Vitamin K1 vs. K2: What’s the Difference? - YouTube

recently i realized that i don't have a video  comparing vitamin k1 to vitamin k2 so i wanted to  

create this video to talk about each one vitamin  k1 has everything to do with blood clotting  

and bone metabolism if you're deficient in  vitamin k1 you may have bruising or if you  

cut yourself and you're bleeding and it's taking  a very long time to clot or heal up you can be  

deficient in vitamin k1 also if you have if you  have bleeding gums if you're brushing your teeth  

now that could be also vitamin c but it could  also be a deficiency of vitamin k1 so vitamin k1  

is very very important to your survival because if  you didn't have it and you got injured you could  

literally bleed to death internally or externally  so based on that our bodies have made sure that we  

rarely ever run out of vitamin k1 and on top  of that there's so many different foods that  

we eat that have vitamin k1 it's very unlikely  you're going to be deficient especially since  

the requirement for k1 are not even milligrams  they're in micrograms so we need very small  

amounts to satisfy the requirements now where do  you get vitamin k1 primarily from plant sources  

now vitamin k1 is also in animal foods as well  but not in the amounts that you would get from  

plants like leafy greens now just to switch over  to vitamin k2 this nutrient has everything to  

do with calcium control it prevents calcium from  accumulating in your vascular system and it also  

has everything to do with bone strength so it  keeps the calcium in the bone and it keeps the  

calcium out of the soft tissues and vitamin k2  is primarily in animal products like animal fat  

and it's also in fermented food like natto which  is a fermented soybean it's also in sauerkraut  

but it's very very high in beef liver for example  or pork liver or pork proteins or chicken or beef  

egg yolks soft cheeses so right  there you can see that our bodies  

were meant to consume both plant and animal  foods based on nutrients that our body needs  

now i realize that vitamin k is fat soluble so  the vitamin k1 in plants is very poorly absorbed  

in fact you only absorb less than 10 percent  of it good thing you don't need very much  

but it's very poorly absorbed but as a survival  mechanism what we've done to counteract that is we  

just recycle the vitamin k1 so if you're not  consuming much k1 our body's going to take what  

we have and keep recycling it over and over and  over now vitamin k2 is much better absorbed why  

because it comes with fat and any time  you consume a fat-soluble vitamin with  

fat you're going to absorb it more it's also  going to stimulate bile which is going to help  

you absorb that fat cycle vitamin so it's a  combination of bile and then the pancreatic  

enzyme called lipase that helps you break down the  food and absorb these nutrients more effectively  

now what most people do including myself when  you're doing a salad for example you're going to  

be using oil like olive oil to help the absorption  you're going to help the absorption of vitamin k1  

now one thing you need to know about vitamin  k2 is that the bacteria in your colon  

can actually make k1 from vitamin k2 so this is  another survival mechanism that if you have the  

microbes in your gut you'll be able to make  more k2 from k1 if you're on a low-fat diet  

that's going to be a problem to get this if  you have inflammation in your gut anywhere as  

diverticulitis or colitis or crohn's any digestive  issue you're going to have malabsorption you're  

not going to be able to absorb this one or this  one as well if you had your gallbladder removed  

that could also create a deficiency because you're  not going to make enough bile in which case you  

just need to take purified bile salts if you have  a fatty liver or your liver is damaged you're not  

going to be able to make bile to be able to use  that to absorb these two fat soluble vitamins  

as well if you're on a blood thinner  like warfarin that's going to block  

k1 and you will have deficiencies of that  and as a side note if you are on warfarin  

i have a video explaining the types of  vegetables you should be consuming which are low  

in vitamin k1 if you're interested in doing the  diet that i always recommend which is healthy keto  

basically you just eliminate the leafy  greens and you do other types of vegetables  

i put that video right down below alright guys  so now you know the difference between vitamin k1  

and k2 before you go if you have a question about  a product or you're new to keto and you want to  

know how to begin keto or you're on keto and you  need a debug because it's not going as smooth  

i have a keto consultant standing  by to help you this is just for the  

people in the u.s hopefully in the future  we'll be able to answer everyone's call  

but i put the number down below  so you can call and get some help