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2. Vitamin K2 is essential to your health. But taking ... - AOL

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   Vitamin K2 is lauded for a number of important health benefits, including boosting your bones, teeth and cardiovascular system.. A new study suggests taking vitamin K2 could prevent and stall the ...

3. Vitamin K2 - Wikipedia

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   Vitamin K 2 or menaquinone (MK) (/ ˌ m ɛ n ə ˈ k w ɪ n oʊ n /) is one of three types of vitamin K, the other two being vitamin K 1 (phylloquinone) and K 3 . K 2 is both a tissue and bacterial product (derived from vitamin K 1 in both cases) and is usually found in animal products or fermented foods .

4. Is Vitamin K The Same Thing As Potassium? Doctors Explain - AOL

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   Vitamin K2 (menaquinone): Vitamin K2 supports bone and heart health. Fermented foods are excellent sources of it. ... Benefits of Vitamin K 1. Bone health. Research suggests that people who get ...

5. Vitamin K - Wikipedia

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   Vitamin K is a family of structurally similar, fat-soluble vitamers found in foods and marketed as dietary supplements. [1] The human body requires vitamin K for post-synthesis modification of certain proteins that are required for blood coagulation ("K" from Danish koagulation, for "coagulation") or for controlling binding of calcium in bones and other tissues. [2]

6. Menatetrenone - Wikipedia

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   MK-4 is the major form of Vitamin K in vertebrate animals, including humans and common forms of meat animals. It is produced via conversion of vitamin K 1 in the body, specifically in the testes, pancreas and arterial walls. [2] The conversion is not dependent on gut bacteria, occurring in germ-free rats [3] [4] and in parenterally-administered ...

7. Vitamin K deficiency - Wikipedia

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   Vitamin K 1-deficiency may occur by disturbed intestinal uptake (such as would occur in a bile duct obstruction), by therapeutic or accidental intake of a vitamin K 1-antagonist such as warfarin, or, very rarely, by nutritional vitamin K 1 deficiency. As a result, Gla-residues are inadequately formed and the Gla-proteins are insufficiently active.