Vitamin K2
*As MK7 - 110mcg - 146% of Daily NRV* in Feel Multivitamin™
- Helps your blood clot better to assist in healing cuts and scrapes;
- Improves bone health and development;
- Prevents heart disease to improve your health and longevity;
- May help with the symptoms of diabetes.
Why We Love Vitamin K2
While most people are aware that vitamin K plays a key role in blood clotting, this vitamin has several other amazing qualities that aren’t as well-known. Vitamin K appears to improve your bone health, and some sources even suggest that this substance could help you regrow tooth enamel.
This vitamin also prevents various forms of heart disease. Vitamin K may even help attenuate blood sugar levels in diabetics, and with all these incredible benefits, it’s easy to see why we just had to include your perfect daily dose of vitamin K in Feel.
Vitamin K improves your bone health and could help you regrow tooth enamel.
Unbelievable Benefits of Vitamin K2
Research into vitamin K is still in its infancy, so this vitamin could have benefits above and beyond those that science has discovered so far:
Cardiovascular Benefits
Vitamin K first gained popularity in the medical community due to its role in blood clotting. Further research, however, has established that this vitamin has several other cardiovascular benefits as well.
For example, vitamin K appears to improve cardiovascular health by preventing calcium buildup in the arteries. The presence of calcium in the heart and arteries leads to plaque buildup, which can cause heart failure and other chronic or potentially fatal coronary conditions.
Bone Benefits
Over 15 studies have indicated that vitamin K may improve your bone density. One study found that vitamin K helps maintain your levels of osteoprotegerin, which is integral to your bone health.
Another study found that vitamin K supplementation improved both the bone density and bone shape of post-menopausal women. Patients are commonly given vitamin K supplements after lung or heart surgery, and research found that this practice improves bone density. In addition, research indicates that people who take vitamin K are less likely to get bone fractures.
Diabetes Benefits
Insulin sensitivity is one of the most serious symptoms of diabetes, and one study found that supplementing with vitamin K may improve insulin sensitivity. Therefore, it’s a great idea to try supplementing with vitamin K if you have diabetes, and this vitamin may be able to prevent diabetes if you are prediabetic.
Cognitive Benefits
Vitamin K supplementation may improve the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. This vitamin also appears to have neuroprotective properties, which means that it prevents damage to your nerve cells. Plus, vitamin K also appears to prevent neuroinflammation, which means that it reduces inflammation in your brain and nervous system.
Here’s the Proof
- Vitamin K: the effect on health beyond coagulation – an overview
- Vitamin K supplementation and progression of coronary artery calcium in older men and women.
- Vitamin K2 inhibits glucocorticoid-induced bone loss partly by preventing the reduction of osteoprotegerin (OPG).
- Vitamin K2 supplementation improves hip bone geometry and bone strength indices in postmenopausal women.
- Dietary vitamin K2 supplement improves bone status after lung and heart transplantation.
- Three-year low-dose menaquinone-7 supplementation helps decrease bone loss in healthy postmenopausal women.
- The effect of menatetrenone, a vitamin K2 analog, on disease recurrence and survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after curative treatment: a pilot study.
- Effect of menatetrenone, a vitamin k2 analog, on recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after surgical resection: a prospective randomised controlled trial.
- Vitamin K2 Supplementation Improves Insulin Sensitivity via Osteocalcin Metabolism: A Placebo-Controlled Trial
- Low vitamin K intakes in community-dwelling elders at an early stage of Alzheimer's disease.
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