The Key Vitamin for Bone Health that Most People Don't Know About

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SADOC_MD — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:03:08 GMT

Rose, David and Ironmaiden, you are all correct and the professor is wrong concerning the health benefits of animal meat, providing its origins are free range and not tampered with by the food industry ! Saturated fats are most definitely not atherogenic, since these fats raise high density lipoprotein(HDL-C) whic is cardio-protective, and confers its health promoting properties by preserving arterial endothelium through several mechanisms, one of which is the inhibition of the oxidation of LDL-cholesterol. HDL cholesterol is also anti-thrombotic and decreases platelet aggregation, reducing further the risk for cardiovascular disease.

The widespread vilification of saturated fats actually has no basis in scientific evidence and is the product of marketing strategies which serve the economic interests of the anti-cholesterol lobby.

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LoridaLady — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:01:46 GMT

I wonder why they didn't mention alfalfa, a great source of vitamin K and so healthy for people in general. It helped me completely get rid of some rheumatoid arthritis symptoms & other have reported the same thing. It is easy to get as a supplement just about any grocery store.

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moo_203 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:21:05 GMT

3000 mcg! are you sure doc?

i use the k2 product that you promote ....it lists 100 mcg per capsule daily.

so to get 3000 i would have to take the whole bottle everyday!

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charmela — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:44:27 GMT

After three heart attacks, my FiL was taken off all foods with K in them. I didn't see then how this could help him, at the time, and he has been deteriorating steadily since his release from the hospital. If vitamin K is good for the heart, why did they not allow the green vegetables with K in them? Does medical science truly work backwards ? - as we all seem to notice reading Dr. Mercola's articles. Even cranberries have K in them, and he's not allowed to eat cranberries - although last Thanksgiving he "cheated" a bit on that and had a few bites of cranberry sauce. The doctors advised him - gently - to quit smoking after his last heart attack, but he didn't listen. It could be his recent slide downhill is also attributed to the decades of smoking, too.

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Heather Marsh — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:52:59 GMT

from the Weston Price Website:

"Vitamin K2 may also be required for the safety of vitamin D. The anorexia, lethargy, growth retardation, bone resorption, and soft tissue calcification that animals fed toxic doses of vitamin D exhibit bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms of deficiencies in vitamin K or vitamin K-dependent proteins. Warfarin, which inhibits the recycling of vitamin K, enhances vitamin D toxicity and exerts a similar type of toxicity itself. Similarly, the same compounds that inhibit the toxicity of Warfarin also inhibit the toxicity of vitamin D. I have therefore hypothesized elsewhere that vitamin D toxicity is actually a relative deficiency of vitamin K2. The synergy with which vitamin K2 interacts with vitamins A and D is exactly the type of synergy that Price attributed to Activator X"

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mohammad kazemi — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:55:00 GMT

natto is the way to go

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BlueEyedGrass — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:05:13 GMT

Dr. Mercola, 3,000mcg. of Vit. K3 per day seems like an unsafe amount. I get about 50 mcg. of Vit. K1from my Mega Food Iron Free Daily One food-based supplement and take 1/2 of a capsule containing Vit. D2, 1000 I U's and Vit. K2 100 mcg. I get additional D from 2 other sources not including the sun. The clotting problem with too much Vit. K concerns me. Please comment on this in one of your upcoming articles.

Thanks.

BlueEyed Grass

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tahoe1780 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:44:03 GMT

Thought this was interesting: www.lef.org/.../jan2009_Vitamin-K-Protection-Against-Arterial-Calcification-Bone-Loss-Cancer-Aging_01.htm Looks like K2 can REVERSE arterial calcification. Yea!

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david — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:02:04 GMT

Rose 5HT...

.If I understand you correctly, you are saying that coconut oil is bad for you and promotes atherosclerosis, along with other saturated fats?

If so, then I dispute that, as I believe coconut oil to be highly beneficial, anti-viral, anti-bacterial and readily used for energy.

I agree that lipids from healthy animals.... fed on a correct natural diet, are beneficial and indeed, have been our primary source of energy for thousands of years.

Dietary cholesterol contributes very little to our blood levels of cholesterol and the liver is responsible for producing what the body requires to repair any damage, degeneration, etc.

To artificially lower one's cholesterol levels when the body has produced them ....usually for good reason, is unwise to say the least!

Sorting the underlying cause, is working with nature, rather than against.

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msg9 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:20:53 GMT

Dr. Mercola in this article suggests 3000mcg daily of vitamin K. Is he kidding?!!! The most I have ever read about as being safe levels is no more than 90mcg a day. Take 3000mcg and throw a clot as in thrombosus...Look it up!!

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tootiemoonie — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:19:02 GMT

I was pleased to see something on Vit K, but somewhat disappointed that there was no mention in this article about the use of Vit K2 for heavy menstrual bleeding. I started taking this some 7 months ago and the change has been dramatic. I am perimenopausal, with no other symptoms, but since supplementing with Vit K, I have gone from bleeding for up to 8 days every 23 or 24 days to bleeding just for 4 days every 28 days or so. I make and drink kefir regularly, but apparently needed more Vit K. I only supplement during my period. It seems so revolutionary and simple to me, and makes sense, that I really really wish more people knew about it and would give it a try. Heavy bleeding is such a burden. I'm pleased to know that my bone and heart health are probably benefitting as well.

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James_Hopson — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:11:17 GMT

One great source of concentrated Vitamin K is in green cabbage juice. Of course you can get it from eating the cabbage but not in such a high concentration as when it is in the juiced form. An 8 oz cup from time to time will do wonders. Not only will it help build the bones but it is amazing in its ability to stop bleeding. Unlike anything I have ever seen. Very powerful.

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Heather Marsh — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:26:05 GMT

I am now drinking between 200ml and 400ml of milk kefir daily - would I be getting sufficient K2 from that amount?

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ironmaiden — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:44:47 GMT

In the podcast the professor says animal fat is unhealthy. I don't agree with that. I understood that organ meat and anything containing blood was a good source of K2.