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  1. Thank you for the article. I would highly recommend the following book for an in depth understanding of Vitamin K2: "Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox." K2 is vastly different from K1, which is found in green leafy vegetables. The bacteria in our gut convert a miniscule amount of K1 into the essential K2. In essence, we need to obtain K2 from our diet and the primary available source of K2 is the fat from animal products (butter, eggs, dairy, meat) who have grazed on pasture/grass, as well as from a Japanese fermented soy product called Natto.
    Ruminant animals are very efficient at converting K1 to K2 in the digestive tract. With humans, this is not the case. As such, "Vitamin K2 deficiency is common and invisible" according to the book's author, Dr. Kate Theaume-Bleue. This is troubling, because we need Vitamin K2 to activate enzymes that drive calcium into our bones and away from our arteries! K2 is a key nutrient in preventing osteoporosis and heart disease.

  2. you forgot aged hard cheeses, and real milk all those vegi's mentioned at least most are goitegenic meaning they hamper your thyroid from using iodine- so even those w/ no thyroid issues if you down a bunch of those vegi's each and every day you'll end up w/ iodine deficiency.

    1. where could I find more about this? I think too that cheese and butter (the raw-mil matrial) are often underestimated for vitamins, calcium etc.

  3. K2 also helps your body utilize D3.

  4. I am currently pregnant (34 weeks) and looking to not have my newborn injected with vitamin K at birth. Anyone have additional info on how much vit K I should be consuming to ensure it passes to my little one in the next few weeks as well ??? Any help would be super appreciated! Thanks

  5. Good article, great commenters. Check out the Weston A. Price foundation and the Food Renegade websites. You are sure to find all the info you need to feed your growing babe. This is # 3 for me coming up without Vit K injection or all those horrid vaccines. Just pastured animal products, local organic veg & real milk. Congrats on educating yourselves.

  6. question is there a link between gmo kill gut flora, bacteria and bodies abiliaty to convert k1

  7. bonnielou says:

    “the immediate infliction of pain after birth can cause psycho-emotional trauma” Imagine how much psycho-emotional trauma circumcision, done without anesthesia, can cause!

    1. Wile E Coyote says:

      Circumcision should not be done at all! It’s just a big cash cow for doctors in the maternity ward.

  8. Genevieve L Ferrantino says:

    drkatend.com learn about K1 and K2 . It is very important to supplement K2 if you want your child to be healthy and have straight teeth. I wish I would have known this when I had my kids 🙁

  9. Leslie Landberg says:

    don’t tell anyone on forums, though. “They” our government will be coming for you. No joke, it’s already happening. If I have kids, I am not even going to get them a SS #

  10. Leslie Landberg says:

    as a person with Common Variable Immuno Deficiencies, my gut flora is severely compromised. Additionally, stress and other environmental factors make supplementation and dietary changes an outright necessity for most of us. After multiple hemmorage incidents after taking herbs to strengthen my lungs and immune function. but testing negative for Von Willenbrad’s and other bleeding disorders, I discovered the very real possibility of Vit. K deficiency. Knowing it will help power my heart and bone health, too, is a real plus!

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