In , Dr. Could this be the reason that vitamin K2 MK-4 is often not detected in the blood, because it is attached to a carrier protein? Little to no research has been done to answer these questions. K3 then travels to the liver for detoxification and is somehow transported in the blood or lymph by an unexplained carrier to tissues where an unknown enzyme s adds side chains back to K3 producing vitamin K2 MK The question is, what happens if K3 exceeds the rate at which the enzyme can add back the side chains, as when someone is taking K3 as a supplement?
Does the excess K3 cause toxicity and oxidative stress? The research is unclear. What we do know is that K3 causes disruption or rupture of red blood cells, toxic reactions in liver cells and depletion of glutathione; it weakens the immune system and can cause allergic reactions.
The research points strongly to the conclusion that humans need to get their vitamin K2 as MK-4 from food sources. After all, we evolved eating vitamin K2 MK And finally, MK-4 is more efficient than other forms, appearing in food with other synergists and activators that work together to maintain therapeutic aspects. The best way to get active and efficiently assimilated vitamin K2 is from food. This is true of all vitamins. Vitamin K-dependent proteins VKDP are a group of proteins providing life-giving functions for the brain and body.
In other words, vitamin K2 MK-4 is multifunctional. The in vitro assays validated the in silico predictions. All states of MK-4 exhibited stable values. K1 epoxide and quinone remained inside the VKORC1 enzyme and did not interact with the membrane, although K1 was not as stable in the hydroquinone state. MK-7 showed the highest fluctuations leading to MK-7 binding failure. In vitro MK-7 showed weak activity and was ten times lower than vitamin K1 epoxide; these results were in line with the in silico prediction.
K3 in vitro had no activity. See Figure 1. Tail length does matter! In , we contacted the Weston A. Price Foundation. The Foundation asked whether we had ever tested emu oil for vitamin K2. We had never heard of vitamin K2! The results put us on the path of a serendipitous journey. Emu oil is a whole food with a unique synergy of nutrients; it is the highest naturally occurring source of vitamin K2 MK Emu oil is an ancestral food and bush medicine of the indigenous Australians.
The beneficial properties have long been known to the Aboriginals to reduce pain and inflammation, with documentation recorded more than one hundred years ago. Just as Price found the amount of Activator X vitamin K2 MK-4 varies with the species of cow and what it eats, these same facts apply to emus.
Not all emu oils have the same benefits or characteristics. Genetics, feed, husbandry and refining are all huge components to having the most biologically active emu oil. Testing on two American emu oils detected no vitamin K2 MK Weston Price has left us a tremendous legacy: the collective knowledge of thousands of years of ancestral wisdom and instinct as a guide to maintaining bountiful, joyful health, generation after generation.
How much vitamin K2 MK-4 was Dr. Price giving to his patients to heal caries and degenerative disease? In his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, he reports using one-half to one and one-half teaspoons per day, which translates to a range of ng to ng, or 0. After taking emu oil for a month she could read, and during the last teachers conference, her teacher gave her great compliments on her behavior.
A medical doctor in her late forties noticed a small cavity about a year ago. It was discolored and craterous. Recently she had a dental examination. The dentist could find no cavity and no receding gums. She attributes vitamin K2 MK-4 in emu oil for activating the vitamin K-dependent protein osteocalcin and healing the cavity.
A woman in her early seventies had undiagnosed Lyme disease for sixteen years. Her joints had all been seriously affected, and her body had so much inflammation that she was in constant pain. Price are presented in his classic volume Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
The book contains striking photographs of handsome, healthy primitives and illustrates in an unforgettable way the physical degeneration that occurs when human groups abandon nourishing traditional diets in favor of modern convenience foods. Available from NewTrends Publishing, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A.
Price is now available from Radiant Life I have been buying raw milk exclusively for my children the past year from a heritage cows grass fed farmer. Can anyone give me some good info about vit d and raw milk and if I should be supplementing with additional D? Sally Fallon Morell replies: There will be vitamin D in whole milk from pastured cows, but better sources are butter, egg yolks, lard, poultry liver and cod liver oil.
These should all be included in the diet of your children. You can get good and useful D3 from raw milk — but pasteurization destroys it. It is replaced, but I am unsure if D2 or D3 is used. It points out, however, that without adequate vitamin A, it causes liver damage.
The real reason to prefer raw milk, is that pasteurization destroys too many other good nutrients. It destroys immunoglobulins which can confer immunity to the things cows are immune to.
Modern studies on milk associate its use with an increased risk of cancer. Price pointed out cancer was virtually unknown among indigenous, isolated communities drinking milk, which was certainly, at the time, raw.
Price knew of about eight factors present in vitamin D, if memory serves. Hi there, I keep hearing so much about grass fed being extra helpful for CLA and X factor and nutrients, but what about during the winter months when that is unavailable?
We only use organic alfalfa. The natives subsequently developed multiple dental caries, jaw deformities, and infectious diseases, sometimes within one generation. A New Vitamin-Like Activator. In the edition of his book, Dr. Price also wrote about re-mineralizing teeth in patients with dental caries and improvement in facial structure. What he may not have known is that green grass contained vitamin K1 as part of the electron transport chain in photosynthesis.
How did the grass get into his butter? In Dr. The cows were not eating natto , but transformed the pasture into milk, and supposedly along with it the K1 in the grass into MK-4 menaquinone MK-4 is from the family of activators consisting of menaquinones, MK-4 to MK, which are collectively referred to as vitamin K MK-4 is the only member of this family NOT produced by bacterial fermentation.
No other MK-s are present in butter oil. Comparatively speaking, even though cow milk contains very little MK-4, butter contains a much higher amount. Although Dr.
Table 1. MK-4 is found in small amounts in animal foods, such as butter, cheese, and organ meats.
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