
Another note on calcium and its relationship to vitamin K2. Calcium is a mineral that has been scientifically shown to play a key role in the activation of immunity cells in the body. There is only one way to effectively metabolise calcium and to ensure that it ends up reaching these cells: adequate intake of both vitamin D3 and vitamin K2. These two vitamins work together to promote calcium absorption and to maintain desirable levels of calcium in the blood.
When your blood calcium levels are low, your immunity is compromised. Therefore it stands to reason that one of the most commonly reported symptoms of vitamin K2 deficiency (often, unsurprisingly, misdiagnosed) is frequent bouts of illness and a propensity to catch every cold and virus going. If this sounds like you, you should consider taking a supplement.
What non-dietary factors can cause vitamin K2 deficiency?
There are also a host of non-dietary factors that may contribute to or worsen K2 deficiency. These include:
- Current antibiotic use
- Long-term antibiotic use
- Following a low fat diet
- Fat malabsorption conditions
- Fat blocking pills (commonly marketed as weight-loss supplements)
- Some cholesterol-lowering drugs
- Dilantin use during pregnancy
- GI tract diseases
- Liver diseases
- Estrogen drugs, including HRT
- Anticoagulants and blood thinning medication, such as Warfarin
Who's at highest risk for vitamin K2 deficiency?
Children (particularly babies) and adults over 40 are most likely to be vitamin K2 deficient, but as we saw above, deficiency or insufficiency affects approximately 97% of adults so almost all of us need to take a K2 supplement.
Unless you're eating animal fats, organ meats, and fermented foods on a regular basis - which, let’s face it, most of us are not - then you are exceedingly likely to be deficient or insufficient in vitamin K2. Unless you are in the 3% of people who have enough vitamin K2 in their blood, you’ll need to supplement.
LYMA contains clinically-backed K2 VITAL® DELTA - the world’s most bioavailable form of vitamin K2. If you’re supplementing with LYMA you will be getting an optimised daily clinical dose of 75µg of vitamin K2. As we heard, vitamin K2 cannot hope to function to augment your health unless taken in combination with vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 plays a fundamental role in many aspects of health, ranging from disease prevention to warding off osteoporosis, boosting your immune system and keeping your heart, lungs and brain healthy. LYMA provides an optimised dose of 2,000 i.u. of Vita-Algae D3™ (as opposed to the standard dose of 600 i.u. found in most generic supplements).
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