Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

Let's talk about why it's better to give your kids more butter.

Now as a child, I craved butter.

I remember as a child, always consuming way more butter than anyone else.

In fact, I would go in the refrigerator and consume probably a half a pound of butter in one sitting.

A little did I know I was very, very deficient in vitamin K2.

And my body just went to the source of where you get K2 in grass-fed butter.

You can also get it in cheese, of course grass-fed.

It's in grass-fed meat. It's in egg yolks.

It's also in fermented veggies.

And so why is this vitamin K2 so important for infants and children?

Well, because vitamin K2 is intimately involved in the development of your facial bones, okay?

Your facial structure, your teeth, preventing cavities and premature calcification of the cartilage in your, at the end of your bones.

And so if you don't have enough vitamin K2, instead of having the normal cartilage that allows your bones to grow,

you can have a calcification of that cartilage and end up actually just being shorter than you should be.

Vitamin K2 is essential in protecting the heart, keeping the calcium out of the arteries and in the bones.

Vitamin K2 is not just important for your facial bones and preventing cavity.

It's good for everything connected to your teeth and even possibly preventing someone from getting braces because they have good dental structure.

There is a really good book that I read that's called Nutrition in Physical Degeneration by Weston Price written in 1945.

An amazing book written by a dentist who traveled around the world looking for why certain traditional cultures had very good health, perfect teeth, perfect dental structure.

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