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Vitamin K
Vitamins And Health Supplements
We all know how important eating a well balanced diet is, to maintain a healthy array of all the vitamins that are essential for the body to go about doing it's tireless work, day in day out, yet we all seem mystified when we become run down or ill, from either having been living off fad diets or instant food full of preservatives and additives.
I look at our 'good food good health' slogan as a way of life, we are what we eat, so if you want your body to run smoothly we need to eat nutritiously - well you would not run your Porsche on two stroke fuel and expect a smooth ride or optimum power, heaven forbid, your body works exactly the same although obviously you can change your car every few years, to date medical science is not quite up to that yet!!
Vitamin K is not one of the better-known vitamins, although it plays a crucial role in our well being. Until recently it was thought that it was only beneficial in helping blood clot, now if you ask me that is pretty important as we do not want to bleed to death.
Vitamin K has two main forms- phylloquinine (vitamin K1), which is also known as phytonadione and menaquinones (vitamin K2).
Phylloquinine K1 makes up 90 per cent of the vitamin k in a typical diet and is found in leafy green vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, spinach and broccoli etc and also vegetable oils.
Menaquinones can also be obtained in the diet from different products such as meat, cheese and fermented foods.
Our bodies naturally produce Vitamin K from food in the small intestine by bacteria, but there is no way of telling how much this provides us of our daily needs.
Studies have shown that Vitamin K is now known to assist the body significantly in many ways and is being hailed as a natural wonder drug.
K1 and K2 play major roles in bone health, by empowering secondary modification of the protein osteocalcin that is required to bind calcium to bone matrix. It also produces GLA -'glue' like amino acid that helps keep calcium in the bones. So for postmenopausal women vitamin K is important for helping to keep osteoporosis at bay, as studies have shown that by taking a supplement of 45mg of vitamin K daily for 3 years bone density actually improved.
Worryingly, it has been found that people who have a deficiency in Vitamin K have been linked with bone loss and arterial calcification.
Because of this research has been carried out on rats with exciting results. It was found that by feeding rats a K2 rich diet for 6 weeks, further hardening of the arteries was prevented and a 37 per cent reduction of existing hardening. As currently no treatment exists for hardened arteries, cardiovascular specialists are extremely excited if this finding has the same effect on humans and the future of the disease, studies pending on this are looking promising.
Hardened arteries - arterial calcification causes the walls of blood vessels to lose elasticity, making the heart work at elevated rates to pump blood around the body. This extra pressure on the heart can lead to heart attacks, by up to 50 percent more!
Hardening of the arteries is not only through poor diet it can also happen through injury and a simple small knock is enough, this process of calcification in the arteries can take months or even years, causing inflammation to the wall of the blood vessel and through this floating cholesterol and debris consequently gets stuck to the site and this is where calcification - hardening happens.
So if we all eat a well balanced diet of good food, including those greens that a lot of people dislike, to make sure we maintain our vitamin K levels and the benefits for good health are greatly increased. Supplements are also available to boost your intake.
So like we said previously good food is good health.
Sandra & Ted
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