vitamin k paper

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vitamin k paper
Thu, 09-21-2006 - 3:44am

For those of you interested, I think this person's theories are spot on:

http://www.gutresearch.com/VitaminK.pdf

I have been eating high vit k foods for a number of weeks now. Mainly spinach!!! ack! Also wheat grass. Although I haven't been eating particularly healthy, just adding those to my diet has been noticeable. I have been pursuing personally this vit K link so that this paper came out just really confirmed and mirrored a lot of my personal experiences. I tend to get a lot of spider veins and within a few weeks of eating high vit k foods everyday, I actually had veins disappear. There are a lot of vit k creams so this isn't big news. My legs almost, almost look sexy again. LOL Interesting that the paper talks about soft tissue calcification...exactly what I have. 3 soft tissue calcifications in my hip and my toes. I imagine other places I don't know about are calcified as well. I haven't done a supplement and wouldn't at this point (without a doc) since it affects coagulation, but I kind of figure with myself, at least my body would know what to do with food. The exciting thing about this is I showed improvement from eating more k foods unlike I had trying to improve b12 with supplements or food. The thing with vit K is that altho fat soluble, it apparently doesn't hang around too long in the liver so it sounds a bit different than some of the other fat solubles like D or A so I think we would be okay eating it from foods more safely than eating even vit A or D in larger amounts from food. (I'm guessing here).

There's a mention on SCD here for those of you doing SCD.

I notice there's mention of vit k being in a lot of dairy, but I've had lots of dairy and it must not be enough or something inhibits the body from using it well from dairy. Not too sure soy or oils must be all that great of a source for some reason either even though they are listed as high. I think we need it from the high k green foods with the fats.

My kids will eat fresh spinach, but in light of recent spinach news, I will have to figure out something else. Isn't it interesting how many of the e.coli sufferers (71%)were women? I wonder if that's a gastro thing or a lifestyle thing.

Another interesting note to take into consideration, anything with supplemental potassium...even the potassium added in gatorade...causes me some major inflammation around those soft tissue calcifications I have. I have a lot more pain with supplemental calcium (food seems to be okay). I have a feeling it is related to k somehow (or calcium,etc). Just something I'm able to observe as an adult that I don't think a child could correlate. I think I've had this "loose calcium" issue from at least a teenager or younger. I am downline, many years damage. A child may not have anything to report because the damage may not necessarily be compounded by time and buildup.