Vitamin K2 Reduces Heart Disease by 57 Percent

Dr Leon Schurgers says vitamin K2 can reduce heart disease by 57 percent. Dr. Schurgers is a graduate of the prestigious University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He currently leads research at the world renowned Cardiovascular Research Institute.
Research shows that Americans have too much calcium in their arteries and not enough in their bones. It's called the Calcium paradox. And it leads to osteoporosis and heart disease.
Dr Schurgers says that it is not because we get too little calcium in our diet, but because we get too little vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 controls where your calcium goes. That is the key to heart health.
A diet rich in vitamin K2 get calcium into your bones while removing it from your arteries. If your diet is low in vitamin K2, you get calcium deposits in your arteries. That leads to plaque and calcification and ends in heart disease and heart attack.
Headed up by Dr. Schurgers, the Rotterdam Heart Study followed 4,800 participants for seven years. It's the largest clinical trial to directly link vitamin K2 to heart disease.
The study showed that people who got plenty of vitamin K2 in their diet had 57 percent fewer heart attacks than those who didn't.
The study also showed that plaque results when calcium leaves you bones and ends up in your arteries. This plaque leads to heart disease. It presents heart disease in a whole new light.
If there's a vitamin K2 there's got to be a vitamin K1. Vitamin Ki is found in green, leafy vegetables like spinach.
A study at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands studied 16,057 women for eight years. The women had no coronary heart disease at the start of the study. The studies followed their intake of vitamin K1 and vitamin K2. The women getting Vitamin K1 had 480 incidents of heart attack over the eight years. But the women getting vitamin K2 again had a 57 percent lower rate.
Researchers concluded that vitamin K1 had little effect on cardiovacular health, but vitamin K2 dramatically reduced it.
How do you get vitamin K2 into your diet? Vitamin K2 is found largely in meats and eggs. Be sure to buy lean UNPROCESSED meats. Also, a very good source of vitamin K2 is from vitamin K2 supplements or from the Japanese food Natto which is by far the richest source of vitamin K2.