The study found that people with the highest intakes of vitamin K1 were 21 percent less likely to be hospitalised with cardiovascular disease related to atherosclerosis. For vitamin K2, the risk of being hospitalised was 14 percent lower.
NutraCast: Dr. Andrew Myers, CEO and Chief Science Officer of NutraGenetics Overcoming micronutrient deficiencies could become part of an effective strategy in the fight against COVID-19. While vitamin D supplementation has gained wide attention amid the pandemic, in the shadows is a lesser known but equally important nutrient: vitamin K2.
Dr. Andrew Myers, CEO and Chief Science Officer of NutraGenetics, said in order to understand vitamin K2, you must first know what vitamin K is.
“There are actually two forms of vitamin K. K1 is found mostly in plants like leafy greens and it kind of resides in our liver. The other K is vitamin K2, and that s the one that works outside of the liver and has wide-ranging benefits in the body. So when you say ‘What is vitamin K2?’ Well, it s an essential vitamin that s part of the vitamin K family and it s a distinct nutrient from vitamin K1. It s an immune enhancing nutrient. So it s beneficial to the function o
Study signals need for vitamin k2 with statin use, says firm Norway-based vitamin K2 supplier NattoPharma has highlighted new evidence connecting statin use to increased cardiovascular risk which it says further proves the need for Vitamin K2 supplementation in these patients.
The international supplier of MenaQ7 (vitamin K2 as menaquinone-7) spotlights a newly published cross-sectional clinical study published in
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences which adds to evidence that statins, a regularly prescribed cholesterol medication, may enhance calcium accumulation in the arterial wall by inhibiting vitamin K-dependent proteins involved in vascular protection.
Statins are first‐line drugs in the prevention and treatment of established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Paradoxically, intensive statin therapy has been shown to increase vascular calcification and accelerate its progression however the clinical significance of statin-indu
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