The #1 Food Highest in Vitamin K2

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today we're going to talk about vitamin K2, and I'm going to share the best source of vitamin K2.

While vitamin K1 supports blood clotting, vitamin K2 supports calcium transportation. Vitamin K2 works with vitamin D. Vitamin K2 and vitamin D3 are important to take together.

Vitamin D raises calcium in the blood, but vitamin K2 pushes calcium from the blood into the bone. Vitamin K2 also uses LDL cholesterol as part of its transportation process.

The health benefits of vitamin K2:

• It supports healthy bones

• It supports strong teeth

• It helps prevent calcium from building up in the arteries, cartilage, and joints

• It helps support healthy blood sugar levels

• It helps generate ATP (energy)

• It supports healthy testosterone levels

• It supports the brain

Vitamin K1 and vitamin K2 are fat-soluble—low-fat diets may lead to a vitamin K2 deficiency. Cheese, especially hard cheese, is a rich source of vitamin K2, with Muenster cheese at the top of the list.

Other foods high in vitamin K2:

• Grass-fed butter

• Goose liver

• Duck liver

• Duck fat

• Eel

• Beef liver

• Lamb's liver

• Ground beef

• Grass-fed hot dogs

• High-quality bacon

• Pork

• Sauerkraut

• Cod liver oil

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the number one food that has the most vitamin K2.
0:05.0	But I want to just cover a little bit of history on vitamin K2.
0:08.3	And you see this book right here is called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr.
0:12.8	Weston Price. Okay. He was a dentist, but he did a lot of research back in the 30s and the 40s.
0:19.8	And he visited these remote cultures that ate very, very healthy foods. And he was trying to
0:26.2	identify what was it about their diet that generated such amazing teeth. As compared to nowadays,
0:34.4	everyone needs braces. You know, we have our wisdom teeth pulled because there's not
0:37.8	enough space in our skull. The teeth are overcrowded. A lot of problems with overbite,
0:42.9	underbite. Not to mention my teeth. I pretty much had cavities in every single tooth in my skull.
0:48.3	So, Weston Price looked at calcium. He looked at the fat-civil vitamins. Maybe at first,
0:54.0	he thought it was vitamin D or vitamin A or vitamin E. But at the time, vitamin K2 wasn't
0:59.4	identified. And so it was really interesting that he had a term for it called activator X.
1:06.4	Kind of like the X factor. There's something in addition to these regular fat-civil vitamins
1:11.6	that is creating really good teeth, like really good bones, good bone structure, and overall good
1:18.4	health. He just didn't know about vitamin K2 because it wasn't discovered yet. And so he looked
1:22.9	at cultures in the Swiss Alps. And he found that they ate a lot of
1:27.0	breastfed butter and cheese and really, really natural things. And so he identified their teeth
1:33.6	being just like really, really good. Fast forward, we know now it's vitamin K2. There's vitamin K1.
1:40.7	That's all about clotting. And then there's vitamin K2, which is all about calcium transportation.
1:46.8	Vitamin K2 works with vitamin D. Vitamin D helps a person absorb calcium in the intestines
1:53.7	by a factor of 20 times. If someone doesn't have enough vitamin D, calcium really won't be absorbed
1:59.5	in the blood too well. And so vitamin D is all about raising calcium in the blood. But vitamin K2
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