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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

conventional kefir

that is pasteurized and sweetened you’re

probably not going to get very much k2

now vitamin k2 is also in

egg yolks it’s also in

beef liver especially if it’s grass-fed

it’s in

sausage it’s basically in fatty foods so

if you’re on a low-fat diet okay

you might be omitting these right here

and what’s really bizarre to me is take

a while guess what mainstream recommends

for cardiovascular

disease okay if you guessed a low-fat

diet you are correct what do they

recommend they recommend fruits

vegetables

grains at least half whole grains and

half refined grains and they even allow

a good amount of added sugars to that

diet and so this is just another one of

those examples of finding out what

they are telling you to do or what

mainstream is telling you to do and do

the complete opposite

i mean even take a look at statin drugs

right

satin drugs inhibit vitamin k2

and i’ll put a research paper down below

to back that up now as far as the type

of vitamin k2 there’s a lot of different

types

one type in these foods right here is

mk4 but if you get mk4 and supplement

they make it synthetically i recommend

the natural form of vitamin k2 which is

mk7

and i also recommend taking it with

vitamin d okay now as far as the ratios

go if you’re taking 10 000 ius of

vitamin d3 you would take 100 micrograms

of vitamin k2

one last point about vitamin d that’s

actually quite interesting some people

are concerned about the toxicity levels

of

vitamin d3 right well really the only

side effect from taking very large

amounts of vitamin d3 i’m talking like

several hundred thousand ius of vitamin

d3 over a month okay

the only

major complication

is hypercalcemia

that means

too much calcium in the blood well guess

what vitamin k2 does it helps to keep

the calcium out of the arteries and in

the bone that’s why i recommend taking

them together and on that note i think

you might find it interesting

in this next video on vitamin d toxicity

check it out