Vitamin K2

appm · ‎04-17-2010

Does anyone take Vitamin K2? I just read an article in Readers Digest that said it is very good for heart health - shuffling calcium to your bones instead of letting calcium clog your arteries. The article also said that it may reverse coronary calcification. I've heard of Vitamin K but never heard of K2.

blueroses47 · ‎03-09-2010

I'm taking vitamin K2....heard about how it is necessary to take along with your calcium, so that the calcium is directed to the bones as opposed to being channeled elsewhere. I just started a few months ago, and I can't remember where I first learned of it's benefits.

I have osteoporosis, and I'm doing everything I can to deal with it in more natural ways, including serious weight bearing excercise (which I hate with a passion).

Lynnster67 · ‎08-18-2015

I take Target's version of Centrum and vitamin K is in there (although I'm not sure whether it's K1 and/or K2).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K

appm · ‎04-17-2010

I found Vitamin K2 included with D3 on Vitacost.com. The article didn't specify that it should be taken with another vitamin, but since I already take D3, I ordered that K2 with D3 (chewable, which I was happy to see since I hate swallowing large pills).

OnlyShopsOnline · ‎03-09-2010

I've read about taking K2 with calcium. But, my doctor's knew nothing about it when I asked.....not surprising.

I've been trying to get my calcium from food sources because of the heart risk of taking calcium supplements.

I actually purchased a K/Calcium/D combo supplement, but haven't taken it yet. I'd like to get a true medical opinion.

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SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

My husband and I take it every day

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@appm

I have had lots of experiences with Vitamin K. Been on both the good health side of it, and unfortunateley on the bad side of it.

When a person has a Pulmonary Embolism their chances of dying from them are not a rare thing, quite the opposite. I have lived through 2 episodes of PE, and consider myself to be very fortunate.

Those that suffer from DVT or PE, almost always are put on a blood thinner. If so, they must avoid Vit. K in all ways, including what they should not eat. Being on Coumadin/Warfarin for 7+ years eliminated a lot of foods of my lacto-ovo vegetarian life style of decades.

Now Vitamin K also saved my life when my organs began to bleed out during 1 of my Cardiac Rehab Classes. With my ongoing Colon Bleeding issues(120+ blood transfusions) I was faced with an option. Do I want to keep being an Anemic and need at least 2 units of blood transfused every 2-3 weeks, or do I want to risk another shot at living through a PE once again.

I chose quiting the blood thinners. An Anemic life for me is like no life. Always feel worn out and unable to do simple every day things in ones life without being completely worn out. Throw in 6-8 hours of regular blood transfusions, and in my case, almost daily full blood draws for my INR/ProTime readings? I quit them in 2009 and so far so good.

No way would I take anything with Vitamin K(1-2-3 or whatever) without a long talk with your doctor(s). Maybe there is some reason it might benefit you, beats me. But buy it as a supplement without talking with the doctor that knows your personal Medical History?

As I mentioned, I have been on the good and bad sides of Vitamin K, and if there is 1 Vitamin I would not risk taking without a doctors approval, it is any type of Vitamin K.

hckynut(john)

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

People on anticoagulant therapy should not take vitamin K without talking to their doctor first. It will interfere with blood thinning properties. If you are taking a multivitamin, along with a healthy choice of foods, then you most likely don't need the extra dose of another K supplement because most multivits contain adequate amounts of the K vitamin . If you are taking vitamin K for bone density management then you need only take MICROgrams of the K supplement.

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

@OnlyShopsOnline wrote:
I've read about taking K2 with calcium. But, my doctor's knew nothing about it when I asked.....not surprising.

I've been trying to get my calcium from food sources because of the heart risk of taking calcium supplements.

I actually purchased a K/Calcium/D combo supplement, but haven't taken it yet. I'd like to get a true medical opinion.

@OnlyShopsOnline You will not get a true medical opinion. Doctors are not taught about supplements & don't have a clue. When this was in the news doctors were telling patients to stop taking calcium. Instead of telling patients to stop taking calcium they should be able to tell you when to take it & with what. They only push Big Pharma drugs. If Big Pharma could patent supplements the doctors would know all about them.

I take Andrew Lessman's K2 with a 4000 IU D3. From what I understand you need to take calcium, magnesium, K2 & D3 together. The amount you take also has to do with your weight.