It just doesn't make sense .

And another paradox called the French paradox where you have people in France consuming large quantities of saturated fat yet at the same time , they have lower rates of heart disease .

How can that be ?

Is it the wine they're drinking ?

Is it some phytonutrients ?

What is it ?

Well , what we're gonna talk about now will explain both paradoxes .

There's some missing information that will make everything make sense .

Alright .

So let's start with vitamin D3 .

Most people know that vitamin d 3 helps the absorption of calcium in the intestines by a factor of 20 x .

So you can absorb a lot more calcium when you have vitamin d in your gut .

Where does the calcium go ?

It goes in your blood .

Now is that dangerous ?

Is that a problem ?

Are you gonna develop too much calcium in the blood ?

That's called hypercalcemia .

Now there is conflicting studies on that .

Sometimes it does , sometimes it doesn't .

And the next thing I'm gonna tell you will explain that inconsistency too .

It has to do with this one vitamin called vitamin k 2 .

Not k 1 , k 2 .

K 1 is all about clotting .

K .

If you're deficient in k 1 , you're gonna bruise easily .

Vitamin k 2 is different .

It takes that calcium in the blood and transports it into the bone in the teeth .

It's a calcium transporter and it uses this helper right here .

It's a protein called osteocalcin to draw calcium into the bone and bind it inside the bone so the bones become very , very solid .

And k two also activates another thing right here called matrix gli protein , which is not necessarily binding the calcium in the bone , it's removing the calcium from not just the arteries , but other soft tissues .

So it keeps calcium out of the arteries , out of the joints , out of the eyes , out of the kidneys , out of the lungs , out of the skin , out of the breast tissue , and so vitamin k 2 is the activator of both of these guys right here .

And without this activator k 2 , both of these proteins stay inactive , and you potentially could start developing pathological calcification , calcification , which is a bad thing because there's certain places that you don't want calcium .

In fact , this thing right here is one of the strongest inhibitors of calcification because when someone takes calcium , let's say , a woman who just became menopausal to prevent her bone loss and now they're at a double risk of getting a heart attack , Well , only if they're deficient in K2 .

And so this hypercalcemia can be controlled if there's enough K2 in the diet .

Now , let me just add one more thing to explain this French paradox .

Right ?

Well , they consume a lot of fatty foods and I've been there and that's absolutely true , yet they have low rates of heart problems .

Mhmm .

Wonder why that is ?

Well , the answer to that is in the source of k 2 .

Where does vitamin k 2 come from ?

Well , it can either come from animal fats , those things that we were told to avoid because we wanna prevent heart problems , which is completely false information .

And so there's 2 main versions of this k 2 , the MK 4 , which is comes from animal fat , but there's also a version m k 7 of k 2 that comes from bacteria , as in that French cheese , and even other fermented things like sauerkraut and a fermented soybean called Lnado , where they use in Japan .

Now understanding this mechanism and vitamin K2 is vitally important since heart attacks are the number one killer .

And if we can keep calcium out of the arteries , that would be a very , very good thing .

And it also explains why a lot of people are deficient in k 2 because they have cut out these foods right here , which I'm gonna explain .

They've cut out the , grass fed butter and ghee , and all the foods I'm gonna mention now are high in vitamin K2 .

They have cut out the hard and soft cheeses .

Maybe they might do low fat cheeses .

Well , guess where all the vitamin K2 is , it's in the fat .

Vitamin K2 is also in egg yolks , especially if it's pasture raised , allowing chickens to run out into the pasture .

Vitamin k 2 is also in goose liver , chicken liver , and beef liver .

It's in hot dogs , and it's also in salmon , wild caught salmon .

Now there's a very interesting book , nutrition and physical degeneration by Weston Price .

I don't know if you've heard about this , but Weston Price studied traditional cultures and he observed that in these traditional cultures , the teeth were almost perfect .

The jaw structure was symmetrical and there's no need for braces at all compared to our modern diet where just about everyone needs braces .

But he found that traditional diets had 10 times the amount of fat soluble vitamins and vitamin k 2 is a fat soluble vitamin .

In fact , he talks about vitamin k 2 in his book even before it was discovered .

He didn't have a name for it , so he called it activator x , but it's interesting that he isolated that way back .

I think it was in the twenties .

Vitamin k 2 doesn't just control calcium .

It also can help , make insulin more sensitive to decrease someone's risk for diabetes .

It also has benefits improving varicose veins , wrinkles , decreasing your risk for getting cavities , as well as preventing jaw malformations where someone would need braces .

And the other thing you need to know about is vitamin k 2 also needs vitamin d 3 , right , to help mobilize this calcium because if there's no vitamin D3 , then where's the calcium for vitamin K2 to deliver into the bones ?

So we need vitamin D3 and we need k 2 in the control of calcium as well as in many different functions .

Now if someone were to take a supplement , okay , you have the MK 4 version of k 2 , and then you also have the MK 7 version , which one is better ?

Well , the MK 4 version from animal fats is a great source .

It's natural , but the problem is it's too expensive to extract this MK 4 version from animal fats .

So the way that they make the MK 4 version is synthetically out of tobacco leaves .

So when you buy the MK 4 version of K2 , you're not really getting the natural version , but if you eat the foods I just mentioned , you'll get a good amount of vitamin K2 in this MK 4 version .

But as far as supplements go , I would recommend the MK 7 version .

That is a natural version .

It's not synthetic .

Its origin is from bacteria , but so is cheese and other fermented products .

And the other advantage of this MK 7 version is it has a much longer shelf life , whereas MK 4 might last a few hours , MK 7 lasts much longer .

Also , if you live in Canada and you're buying the MK 4 version , the actual amounts that they allow in Canada are so tiny .

It's not gonna even make a dent into what you really need .

I think the maximum amount that you're allowed to take is a 121 micrograms when you would need , like , 45 100 micrograms per day .

Now the other question is , what type of ratio between vitamin d 3 and k 2 ?

This is what I recommend .

For every 10,000 IUs of d 3 , I would recommend a 100 micrograms , not milligrams , micrograms of vitamin k 2 .

That will be the ratio .

So if you do 20,000 IUs of d 3 , you would want 200 micrograms of k 2 .

If you took 5,000 IUs of d 3 , you would take 50 micrograms of k 2 , and I'm talking about the m k 7 version .

Now I have a really great summary and a one page document of this topic and more data that I'm gonna share with you .

If you wanna download that , I put a link down below .

Check it out .