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Speaker 1: Vitamin K, called phylloquinone, can be found, phyllo, plants, in plants. Green
leafy vegetables are high. Your beans are high, but you need to convert this Vitamin
K1 into something called Vitamin K2. That conversion doesn't always happen very well.
If you have amazing bacterium in your intestinal tract, fantastic! You can get Vitamin K, too,
from your intestinal tract. You can also produce it in your body. Now, some people don't do
this very well, so supplemental K might work beautifully.
You can take something called MK7, which is usually derived from nattokinase or soy. You
can take it at about 100 micrograms per day, and that will change the ability of your body
to put calcium in the bone. Or you can take something called MK4 at about 45 milligrams
a day, and the research is showing, when women have osteoporosis or osteopenia, it might
be one of the most important factors for having them restructure, rebuild bone.
The other thing is, dietarily, you can be eating high concentrations of animal fat.
Now, a lot of people are recommending butter. A lot of people are recommending lard. Some
people are recommending organ meats. My concern there is, yes, you'll get your K2, but at
the same time, we're living in a toxic soup these days. A lot of these toxins, these persistent,
organic pollutants, bind to fat readily, so if you eat a lot of butter, you eat a lot
of organ meats, you are polluting your own body with whatever those animals had been
exposed to their entire lives. So I recommend plant-based Vitamin K, proper bacterium in
your intestinal tract, and considering supplementation if your levels are low.