Why Vitamin K2 is So Important and How to Get It Naturally

hello i'm dr marianne teitelbaum today we're going to talk about vitamin k2 now the information i'm about to present to you is extremely important for you to understand i've made lots of videos which are all important in teaching you how to take care of your body but i would highly recommend you listen to this one a few times so you fully understand it because most people are unwittingly making lots of mistakes which i'll be discussing here causing all kinds of health problems from osteoporosis to cancer and diabetes heart disease and just about any other disease you can think of and the answer to curing all these diseases lies in preventing them from occurring in the first place and it's so easy to do you just have to know this very important piece of the puzzle that i'm about to present here let me tell you a little story of how this information was first discovered at least here in the western world of course the enlightened rishis of india who cognized ayurveda already knew this information but it took a very long time for that to reach the countries outside of india so we had to learn it in a slow arduous way and in fact most of us still haven't learned it and that includes most doctors as well as the laypersons so here goes in the 1930s one of the most prominent health researchers and dentists of the 20th century dr weston a price spent 10 years traveling the world in search of the secrets to perfect health and longevity he went to both remote places and the crowded cities of 14 different countries looking for healthy people and doing extensive research on them he wanted to see what their secret was for their robust health compared to the poor health the americans were experiencing he found that those people who ate their indigenous foods had strong bones and perfect dental arches minimal tooth decay high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health compared to those people who were introduced to modern foods like white refined flour white refined sugar refined vegetable oils and canned and processed goods in other words those who ate the food the way nature intended whole grains fresh fruits and vegetables nuts and seeds meats and dairy products were extremely healthy he ended up writing a book called nutrition and physical degeneration comparing the health statistics and photographs of those eating healthy with those who were eating processed foods it became obvious to him after visiting so many people that those who ate the processed foods were much sicker than their indigenous counterparts who still lived in nature eating the wholesome foods which grew in the areas in which they lived but there was something that intrigued him for years and he devoted a whole chapter discussing it in his book and this is what i would like to talk to you about today because just knowing this one bit of information will go a long way into giving you the radiant health that you're seeking he had discovered a new fat soluble vitamin at first he thought it was vitamin d but then he quickly realized it wasn't that it hadn't been discovered yet so he just called it activator x he believed it was a missing nutrient in our modern diet and that its absence could explain many of our modern diseases he was able to to heal dental cavities reduce oral bacteria and restore life to sick and starving children who were near death by changing their diet to a more wholesome one which included this activator x along with the natural unprocessed foods he said activator x was found in the butter fat of milk in the eggs of fishes and the organs and fats of animals its highest concentration was found in milk when the cows were eating grasses especially the quickly grown grasses which grow in the spring he said it was also synthesized by the mammary glands and therefore found in breast milk and it played an important role in infant growth and development as well as fertility and reproduction now he said that milk contained high amounts of this activator x but it was even more concentrated in the butter but he found he could concentrate the amounts further by centrifuging the butter and making a high vitamin butter oil which he called it years later a name was given to this unknown fat soluble vitamin it is now called vitamin k k2 vitamin k1 is found in green leafy vegetables but dr price was specifically talking about this version known as vitamin k2 found in animal fats milk butter and butter oil now here's where the confusion lies vitamin k2 has differing types of side chains represented as mk4 to mk13 now mk means monoquinone mk5 through mk13 are formed by bacterial synthesis but the mk4 is dr price's activator x which is unique and it's the only form that is not the byproduct of bacterial synthesis but it comes from animal sources so it's the mk4 from animal fats like milk butter and butter oil which give the very important health benefits note that butter and concentrated butter products like ghee contain 100 mk4 there are no bacterial mk's in these products mk4 is the fat found in nature which is designed for the growth and nourishment of all mammals only vitamin mk only vitamin k and mk4 are found in the umbilical cord blood the placenta actually blocks the mk7 while allowing the mk4 into the unborn child and high concentrations of mk4 are also found in the placenta and mk4 is needed for the development of the child in fact the traditional sacred foods for preconception and pregnancy were foods rich in mk4 and babies were always weaned onto foods containing high amounts of mk4 mk4 also helps in building strong bones and strong teeth it also prevents cancer diabetes and other serious diseases so let's stop right here and examine this a little further this is very interesting let's look at the amounts of mk4 found in certain fats now whole milk contains 10 units butter jumps up to 90 units as you concentrate the fat out of the milk and dr price concentrated the butter fat more by centrifuging the butter and creating a butter oil which contains 196 to 240 units but look at this ghee contains the absolute highest amount which is 270 to 360 units the ancient doctors were so wise to recommend concentrating the mk4 in this way of course they didn't have the name for mk4 but they knew at their high level of consciousness that eating ghee the essence of the cow's milk would be very good for the developing child's brain as well as for the mother's fertility now we have solid research showing how correct they were and they knew how to make it very concentrated by making yogurt from heavy cream churning that into butter and then simmering out the water and dairy solids which is known as clarifying the butter which concentrates the mk4 vitamin k2 directs any and all calcium that comes into your body into the teeth and bones and away from the arteries joints and other organs and glands for good reason this is why dr price found hundreds of specimens of people who had problems with their teeth and dental arches who were deficient in mk4 but those who ate these concentrated forms of fats had no problems with their bones or teeth and again the ancient doctors were prescient in stating that the fat tissue was the raw material for the bone that you need a good quality fat tissue to be converted into good quality bone tissue now here's the sad part for years doctors have been telling people to avoid cholesterol and eat low-fat diets just about the whole world changed their eating habits and started ingesting refined vegetable oils once doctors proclaimed that we should discard butter and instead eat margarine even in india ghee factories opened up making ghee for margarine this is when our health really took a nose dive people started developing osteoporosis dental cavities arthritis and heart disease at epidemic levels women became infertile and children began developing all forms of speech and developmental delays even to this day most restaurants continue to cook with the blend of refined vegetable oils this is even true of all the health food stores who advertise that their baked goods are baked with oils and not butter thinking that this is a healthy thing to do and then they don't realize that these oils oxidize at these very high baking temperatures and are very dangerous for our health it became obvious that when you heat the vegetable oils they form a plastic which clogs the arteries causing all the strokes and heart attacks that we're witnessing today so nowadays people are moving away from the polyunsaturated vegetable oils and instead are turning towards eating the more saturated fruit oils like avocado and coconut oil these oils are somewhat heavy and hard to digest people should learn about ghee it is saturated but it's very easy to digest and it provides the very high doses of vitamin k2 mk4 that our bodies crave this was also very interesting to note dr price called this nutrient activator x because he said that it acted as an activator or catalyst which aided in the absorption and assimilation of all the nutrients from our diets the protein minerals and vitamins he stated quote it is possible to starve for minerals that are abundant in the foods eaten because they cannot be utilized without an adequate quantity of the fat soluble activators unquote in other words the amounts of nutrients we absorb into our cells depends on these fat soluble vitamins the ancient doctors knew this as well which is why ghee is used as the base of many ayurvedic herbal preparations the herbs are cooked into the gate because the ghee delivers them across the cell wall and eating ghee in the diet does in fact enhance the absorption of all the nutrients we eat in our food since all the cell walls in our body are made out of cholesterol and ghee becomes the vehicle to drag the nutrients across those fatty cell wall membranes and into our cells keep in mind the food we eat can't help you much unless it gets broken down and absorbed into the inside of your cells it does no good if it's on the outside and here's the other problem now that vitamin k2 has been discovered it's being put in all the synthetic vitamin d supplements since k2 helps ensure that the calcium transported by the vitamin d is absorbed into your bones where it's needed rather than being deposited in your arteries where it's not needed but the type of vitamin k2 that we get in supplements is mk7 yep the type rejected by the plazana as we just mentioned not the type we get in food the best way to get active and efficiently assimilated vitamin k2 is from food now an nih funded study involving 27 000 people over six year period found that the health benefits associated with adequate intakes of vitamins came from getting these nutrients through eating food as opposed to taking the synthetic vitamin supplements there has been other research in 2018 by nolan chatron and his group who demonstrated that mk4 had strong binding in the tissues whereas the mk7 showed shaky binding and no stability leading to mk7 binding failure which means that it's not bioactive and at a very deep level cannot be utilized by the tissues mk4 on the other hand is very strong in its binding capacity very stable and promotes healthy binding of calcium so it can be taken to the teeth and bones and away from the tissues and arteries and this all points up again to what the ancient rishis were trying to tell us we want our nutrients to contain pranic energy which means that they should be grown outside under the healing rays of the sun and the moon this echoes dr price when he stated that synthetic supplementation drowns out the wisdom of our ancestors the knowledge that all health starts with nutrient-dense whole foods as dr price has stated quote people of the past obtained a substance that modern generations do not have unquote and now we know this substance is his activator x now known as vitamin k2 mk4 and dr royal lay another famous dentist researcher and founder of standard process lab stated quote just as the chemist cannot create life neither can he create a complex vitamin the life element in foods and nutrition this is a mystery the chemist has not solved and probably never will unquote and keep this in mind there's a widespread deficiency of vitamin k2 mk4 in the world due to our aversion to eating animal fat animals raised eating anything other than grass factory farming of animals high antibiotic use in animal feeds and in humans animal fed gmo corn and soy soil depletion glyphosate processed foods and dysfunctions of the gut and if you're taking a statin or a blood thinner these drugs create a deficiency of vitamin k2 as they lower the cholesterol that the body so desperately needs to stay healthy and to make matters worse many people are choosing plant-based milks over full-fat cow's milk because it's been drummed into their mind from an early age that cholesterol is bad for you then it should be avoided at all costs and by doing so they don't realize that they're eliminating one of nature's most important foods fortunately it's becoming easier and easier to get high quality whole milk from cows who haven't been given any antibiotics or growth hormones and are out grazing in the pastures eating untreated grass now as we grow into old age we're entering what is known as the vata stage of life which means the element of dryness becomes more prominent in our bodies therefore it becomes important for us to keep lubricating various parts of our bodies because if our joints get dry we could suffer arthritic aches and pains the brain needs a continuous supply of cholesterol to prevent dementia the hormones that keep you young estrogen and progesterone in women and testosterone in men are made out of cholesterol and even if we're postmenopausal we still make these hormones which means we need to give our glands the raw materials the cholesterol to make these important hormones well into old age and always remember this cholesterol comes from an animal so while avocados coconuts nuts seeds and other plant-based fats may be good for many other bodily functions they do not contain the much-needed cholesterol that the body needs we need to keep up our intake of good fats since it's the fat tissue that transforms into the bone tissue we also need to nourish the fatty layers in our skin to prevent the drying sagging and wrinkling that that could occur with old age and don't forget our skin also needs a constant supply of cholesterol since the sunlight hitting the skin converts the cholesterol into not only vitamin d but also serotonin melatonin endorphins and many other hormones and neurotransmitters that the brain and the body need to function properly so it's important for us to keep up our intake of fats and understand which are the most important sources of the highly important vitamin k2 mk4 found in milk at higher levels in butter with the highest amounts found in ghee made from grass-fed cow butter there's a reason why our elderly ancestors ate more of this fatty nutrient as they aged we should listen to this wisdom and pass it on to future generations thank you

Channel: Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

Views: 110,426

Keywords: Vitamin K2, drmteitelbaum, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Activator X, Vitamin K, Clarified Butter, MK-4, MK-7

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Length: 17min 32sec (1052 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 11 2022