Vitamin K2: The Missing Nutrient for Heart and Bone Health

UPDATE: My opinion, Vitamin K2 is a Miracle Drug. I am 81 years old in 3 months. i still have the 2 Stents in my central heart artery, the LAD, but my arteries are clear of plaque. I have 3 Calcium Scores to prove it. Most Important thing for every man and woman over age 40 is to get a low energy Heart CT Scan called a Calcium Score. Most insurance will not pay for it. Most hospitals charge around a hundred bucks for the scan. The Calcium Score will give you a score of zero to a thousand for each of the 4 arteries. Zero you are clear, a thousand, you are in trouble and will probably be advised to have immediate open heart surgery to install a bypass. The reason most "office Cardiologist" do not recommend a Calcium Score is that they think there is no way to remove the plaque which is Calcium not Cholesterol. Statins and Cholesterol are a big scam. Now the drug companies claim Statins fight inflammation but there were no clinical trails. And did you know Pfizer did it's Clinical trail with 2,000 young men? No women, no older men. The Norwegians are intelligent people who do not trust our drug companies, Pfizer and Merck. Norway did it's own Cholesterol Study. You can find it on the internet at MEDPUB NIH.GOV titled, "the Norwegian Hunt 2 Study." The Norwegian study used over 50,000 ;Norwegians, over half of them women and lots of men over 60. The results of the study you should read for yourselves but I can't resist, the Norwegian Study says, "for women, high cholesterol is NOT HARMFUL and may be beneficial." For older men they show that Men over age 60 with high cholesterol live longer, have half the death rate per thousand, than men over 60 with low cholesterol. Makes you mad when you read it. The Norwegians stress Cholesterol is the basic building block of the body and most cholesterol is used to repair damaged body cells, including BRAIN CELLS. WE need Cholesterol. We don't need Statins.Taking twelve 100mcg Vitamin K2 pills a day, I cleaned my four heart arteries of ALL plaque in 6 months. I lost all joint and bone pain that had been diagnosed as arthritis. It was errant Calcium in joints and soft tissue. I stopped passing Kidney Stones. My purple ankles turned pink/white/normal again. I can walk without tiring. I love life. I feel 40 years old not 80. I am returning to the Golf Course which I quit because of severe hip, back shoulder and arm pain. During the Vietnam War I was a Navy Pilot and was injured in a carrier flight deck accident that chipped a bone in my neck, C4-C5 that bothered me since 1968. The bone is repaired, the pain is gone, I can painlessly turn my head again. I FEEL FANTASTIC. When I first began my hunt for a way to rid my arteries of Calcium Plaque 6 years ago, I found only 5 studies at the NIH,GOV pub site. This week of March, 2020, I looked and there are 4,124 studies of Vitamin K2. Doctors claim in the studies that Vitamin K2 cures Osteoporosis, Arteralporosis, Diabetes, and has positive effects on hundreds of other ailments like Parkinson. READ THE STUDIES AT NIH.PUB. It is a U.S. govt site, we own it. NIH is the largest, and best medical institute in the world They publish these studies from all over the world. In the U.S. our drug companies are in charge of testing and researching new drugs. In the rest of the world they do not trust the drug companies and the governments do their own studies. Read the studies from the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Japan, Italy all on the NIH PUB site. Read the Italian one where the Italians are considering 'INFUSING OLIVE OIL WITH VITAMIN K2 TO ELIMINATE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN ITALY'. Which is a darn good idea. Write your senator or lousy congressman. I write and they do not listen. Write to your newspaper and TV network. I have written to the WSJ, Washington Times, and the FOX News Network and all I hear is crickets. Let them hear you. Vitamin K2 as MK7 is a Miracle Drug. God Bless, Oh my office Cardiologist' I call them that because they are not surgeons and just mouth the drug company lines. I fired mine and found a office cardiologist that believes in Vitamin K2 and recommends it to his patients. I have convinced four doctors in my town to use and recommend Vitamin K2. good luckI think vitamin K2 and vitamin C are reducing the plaque buildup in my arteries. A friend and I took Vitamin K2 as Mk7 for six months and then had a Calcium Score preformed at our local hospital radiology dept. We both saw significant drops in the score. My friend's score a year ago was 3,500. His arteries were severely clogged and his heart valves were ringed with calcium leading to more cardiovascular problems. His calcium score dropped to 2,200. We both had previous catherization and stents installed in our LAD arteries. From the catherization lab film my cardiologist predicted my score would be over 2,000, but after taking Vitamin K2 as MK7 three times a day and mixing Vitamin C as Acerola Cherry powder into all my bottled water, consuming six tablespoons of the powder, each having over 800 mg of natural Vitamin C. Red blots on my lower legs were the result of blood vessels clogged with calcium tearing near the skin. Doctors told me there was nothing i could do to prevent the blood vessel damage or reduce my heart artery plaque. I was determined to find something. Then I went to the NIH publication site and found the Rotterdam Study and another study from Poland both indicating that arterial plaque could be reduced with Vitamin K2. The Polish article is titled, ""Proper Calcium Use: Vitamin K2 as a promoter of Bone and Cardiovascular Health." The author, Katarzyna Maresz, Ph D is President and Scientific Coordinator of the International Science and Health Foundation in Krakow, Poland. Both of the studies indicate there is some hope that the two vitamins will actually reduce arterial plaque. After taking the K2 and Vitamin C for a month, the red blots disappeared. I stopped taking the vitamins and two weeks later, the red blots reappeared. After starting both vitamins again, the blots disappeared again as did dark varicose veins around my ankle. And I feel better than I have for the past 20 years. I am a retired 78 years old Navy and Airline Pilot. .

This author makes a BIG mistake stating that Mk7 is superior to MK4.MK4 is by far the superior and more beneficial and effective form of Vitamin K2 that gets into your soft tissues and brain exponentially more thoroughly and effectively than MK7. Mk7 does have a longer half-life, but this does not make it superior. Do your own proper research and you will find that MK4 is the real difference maker (best take 2 - 3 times per day).There is a lot of marketing hype out there about MK7, but I guarantee you with proper research you will find that it is inferior and much less effective than MK4.Google: Vitamin K2 MK7 vs MK4I did enjoy the illustrations in the book, just wished the author doubled-down on his research and had his book peer reviewed. This should be pulled from the bookstore and corrected.Wishing you the best health!

Terse, informative, and readable, Dennis Goodman places great emphasis on the need of Vitamin K2 for proper bone strength, aging, and health. Osteopenia and osteoporosis are degenerative bone diseases but a combination of vitamin K2, vitamin D, and calcium can prevent these conditions from occurring. Often times, we hear about vitamin K1, which is important for blood coagulation but does little in going beyond that to perform the same functions as K2. The mineral calcium relies on K2 for proper absorption to bones. To aid in strong bones and healthy aging vitamin K2 is required to maintain homeostasis between keeping coronary and blood vessels calcium free and maintaining strong bones. In order for vitamin K2 to be able to properly perform this function, it would need vitamin D to pull calcium from the gut into the bloodstream.Goodman is clear and intentionally repetitive throughout​ the book, allowing the information to stick for the reader.Great, applicable information.

Well written and well researched, this is a good comprehensive look at vitamin K. The doctor recommends supplementing with calcium and magnesium along with vitamin K. One point I would add to the information in the book is that the best way to get calcium is through your diet. This requires some research into calcium levels in food. If you choose to take a supplement, do not take calcium carbonate. It is very poorly absorbed. Use calcium citrate malate, or another more readily utilized form. Do your research. The best way to take magnesium is by using magnesium oil. It is transdermal and by rubbing it into your skin you will get the most "bang for your buck." You should also take vitamin D (also recommended in the book) in the D3 form only.

This is an important book. Everyone age 40 or older should read it. It may help you prevent a heart attack, and it may help you avoid spending your golden years crippled by osteoporosis.Dr. Goodman recommends the Japanese food natto because it contains more vitamin K2 than any other food source. He also warns that most Westerners will not like natto's taste and texture. Nonetheless, you should at least try it a few times. I am a Westerner and have been eating natto every day. It is an acquired taste, like tobacco. You may not like it the first time you try it, but you will soon grow to love it. It is easy to find in any large US city, just look for a Japanese grocery store. You can easily find online videos that show you how to use prepare and eat it.

Great book on Vit. K2 and how lack of our Dr.s knowledge is disabling our bones and CV system.So glad I found this book to help me find my way through the DX of Osteoporosis and Supplementing with K2 instead of further breaking down my bones by using Bisphosphonates . My physician seemed to fail me with a curt answer of " just take the shots, you'll be fine!"😲 ..and no advice on what else I should do or even other choices.. So tired of Big Pharma making green off of our maladies 😞

Very interesting. Couldn't put it down.

This vitamin is important in determining where calcium goes to correct places such as bones and teeth and not in calcification of blood vessels or other inappropriate places

Very good book...

A very small book, but interesting. The subject is absorbing as there are so many things that k2 can do for you. Well worth a read.

I would recommend everyone read this little book. Vitamin K2 is vitally important yet never spoken about. Get the knowledge then go and act upon it.