Are you getting enough vitamin K2? Unless you’re eating good quality butter, cheese, grass-fed meats or natto, you probably aren’t. In this reader question and answer session, Dr. Kate Rheame-Bleue, author of Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox, joins us today to discuss the benefits of vitamin K2, where to find it and why you need it.
Kate Rheume-Bleue is a licensed primary care naturopathic physician and the author ofVitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life. As an educator, Dr. Kate is a frequent media guest and Canadian expert in natural medicine.
And just a note: I had some measure of difficulty with the sound control on this video (and there’s not much I can do about it). So if you have trouble listening, make sure to download the full transcript.
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get the book and get your vitamin k2
vitamin k2 and the calcium paradox
- Pick up the book Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life.
- Download the transcript of this interview.
- Learn more about Dr. Kate here.
books and blogs for further study
- Pick up the book that spurred Dr. Kate’s interest in vitamin K2: Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston Price, DDS.
- Take a look at Chris Masterjohn’s work, much of which has focused on activator X which we now believe to be vitamin K2.
where to buy vitamin k2 rich foods
- Pick up some high vitamin butter oil – a great source of K2.
- Purchase natto spores for making natto at home.
- You can learn how to make natto in Get Cultured! an online cooking class on fermented foods.
- Purchase cultures and starters for making vitamin K2-rich cheese at home.
- Get you some gouda!
- Load up on grass-fed ghee.
- And grass-fed butter like Kerrygold or Organic Valley, both of which are widely available in grocery stores nation-wide.
- Find a source of grass-fed raw milk and cream for your butter and cheese.
previous reader q & as
- Reader Questions on Proper Preparation of Whole Grains: When to Soak, When to Sour, When to Sprout and why grain-free diets aren’t for everyone.
- Reader Questions on Natural Bodycare: Because you shouldn’t put anything on your skin that you wouldn’t put in your mouth.
- Reader Questions on Bone Broth: Everything you need to know about preparing mineral-rich bone broths, broths and stocks.
next question and answer sessions
Our upcoming question and answer sessions will focus on kombucha – that ancient fermented tea and the relationship between dental health and traditional diets. So if you’ve got a question about kombucha, teeth, cavities, tooth remineralization or anything like that, please email it to questions@nourishedkitchen.com for inclusion.
Or if you have a suggestion for a future reader question and answer session, please email it toquestions@nourishedkitchen.com.
Great interview! Cream sound soooo fuggin dank
Hello,
I just ordered Dr.Kate’s book, but after listening to this, I’m thinking of canceling the book!!
The Reason Why:
Dr. Kate talks about K2, Which incompass’s more then one K2.. There is K2 MK-4, and K2 MK-7.
Both very different!
I’m now wondering if Dr. Kates book describes both K’s, or what K2 she is talking about??
Would like to get a answer Very soon, as then I would know to cancel the book now, Keep it , or return it!
Thank you,
C.
Get the book – It’s all in the book
I am/was very healthy 77 year old man who now has plaque in some arteries. This makes my heart beat slowly, making me very tired all the time, & dizzy some of the time. Drs. say I have vertigo because blood doesn’t get to my head fast enough when I stand up quickly, or when I exert myself. How can this plaque build-up be reversed & my stamina regained?
I have been reading one of your articles suggesting 150-200 mcg of K2 for every 1000 IU’s of vitamin D.
My question is: the supplement I am taking has K1-1000 mcg—-K2 as 4-1000 mcg—–K2 as 7-100 mcg.
Which of these different Ks am I counting the mcg . Is it just the K7 that you are referring to when you say to take 150-200mcg.or both K2 as4 and K2 as7? I want to be sure I’ doing this right.
Is there a vitamin K that you recommend?
Thank you .
Dianne