what if there was a vitamin out there
that improved exercise performance that
in men help optimize their testosterone
in women help optimize their female
hormones what if there was a bottoming
out there that made you more insulin
sensitive and promoted a healthier blood
sugar what if there was a vitamin out
there that helped make your bones and
teeth stronger that helped to prevent
osteoporosis bone fractures and tooth
cavities what if there was a vitamin out
there that helped prevent kidney stone
formation and actually help dissolve
existing kidney stones what if there was
a vitamin out there that helped protect
you against many different cancers well
there is a vitamin out there like that
it's called vitamin k2 and that's what
this video is about now you may have
heard of vitamin k1 it's found in dark
leafy green vegetables and it is
important some people can convert
vitamin k1 into vitamin k2 but many have
a problem with this conversion and so
they wind up deficient in vitamin k2
even though they're eating lots of dark
brief leafy green vegetables I'm dr. ken
berry a family physician with 20 years
of clinical experience and we're going
to talk about the best sources of
vitamin k2 that you can get in your diet
in this video there hasn't been nearly
enough research done yet on all the
benefits of vitamin k2 indeed there's
not even a recommended daily intake on a
u.s. federal government it's almost like
vitamin k2 is not even only official
radar now there are supplements you can
buy a vitamin k2 both MK 4 and MK 7 but
many of these come from synthetic
sources and I worry about the ability of
your body to absorb these and use them
in the proper manner what I would much
prefer you do is eat vitamin k2 rich
foods because we know that after
millions of years of eating these foods
we've developed mechanisms to assimilate
and absorb and utilize that vitamin k2
found in the natural foods that we've
been eating so here's the
the first and foremost and I'm sorry if
you don't want to hear this but the best
source of vitamin k2 that you can get in
your diet is liver whether liver is from
beef chicken pork wild game it doesn't
matter but the liver of any animal is an
excellent concentrator of vitamin k2 the
liver does not store toxins but it
absolutely stores vitamin k2 which you
need the next great source is the yolk
of any egg and and you want to get
pastured eggs just like you want to get
deliver from a pastured animal if you
can find it and if you can afford it but
the yolk is a very rich source of all
the fat soluble vitamins including
vitamin k2 beef is also an excellent
source not nearly as good as liver and
yolks but it also has some vitamin k2 in
it and most animal sources are in the
mk4 form most people can effortlessly
convert vitamin mk4 vitamin k2 MK 4 into
MK 7 and back again that conversion is
much less worrisome than the conversion
of vitamin k1 to vitamin k2 so eating
any cut of beef especially a fatty cut
is going to give you a supply of vitamin
k2 any chicken also especially the dark
meat of chicken the legs the thighs and
the wings with the skin on is going to
be a pretty darn good source of vitamin
k2 next is the real fermented cheese's
so this this can't be a cheese food
product or a cheese like pseudo cheese
substance this has to be real fermented
cheese and these cheese's will actually
have the mk4 version of vitamin k2 but
they may also have some mk7 because of
the bacterial component of the
fermentation process so cheeses are an
excellent source of vitamin k2 next is
pork any cut of pork it doesn't matter
if it's if it's a non-gmo organic pork
chop or if it's processed bacon we
sausage or pepperoni any pork has a good
supply of vitamin k2 and then the final
one is sounds like a vegetarian source
but it's not and that's properly
fermented natto
and this is actually comes from soybeans
that are fermented and if you don't do
this properly then you don't break down
all the inflammatory estrogenic parts of
the soy and you'd also don't get the
vitamin k2 but if it's properly
fermented natto then you can get a good
dose of vitamin k2 from that I leaked a
good source of a vitamin k2 supplement
that has a blend of MK 4 and MK 7 in the
show notes below just in case you hate
all these foods that I just talked about
but I would much prefer you get your
vitamin k2 from real food sources
because I think it's going to help you
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