vitamin K and bone health
I am quoting from glenn rothfield's atlas of natural cures.
pg 378/379
it's been known for years that vit k is important ito hralthy bones. it's essential to the final step to the activation osteocalcin, a protein essential to normally calcifying bones. women with fractured hips have been showen to have significantky lower levels of vit k. serem levels of vit k in osteoporotic was only 35% of non-osteoporotics. ........
a decrease of urinary loss of calcium in menopausal women.....
a major importance in healing fracturews.....
of interest, is that vit k can put calcium back where it belongs it also prevents depositing in arteries where it doesn't belong.
postmenopausal women with calcification of aorta had reduced vit k levels......lower bone mass....
not conclusive but suggests that a major function of vitk is to keep calcium where it belongs and same time prevents it getting into all thewrong pklaces......
process that grabs hold of a protein (amino acid) and man ipulate calcium.... without vit k this process does not work optimally.