The REAL Reason Why Your Arteries are Calcifying and Turning into Bone

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today i’m going to talk about the big reason why your arteries are calcifying and potentially turning into bone now since heart disease is the number one killer worldwide i think it’s important to discuss a nutritional aspect of this problem that gives you something you can do about it and this video is primarily going to talk about the calcium part of this problem more than cholesterol or other problems with the heart what are the top warning signs that someone can get with a heart attack well number one you’d have chest pain especially if you’re exercising or exerting yourself or going through emotional stress and the chest pain is relieved when you rest that is a really good indicator that there could be a heart problem and then we have referred pain to your left shoulder or arm okay or even your back or the jaw or this side of your head since the heart is slightly on the left side it can refer to that area right here all right number three heartburn without really having heartburn okay so you could have just a burning feeling in your chest that has nothing to do with acid number four shortness of breath especially exercise or climbing stairs and number five there is no symptoms you just drop dead of a heart attack now the big problem with calcium is the hardening of the arteries and now we lose the elasticity we don’t have the ability to adapt to stress blood pressure etc it just becomes hardened and that puts a huge stress on the entire body now what’s interesting about calcium in the arteries is it’s not passive you just don’t end up with calcium in the arteries for no reason it’s an active thing that occurs in certain conditions now as far as the type of calcium in the arteries they are finding that it’s the same type of calcium that is in your bone hydroxyapatite in fact this type of calcium makes up 70 of the calcium in your bone and the vascular system is the second most calcified tissue in the body uh excluding your bones okay now we do know as people age their body starts to calcify okay so they start having calcium deposits in their joints of course in the arteries in their eyes in their tissues all over and so this video that you’re watching is a very important video to understand the mechanism and what you can do about it but we do want to keep the bones calcified and we want to keep the other tissues not calcified now like i’ve already mentioned we don’t want our arteries becoming bone and a really good test to do to determine if you have calcium in your arteries is a cac score stands for coronary artery calcification score okay i had it done you want the results to be zero no calcium in the arteries that puts you at a very very low risk of heart attacks and mortality so the cac test is not only one of the best predictors of whether or not you’re going to have a heart attack it’s also a really good predictor for mortality in general because calcification in your tissues is a pathological sign that there’s something seriously wrong with your health now the other point i want to bring up is the majority of people over six years old have some type of calcium building up in the arteries which again like i said it should not be there now i want to cover something about bone tissue in your bones you have two types of cells you have the osteoblast and then you have the osteoclast and the osteoblasts are the bone cells that are building bone okay they’re building bone up and they’re creating bone and then we have the osteoclast which actually degrades or breaks down bone so we have these two things happening in the bone at all times right so if you have too much of this you get osteoporosis and then if you have too much of this in your arteries especially you start getting calcification in your bones your your arteries actually are turning into bone which is just it’s just bizarre and if we’re talking about inside your arteries we’re talking about the endothelium which is the inner tissue of your arteries there’s actually stem cells okay in this layer of your artery that are osteogenic what does that mean osteogenic it means that they’re capable of producing bone and so a stem cell is an undifferentiated cell it’s kind of like a blank slate that has the potential to turn into a certain cell depending on what the body needs so when someone starts developing bone tissue in their arteries that is a big problem in the differentiation of what this stem cell should turn into now if we take a look at autoimmune diseases we have the same problem we have a differentiation problem your immune system is unable to differentiate between a normal cell and a pathogen it ends up attacking your own cells and so with this problem it’s very similar it’s a differentiation problem well guess what vitamin k2 is a vitamin that was recently discovered now when i say discovered i mean that it’s been there all this time we just did not recognize it and vitamin k2 is involved in this differentiation problem if you have sufficient vitamin k2 in your body you’re going to inhibit this calcification problem you’re going to inhibit the osteoblast the cell that forms bone in the wrong place so vitamin k2 is a potent stimulator of a certain protein called matrix gela protein and this protein inhibits vascular mineralization and is dependent on k2 so if you don’t have k2 this protein is not going to inhibit vascular mineralization or calcification vitamin k2 is becoming more and more popular there’s over 3 500 research papers on vitamin k2 that you can look up and so vitamin k2 is all about keeping calcium out of the arteries and keeping calcium in the bone and making your bones very very strong now i believe that the majority of the population is deficient in vitamin k2 at least subclinically okay and i’m going to tell you why in the next section all right why are we deficient in vitamin k2 well what’s interesting about k2 it’s made by bacteria okay it’s different than vitamin k1 which actually comes from leafy greens and so vitamin k2 is made by bacteria in fact even in your gut you can convert vitamin k1 to k2 okay if you have the right microbes so if you have gut problems okay and you don’t have the right microbes you can’t make this conversion that’s number one also as far as an absorption problem vitamin k2 is a fat soluble vitamin which means it’s dependent on bile okay which is produced by the liver and if your liver is fatty which you can pretty much tell if you have a fatty liver if you have a belly okay if you have belly fat you have a fatty liver the more damage to the liver the less bile you’re going to make and the less k2 you’re going to absorb if you don’t have a gallbladder if you have a congested gallbladder if you have gallbladder problems if you have a bile deficiency you will also have a problem absorbing vitamin k2 if you have inflammation in your gut if you have gastric bypass surgery or some type of problem with your gut that can inhibit your absorption of k 2. also if you don’t have enough fermented foods you could be deficient in k2 because certain microbes in the fermentation process can actually make vitamin k2 so let me give you some examples we have nato which is a fermented soybeans i think it’s very popular in the east um not in the west sauerkraut has k2 okay you know what that is cheese is a fermented product raw cheese especially if it’s hard cheeses or soft cheeses from europe because usually they have raw milk cheese you’re going to have a good amount of vitamin k2 if you actually can get raw butter okay and grass-fed butter you have a good amount of vitamin k2 and guess what butter is a fermented product okay and then of course we have kefir which is one level above yogurt if that’s made from grass-fed animals you’re going to have a good amount of k2 of course if you’re getting conventional yogurt or conve