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now since heart attacks strokes and high

blood pressure are very common

it might be a good idea to know more

about this arterial stiffness problem

your arteries becoming calcified this

usually comes from getting older

it can come from inflammation because a

person’s a diabetic or they consume a

lot of carbs and sugar that create

fibrosis or for example they’re

consuming foods that are very

inflammatory like the omega-6 fatty

acids but there is one additional very

important factor that you need to know

about it’s actually a cause of hardening

of the arteries or your arteries

becoming very very stiff

and that is a vitamin K2 deficiency when

you are deficient in vitamin K2

the calcium that is floating through

your blood doesn’t necessarily go

anywhere it’s not directed in the bones

you see vitamin K2 has a lot of benefits

to your body but two really important

ones we’re going to talk about are

number one driving the calcium into your

bone and making your bones really strong

so there’s two proteins that vitamin K2

are dependent upon one being responsible

for keeping your bones really really

strong and preventing osteoporosis and

osteopenia

and the other is keeping calcium out of

the arteries and out of the walls of

your arteries and so I’m going to put

several links down below

to back up what I’m saying from some

really interesting credible studies but

vitamin K2 can keep the calcium out of

your arteries and in the right place to

Bones it can even decrease your risk of

heart attacks by 50 percent if you have

enough in your body but the problem is a

lot of people are deficient in vitamin

K2 because they don’t know where vitamin

K2 comes from it comes from the very

food that they are told to avoid it

comes from food high in saturated fat

and cholesterol you can also get it from

other fermented foods like NATO but

typically in the west we don’t even know

what NATO is it’s a fermented soybean

product that is never served at any

restaurants but if you live in Asia you

might know more about NATO but you get

vitamin K2 from fatty foods like Meats

organ Meats egg yolks grass-fed butter

Dairy and yogurt you’re not going to get

any K2 from vegetables fruits beans

grains or nuts now there’s a couple

interesting little parts of this this

story I want to tell you about one is

this when you combine vitamin K2 with

vitamin D3

you get a greatly improved vascular

profile and I’m talking about

A reduced thickness in the wall of your

carotid arteries those are the arteries

in your neck right here just by adding

K2 to your D3 which is very interesting

you also get a decrease in calcium

buildup in those carotid arteries when

you add the K2 to the D3 and anytime

you’re adding K2 to D3 I would recommend

doing this

for every 10 000 IUS of vitamin D3 you

should add about a hundred micrograms of

K2 and I’m talking about the version of

K2 that is the MK 7 version now another

interesting piece of this puzzle is this

women and men that take a lot of calcium

as a supplement like at least a thousand

milligrams or more a day

with or without vitamin D actually

increase the risk of dying from a heart

attack by 20 to over 85 percent because

they’re omitting vitamin K2 now there’s

another little piece of this puzzle I’m

going to talk about

Warfarin Warfarin is a medication that

blocks vitamin K1 okay people that take

Warfarin are trying to prevent clotting

because vitamin K1 has everything to do

with blood clots now when you normally

take vitamin K1 or get it from your

salads because it’s normally in leafy

greens and other vegetables you’re not

going to clot more than you should

normally clot it doesn’t actually create

like these clots that go up to your

brain and create Strokes or heart

attacks that’s not how it works but if

you had heart problems or arrhythmias or

atrial fibrillation or or some type of

pre-existing problem then they’re going

to recommend something to reduce clots

and Warfarin is a popular drug

here’s the problem with Warfarin I just

want to bring this up because it relates

to what we’re talking about Warfarin not

only blocks vitamin K1 but it also

blocks that protein that I talked about

the specific protein that is supposed to

inhibit calcification in your vascular

system and within the wall of your

vascular system this is why one of the

side effects from Warfarin is vascular

calcification so you end up preventing a

clot

but you could potentially increase the

calcium in the arteries if it was me

and I had to take some type of

medication to prevent clots I would

evaluate to see if there’s some other

drug that I could take

that doesn’t involve this K1 or vitamin

K2 proteins in summary start to increase

vitamin K2 Foods if you’re going to take

vitamin K2 as a supplement I would

recommend you take vitamin D3 with K2 it

seems to work better and the next tip

would be to go on a low carb diet simply

because that’s going to reduce the

inflammation and thus keep your arteries

from becoming stiff and of course lastly

avoid the omega-6 fatty acids that could

potentially increase inflammation in

your arteries now since we’re on the

topic of K2 there’s a lot more to know

about that and if you haven’t seen this

video I think you’d find it very

interesting and I’ll put it up right

here