Can You Take Vitamin K2 and D3 Everyday?

Victor Baez can I take a vitamin mk7 every day [Music] for the latest in health related information and ways to save your life check out the newsletter of course you can one of the things that I recommend for a lot of folks here's the thing so let me go back to Peter's comment D3 and K2 you see so many supplements with D3 and K2 together they typically will have a thousand international units of D3 which the vast majority of time is not nearly enough and maybe a hundred micrograms of K2 which to me is not nearly enough you look at the studies most of the studies that are dealt with K2 usually use at least 400 micrograms for me D3 would be 5000 minimum now so you could say well okay I'll take five of these vitamin d3k2s that's not a cost-effective way to do it I don't take any of the d3k2 together kind of things just because of those issues let me add another aspect to this issue as well D3 in mega doses can be very dangerous it can kill you it can wreck your kidneys K2 is not the same K2 and very big doses Mega doses is real relatively harmless and in fact is given and has been shown to be helpful for people with osteoporosis as in 45 milligram as opposed to the 100 microgram levels that you tend to see in these products that have D3 and K2 together so again it's that Urban myth thing oh well you want to get calcium out of your arteries and into your bones so you take the two things that help the D3 and the K2 and you put them together I just don't take that for the reason that I just discussed it's like these things you know where they try to make a car into an airplane or a car into a boat it's not a good car and it's not a good boat either well you know you try to make a vitamin D3 and K2 together it's not a good vitamin D3 supplement and it's not a good vitamin K2 supplement either so again I'm sure I'll get a lot of haters for that but that's my position and yes you can take it every day don't overdose on vitamin D3 we've seen plenty of cases of it and we've had a few people come on board and talk about their episodes with it you know one of them actually had started to get a significant decline in her kidney function we stopped her K3 she was seeing a doctor that uses these 50 000 International unit Doses and those are meant to be given once a week or less they're basically meant to get somebody back up to a normal level that's been really low this patient misunderstood and that's the most common problem one of the most common problems in terms of vitamin D3 overdose there's a misunderstanding between the provider and the patient or there's a patient thinking if a little bit's good a whole lot's got to be a lot better and they take these Mega doses of vitamin D3 every day which they're not meant to do we got that when the patient came in to see us for her initial we got a panic value back from the lab I called her she stopped taking her D3 we monitored her kidney function which was as I said had declined during that overdose period within about three months it had come back to normal she was relatively young in her 50s and it became a good story to tell vitamin K2 is not going to do that D3 will [Music]

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Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 24 2022