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today we’re going to talk about bruising

and the type of bruising that doesn’t

involve some trauma okay so people are

getting bruising and they’re like you

know I didn’t hit myself I wasn’t abused

by anyone I didn’t have any type of

physical impact so why do I have this

bruising that’s the topic for today and

it’s actually a very interesting topic

now if you look up bruising you’ll see

all sorts of

um descriptive types of bruising that

classifies bruising by size like a small

bruise would be classified under this

condition and you have a moderately

sized bruise would be this or a larger

bruise will be called something else but

that’s not really the important thing

about bruising the important thing is to

find the obvious cause of a bruising

that’s very very common there’s rare

things like leukemia other types of

cancer

blood clotting disorders genetic

disorders that could cause bruising

certain viruses can cause you to bruise

and a lot of different medications as

their side effect can give you bruising

like when you’re on warfin which is the

blood thinner or certain antibiotics

or prednisone which is steroids or a

weight loss medication called orlestat

you can even get it over the counter as

something called Ali and even certain

types of bowel disorders like Celiac or

ulcerative colitis can increase your

risk of bruising a fatty liver can

increase your risk of beauty and

bruising so what is the common thread

among all of those things I just

mentioned that’s the topic for today you

have this one vitamin it’s called

vitamin K1 so you may already know that

vitamin K1 comes from leafy green

vegetables right that’s the highest

source and vitamin K1 is also stored in

your liver and we also know vitamin K1

is part of the fat soluble vitamins and

so the other fat soluble vitamins are

vitamin A D E okay and you also have a

different form of vitamin K called K2 so

we need vitamin K1 very desperately

because it prevents bleeding okay so it

helps clotting because if you had a

paper cut and you could never stop the

bleeding

um you’d literally you could bleed to

death so the point is that vitamin K1 is

a very important vitamin in relationship

to survival because we don’t want any

internal bleeding or external bleeding

going on now some people have this idea

if they consume too much vitamin K1

they’re going to get extra clotting and

they’re going to develop a clot that is

absolutely 100 percent false okay if you

get too much vitamin K1

there’s a limit to how much clotting

you’re going to have it’s not going to

be more than normal okay but that extra

vitamin K1 goes to two other very

important purposes number one it’s

involved in a very potent

anti-inflammatory mechanism so it helps

you get rid of inflammation

that’s only if you have extra vitamin K1

so vitamin K1 it’s not just about

clotting it’s also about getting rid of

inflammation

then if there’s extra K1 left over it

ends up in the bowel where it’s

converted into Vitamin K2 and vitamin K2

is vital in preventing calcification in

your arteries and in your joints and

also making sure that your bones are

very very strong and so you don’t end up

with soft bones like osteomalacia or

osteopenium or even osteoporosis so

let’s just take some of these

medications for a second and just take a

look at how they would deplete you of

that K1 let’s take the first one called

Warfarin okay that’s a blood thinner

well that actually is a drug that blocks

the absorption of K1 directly okay and

so it thins your blood in fact it’s uses

one of the poisons to kill rats right

it’s a rat poison it blocks vitamin K2

and then they bleach it out of course

when someone’s giving Warfarin they’re

not giving you massive amounts it’s just

it’s highly regulated to thin the blood

to make sure it doesn’t clot so this is

why people on Warfarin don’t have a

significant amount of vitamin K1 and so

they might bruise so that could be

reason number one why you have bruising

let’s go to number two and antibiotics

certain antibiotics increase your risk

of bruising well here’s the reason

bacteria make a secondary backup type of

bile salt okay so your liver can make

bile but your microbes also make bile so

if you wipe out a good significant

amount of your microbes especially the

ones that make bile then you’re going to

have a heck of a Time extracting this

vitamin K1 from your Foods okay because

bile is all about helping you pull these

Fat Cycle vitamins from the food that

you eat also these microbes have the

potential to make vitamin K1 directly so

if you don’t have those microbes then

you can’t make vitamin K1 not to mention

you’re not going to be able to convert

K1 to K2 very well so you’ll be

deficient in vitamin K2 so pretty much

all these medications I’m talking about

also will inhibit or create a deficiency

of vitamin K2 as well now let’s take

statins okay

the purpose of a Statin is to block the

production of cholesterol now what’s

this relationship between cholesterol

and vitamin K1 well guess what bile

salts are made from

cholesterol and if you don’t have enough

cholesterol you can’t make the bile

salts that help you absorb the fat

soluble vitamins this is why there’s

even a condition as a side effect called

statin-induced calcification wow

so without vitamin K1 or K2 you are

going to get buildup in the arteries of

calcium so it’s pretty wild that you’re

taking this medication to reduce

cholesterol to prevent heart problems

yet it increases the amount of calcium

that builds up in the arteries which

will pretty much create the same thing

and I’m not telling you to come off

medications I’m just giving you the

information but one of the side effects

from statins is bruising now you know

why all right what about these steroids

like prednisone

what’s wild about Prednisone is that

prednisone causes more osteoporosis than

any other medication you can possibly

take so one of the reasons it does that

is it blocks vitamin K1 and vitamin K2

so then you don’t have the factors to

make your bones really really strong and

prednisone uh really destroys the

gallbladder okay it will inhibit the

bile production and increase your risk

of gallstones which by the way people

that have gallstones also have a higher

risk of bruising and that is because you

need bile salts to prevent gallstones

okay and so gallstones are really caused

by a lack of bile and that bile is also

necessary to extract these fat soluble

vitamins from your food like vitamin K1

then we get oralistat okay it’s an

over-the-counter weight loss pill so

this is supposed to help you lose fat

and I’m not sure the mechanism if it

blocks fat or whatever but it definitely

lowers your bile output okay from your

liver and without enough bile you’re not

going to be able to absorb vitamin K1

and you’re going to be more at risk for

bruising I mean even this medication has

one of the side effects is increasing

your risk for something called

thrombocytopenia which is definitely a

disorder of your platelets that can

cause bruising now also one of the side

effects from having a fatty liver is

bruising and now you know why because

without a fully functioning liver you’re

not going to be able to produce enough

bile to again extract these fat soluble

vitamins remember when I told you where

vitamin K1 comes from leafy greens the

question is how much actual greens does

an average person consume in America

well you might be surprised to find out

it’s only on average one and a half cups

okay per day one and a half cups you’re

not going to get enough vitamin K1 from

one and a half cups now your microbes

can produce vitamin K1 but if there’s

some problem with the microbes then

you’re not going to produce K1 and this

is why other problems that are

associated with the gut microbiome like

ulcerative colitis Celiac also give you

this increased risk factor for bruising

because without enough microbes number

one you can’t make vitamin K1 you can’t

convert K1 to K2 you can’t make the bile

salts that are necessary for the

extraction of this K1 from your food so

you can see it’s a big issue now we

talked about bruising as the primary

thing with this video but also realize

that vitamin K1 has a lot to do with

preventing inflammation

as well as giving you more vitamin K2

which is kind of keeping your arteries

free of calcium keeping your joints free

of calcification keeping your bones from

getting osteoporosis and also there’s

quite a few other symptoms that you can

have like for example you can have

nosebleeds you can have more problems

with varicose veins or spider veins if

you’re deficient in vitamin K1 so that’s

all interesting it just might give you

another reason to beef up no pun

intended the amount of vegetables dark

leafy greens that you should be eating

per day especially if you have any of

the problems that we talked about

especially if you’re on these

medications we talked about especially

if you have a fatty liver so like

parsley has probably the most vitamin K1

of any green then we have kale brussels

sprouts

spinach any of the dark leafy green

vegetables iceberg lettuce does not have

a lot of K1 now as far as K2 is

concerned you can get K2 from egg yolks

you can get it from animal liver you can

also get it from hard cheeses you can

get it from extra vitamin K1 if you have

any extra left that is provided into

your gut but your microbes can also make

k2 directly so this is why you can also

get vitamin K2 in sauerkraut and also

this fermented soy dish called NATO and

of course if you’re not from a certain

Asian country you may not like that dish

so maybe you want to stick with

sauerkraut but if you have bruising on

your body and you didn’t have trauma

suspect vitamin K1 deficiency but with a

catch it could be lack of bile it could

be all these other reasons that are

preventing you from getting enough

vitamin K1 now I think the next most

important video for you to watch would

be the one on vitamin K2 check that out

I put it right here