Vitamin K: The Ultimate Guide to What It Is, Where to Find It, Core Benefits, and Why You Need It
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In Vitamin K: The Ultimate Guide to What It Is, Where to Find It, Core Benefits, and Why You Need It, you'll learn the various health benefits and powers of Vitamin K. Have you ever wondered why your mother always told you leafy green vegetables were healthy? Well one of the reasons is because of the power of Vitamin K in your every day life. Read on to learn about this fat soluble vitamin that can improve your overall health.
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Just as our bones are important to our stature, vitamin K is essential to our bones’ stature. This fat-soluble vitamin plays several significant roles in our bodies. It is necessary for our circulatory as well as skeletal systems. Everyone is aware of the importance of calcium—but did you know that without vitamin K, our bodies cannot use calcium properly? In fact, without vitamin K, calcium can damage our bodies. Vitamin K is a major factor in whether or not our blood coagulates properly and our veins remain clear. We will explore its benefits in greater detail throughout this text.
While the vitamins required by the human body in this group are often referred to simply as vitamin K, this term encompasses many different, yet molecularly similar nutrients. The most commonly referenced chemicals in this group are vitamin K1 and vitamin K2.
Is it fair to say vitamin K is unrecognized for its worth? How often did you hear your mom telling you as a child eat something because you needed vitamin K? Not often, if even at all, right?
In part, that is because we usually have sufficient amounts of vitamin K in our diets to avoid the most noticeable symptoms of deficiency, like blood clotting. However, some symptoms are less immediately obvious yet equally unhealthy over the long term. When mom told you that you needed to drink your milk to have healthy bones, she was giving calcium credit where it is due—but our bones need vitamin K. Sufficient levels of vitamin K in the body have been linked to reducing the frequency of fractures in women that have developed osteoporosis as they aged. This also suggests that insufficient amounts over the long term might weaken bones.
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