The Unique Benefits of Using Vitamin D3 and K2 Combined

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about the potential benefits of taking vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 at the same time.

Vitamin K2 and vitamin D3 work closely together. Vitamin D3 supports the absorption of calcium in the small intestines. Vitamin K2 takes calcium from the blood and transports it to the bones and teeth. It also activates a protein that keeps calcium out of the arteries, joints, and other areas of the body where it shouldn’t be.

Vitamin K2 has many additional potential benefits, from supporting healthy blood sugar levels to improving wrinkles.

Animal fats are a great source of the MK4 version of vitamin K2. A different form of vitamin K2, called MK7, comes from bacteria in foods like cheese and fermented foods. People who cut fatty foods from their diet are at risk for a vitamin K2 deficiency.

Foods high in vitamin K2:

• Grass-fed butter and ghee

• Hard and soft cheeses

• Egg yolks

• Goose liver, chicken liver, and beef liver

• Hot dogs

• Salmon

If someone chooses to take a vitamin K2 supplement, they may want to consider the MK7 version. For every 10,000 IU of vitamin D3, I suggest taking 100 MCG of vitamin K2.

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about the benefits from using Vitamin D3 and K2 at the same time.
0:06.2	I think the best way to start this presentation is to talk about this calcium paradox.
0:11.8	A paradox is two things that sound logical but they conflict in a certain way.
0:16.2	And the calcium paradox relates to like women, post-menopausal, that have bone loss,
0:22.1	yet at the same time they have vascular calcification.
0:25.6	Now how can that be that sounds illogical? I mean how can you be losing bone
0:29.2	like a calcium deficiency and then at the same time you have excess calcium in the
0:33.4	the arteries it just doesn't make sense.
0:35.0	And another paradox called the French paradox
0:37.5	where you have people in France consuming
0:40.3	large quantities of saturated fat, yet at the same time they have lower rates of heart disease.
0:48.8	How can that be?
0:50.0	Is it the wine they're drinking?
0:52.0	Is it some phytolutrients? What is it? Well, what we're going to talk about now will
0:56.6	explain both paradoxes. There's some missing information that will make everything makes sense.
1:02.1	All right, so let's start with Vitamin D3.
1:05.2	Most people know that Vitamin D3 helps the absorption of calcium in the
1:12.1	intestines by a factor of 20 x so you could absorb a lot
1:16.7	more calcium when you have vitamin D in your gut where does the calcium go it goes in in your blood. Now is that dangerous? Is that a problem?
1:25.6	Are you going to develop too much calcium in the blood? That's called hypercalcemia?
1:29.2	Now there is conflicting studies on that. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and the next
1:34.1	thing I'm going to tell you will explain that inconsistency too. It has to do
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