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you know the problem is you’re told  you have to do this blood thinner  

which means now that you have to avoid  all those leafy green vegetables that  

have so many health benefits and now what do you  do just avoid vegetables all together well this  

video is going to talk about what to do to solve  that problem if you were on warfarin also named  

coumadin because that medication competes for  vitamin k1 and so if you’re consuming vegetables  

high in vitamin k1 it’s going to make that drug  ineffective now the purpose of a blood thinner  

is to prevent a clot from forming and giving you  a heart attack or a stroke but just so you know  

blood thinners don’t actually make your blood  thinner nor do they break up clots what they  

do is they prevent the formation of new clots and  they can slow the growth of existing clots now if  

i personally had to take a blood thinner i would  opt for the ones that don’t have any drug food  

interactions and i listed four on the whiteboard  here so you can check it out and just check with  

your doctor to see if that would be an option  for you but if you’re told you can’t consume  

certain green vegetables that are high in  vitamin k1 i listed here a whole series  

of vegetables that you need to avoid  all the vegetables that are high in k1  

and the ones that you can eat because they are  low in vitamin k1 let me go through them right now  

onions squash eggplant tomatoes mushrooms  are okay cucumbers artichokes beets  

bamboo shoots bell peppers all colors now the bell  peppers like yellow has no vitamin k1 red have a  

tiny bit and green have a little bit more but it’s  still on the low side avocados have low vitamin k1  

white cabbage celery and cauliflower so  instead of not consuming any vegetables  

these are the ones that you would want to  consume in a good amount so you can also get  

your potassium and other vegetables and the ones  to avoid are as follows nato is a fermented soy  

collards kale spinach mustard greens  brussels sprouts soybeans broccoli  

lettuce except iceberg which is low in k1 and low  and other nutrients as well and then red cabbage  

now as a side note green tea does lower the  effectiveness of blood thinners so you probably  

want to avoid that as well all right so i also put  these in the description so you can check that out  

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