Does vitamin K2 prevent vascular calcification?
The benefits of vitamin K for cardiovascular disease gained attention by a Dutch study called the “Rotterdam study”. The study, which involved over 4,800 people over a ten year period, revealed that increased dietary intake of specifically vitamin K2 significantly reduced the risk of CHD mortality by 50 percent as compared to low dietary vitamin K2 intake. These results were confirmed in an animal study in which rats received a diet exhausting their vitamin K stores, resulting in inactive vitamin K-depending proteins leading to the major calcification of their arteries. Vitamin K2 was capable of completely inhibiting arterial calcification. Now, new clinical research carried out by researchers at the University of Maastricht revealed that vitamin K2 can stop the calcification of the arteries and may even reverse it. The new study was published in April 2007 in the American Hematology Society journal Blood. How should K2 Solo be taken? Simply take one Nutra K2 Solo tablet a day to get t
