Derek Segima hi Dr. Brewer is vitamin k2 a reasonable tactic in one's overall
plaque reduction approach if so how long should one take it
nobody knows but here's what I think I've got half a dozen videos on vitamin
K2 at first I only looked at the randomized
clinical trials that I could find one of them was the most
well-known and I'm blanking on the name of the
study (Rotterdam trial)
it was a it was a town it was named after a town
in the Netherlands and it did show some effect but in most
of those studies they didn't delineate K2 versus K1 I agree there's
some K1 impact in there but it's really mostly K2 that we're looking at in terms
of plaque and then I read a couple of books where
they talked about I won't say pseudoscience maybe science ultralight
what they were talking about was vitamin K2 and
gee dairy products from cows that had been fed grass
grass-fed cattle said it a thousand times but here's what happened
I started looking at the science around that and I found the
K2 is very important in a couple of enzymes
MGP I think is the name MGP and osteocalcin both enzymes which move
calcium in and out of bones and in and out of other tissue
so maybe that's where people get the focus on calcium and K2
but here's what else is going on I mean those same enzymes
MGP and especially osteocalcin have some sort of relationship
with insulin resistance so I suspect so I do think that K2
works I do take it I take about unlike supplement your typical
supplement where you'll see 100 micrograms per day
I take about 400 I take 200 in supplementation and then I take another
200 in a natto powder that I add to my
smoothie each morning here's the final comment I actually did find
a randomized clinical trial where they gave relatively young I mean I'm
remembering maybe 40s and 50s men relatively healthy other than having
prediabetes they gave them like 400 micrograms per
day of K2 and so a significant improvement
in their insulin resistance if you're thinking well why don't you make a video
on that I thought that must have been a year ago
and I've got a long list of videos I still
need to make obviously so yes short answer is yes Derek
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