Soften Your Arteries

We told you about the vitamin K2 as a supplement to vitamin D3 (PrS no. 74). But scientific work encourages us to pay particular attention to this single vitamin. A recent study conducted by the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and published by the prestigious journal Thrombosis and Haemostasis scientifically confirms the interest of vitamin K2 supplementation. as part of healthy blood vessels.

More specifically, this study supports the conclusions of two previous Dutch studies in which 20,000 Batavian subjects took part and which aimed to demonstrate that vitamin K2 supplementation has the effect of reduced stiffness of the arteries. It should be remembered that the vascular stiffness increases with age and is a risk factor for cardiovascular illnesses. This rigidity, by calcification of the arterial wall, causes a functional modification of the vascular wall, an unfortunately deleterious modification.

Conducted with 244 postmenopausal womenthe study reveals that after three years, vascular stiffness did not increase in the group that received vitamin K2 supplementation in the form of menaquinone-7 (MK-7), but that in addition, the flexibility of the arterial wall has improved.

Vitamin K2 supplementation also had beneficial effect on blood levels of a protein that play a very important role in the prevention of atherosclerosis : matrix protein GLA (MGP). Its effect is not only inhibitory (of arterial calcification), but its deficiency is so crippling that it has become a marker for evaluating the risks of cardiovascular diseases.

As a reminder, vitamin K2 in its menaquinone-7 form comes fromfermented foods. The resulting bacteria, such as Bacillus licheniformis (from lichen) and Bacillus subtilis natto (from fermented soybeans), have the advantage, in addition to producing large quantities, of providing vitamin K2 fully bioavailable.

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