What Does Vitamin K1 Do? - Dr. Berg

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hey guys today we’re going to talk about vitamin k1 I’ve done other videos on vitamin k2 which is involved in the transportation of calcium out of the soft tissues out of the arteries into the bone but vitamin k1 is just as important for different functions but they both work together so a vitamin k1 is a cofactor which is a helper nutrient to make something called prothrombin sometimes people think wow I don’t want to take vitamin k1 because I don’t want to have a clot and I have a heart attack but realize that vitamin k1 also has other proteins there’s many different types or subtypes of vitamin k1 kind of in a complex there’s a protein C and an S which are anti-clotting so it’s not just about clotting it also helps you break up clots and vitamin k1 is really really really important in making bone in fact if you don’t have any vitamin k1 it’s going to be very difficult to make bone even if you have calcium or other minerals there are certain things that block the absorption of vitamin k1 one is if you’re constipated number two if you have a liver problem a fatty liver you have cirrhosis of the liver you have insulin resistance gallbladder problems because you need the bile to help you break down this fat Seibel vitamin IBS any type of damage within your colon let’s see of Italy itis which is inflammation in the part of the ileum or Crohn’s diverticulitis can block the absorption of vitamin k1 if you had a gastric bypass that can inhibit the absorption of vitamin k1 as well realize that k1 also helps make k2 it’s kind of like a precursor so your body also has microbes that make the vast majority of vitamin k2 in fact 75% of the k2 you have is made by your own microbes so that means if you take an antibiotic or you destroy the microbes you’re gonna make a lot less k2 and one of the symptoms you’re gonna get you can get calcification in the arteries you can get calcification in the joints you can have bone loss all sorts of things now the unique thing about vitamin k1 which is a fat side of a vitamin that is different from the other fat soluble vitamins is that it doesn’t get stored so you actually need quite a bit alright so next one vitamin k1 is very very essential for bone we talked about that and also if you’re on coumadin okay you can’t take vitamin k1 because you have a blood thinner and you’re trying to prevent strokes because that’s going to create a problem because where you get vitamin k1 belief he greens all those salads that I’ve been recommending right 7 to 10 cups of salad per day right but if you’re in a blood thinner you know you’re told not to consume that but by the way if you’re uncommon 10 and you can’t consume a lot of leafy greens I did put a video down below of what vegetables you should be consuming but another option would be to talk to your doctor about this medication called Eliquis okay which would allow you to consume leafy greens because it works at a different mechanism alright there you have it now you know what vitamin k1 does so if you want more knowledge on how to create a healthy body subscribe now and get daily notifications daily notifications that sounds weird well I’ll just remind you on a daily basis how about that