Welcome to the Dr. Berg, healthy ketone, intermittent fasting podcast, now your host, the man taking

your health to a whole new level, Dr. Eric Berg.

So today I'm going to talk about vitamin K2 and some of the functions that go way beyond

just dealing with bone formation.

We talk about vitamin K2.

Most people associate that with making your bones more solid and also removing the soft

tissue calcium from the joints or the arteries and then driving that into the bone.

And vitamin K2 works with vitamin D, but vitamin K2 does a lot more.

As far as the function of bone goes, we might think it's just a structural scaffolding

to hold everything together.

But bone not only provides a structural function, but it's vital in making immune cells.

A lot of your immune cells originate from the bone marrow, but there's another interesting

function.

Your bone acts as an endocrine gland.

It makes a hormone called osteocalcin, has to do with a hormone that can affect your

blood triggers.

And it just so happens that vitamin K2 triggers this hormone.

So vitamin K2 has the capacity of improving insulin resistance.

And when I say improving insulin resistance, I'm not talking about worsening insulin resistance,

talking about making it better, because vitamin K2 can increase insulin sensitivity.

And there's so many people on this planet right now that have a problem with insulin resistance

without being aware of it.

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