The Greatest Overlooked Nutrient in Medicine
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Vitamin K2 removes calcium from your arteries and other soft tissues and puts it into the bone where it belongs. In this video, we’re going to discuss the health benefits of vitamin K2 and how it can be used to clean your arteries, prevent heart attacks, and keep you healthy!
Vitamin K2 deficiency can lead to soft tissue calcification, bone corrosion, osteoporosis, and cavities.
You can get vitamin K2 from the diet, or you can make it from vitamin K1 in the gut. Natto (fermented soybeans) is the food with the most vitamin K2. Eel, goose liver, chicken liver, and beef liver also contain a significant amount of vitamin K2. Butter and cheese from grass-fed animals, salami, pork chops, and fermented vegetables contain small amounts of vitamin K2.
Vitamin K2 can clean your arteries naturally, yet it’s found in fatty foods that we’ve been told to avoid! Because it’s a fat-soluble vitamin, you may have trouble absorbing it if you don’t have a gallbladder or you have a bad liver.
You need plenty of healthy microbes to convert vitamin K1 to vitamin K2. B. subtilis is the primary microbe responsible for this conversion. Only 30% of the population has this microbe in their gut because it’s very easily destroyed when you consume broad-spectrum antibiotics.
Without B. subtilis and vitamin K2 foods, you’re at risk for developing calcification in the arteries.
Antibiotics, steroids, PPIs, antacids, glyphosate from GMO foods, alcohol, junk food, liver disease, high-sugar diets, and blood thinners destroy the gut’s ability to make vitamin K2. Low-fat diets can also put you at risk for a vitamin K2 deficiency.
Vitamin K2 is dependent on magnesium. Together, magnesium and vitamin K2 can help clean your arteries and remove calcium deposits from your soft tissues.
There are two kinds of vitamin K2: MK4 (synthetic) and MK7 (natural). Try taking 100 mcg of MK7 vitamin K2 for every 10,000 IU of vitamin D3.
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| 0:00.0 | There's one very important nutrient that prevents a lot of health problems. |
| 0:04.9 | Vitamin K2, if you have calcium in your arteries, vitamin K2's job is to remove it, |
| 0:11.7 | but you have other soft tissues as well. |
| 0:13.5 | So this is the hip joint. Vitamin K2 tells the joints to release the soft tissue, whether it's |
| 0:18.8 | arthritis, calcium deposits, It tells it to be released |
| 0:23.1 | into the blood. The other function of vitamin K2 is to make sure calcium goes from that blood |
| 0:28.4 | into the bone. And it binds very tightly to your bones and your teeth. So when you don't have |
| 0:34.8 | enough of this vitamin K2, you get a lot of soft tissue calcification. |
| 0:39.3 | And you also get a lot of bone corrosion like osteoporosis as well as cavities. And the reason why we |
| 0:44.7 | have vitamin K2 is because it's very, very dangerous to have too much calcium in the soft tissues. |
| 0:50.6 | We're supposed to have it directed into the bone in your teeth, but it's not normal to have it in other places. |
| 0:56.2 | So our body has this whole mechanism of keeping it in the right place. |
| 1:00.3 | And so the question is, where does vitamin K2 come from? |
| 1:03.0 | It can either come from our foods or it can be converted by certain microbes in our gut from another vitamin called vitamin K1. And vitamin K1 |
| 1:11.7 | comes from leathy greens. And so, of course, if you're not eating a lot of leafy greens, you're |
| 1:15.8 | probably not getting enough K1. So the next question is, what type of foods are very high in this |
| 1:20.6 | vitamin K2? One is called Nato. That's fermented soybeans. This is something they consume in Japan, maybe areas of China. Nato has the most |
| 1:30.0 | vitamin K2. A lot of people take it if they have a heart problem and they're at risk for a stroke. |
| 1:35.8 | And what's interesting is that here we have this at Nato. It's very high in K2, but it also seems to |
| 1:41.7 | counter the effects of vitamin K1. The next highest food with vitamin K2 is |
| 1:46.7 | goose liver. It's also high in chicken liver, beef liver. I cannot consume liver. I do have cod liver, |
| 1:54.0 | but other types of liver I can't consume because I just don't like it. Next food it's in, |
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