Maintaining healthy bones is not just about increasing your calcium intake. Did you know that alongside calcium you should also look into vitamins D and K2?
Vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 ensure that calcium is absorbed easily and reaches the bone mass, while preventing arterial calcification. Helping to keep your heart and bones healthy.
Separately, K2 regulates normal blood clotting, whilst D3 supports a healthy immune system and supports muscle function.
Vitamin D3 has been shown to provide a variety of benefits such as promoting bone health, supporting a healthy inflammatory response, supporting the immune system, and maintaining already-normal blood pressure levels. That’s why some consider the “sunshine vitamin” to be the most important vitamin in the body.
Did you know that this nutrient is also considered a hormone? This is because vitamin D3 can be synthesized naturally in our bodies in response to sunlight, can act as a signaling molecule, and nearly every cell in our body has receptors for it.
Most notably, it enhances calcium delivery by increasing the absorption of calcium through the intestinal walls. In fact, in the absence of vitamin D3, we only absorb 10-15% of calcium from the food we eat, but when vitamin D3 is present, the calcium absorption is increased to 30-40%.
Vitamin K is another fat-soluble vitamin that exists in two forms: vitamin K1 (phylloquinone, mainly found in green leafy vegetables) and vitamin K2 (menaquinone, mainly found in fermented dairy and produced by specific bacteria in the intestine). Vitamin K2 is the more bioavailable form, and it remains in the body longer.
Both vitamins have a strong safety profile even at high dosages. If you’re taking any medications, check with your doctor about your vitamin K intake, however.
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