Anyone tried this??

[Jasbak22]

1.Natto:

Heart Health. A popular fermented soybean food prominent in the Japanese diet, natto is a must for anyone concerned about heart or circulatory disease. High in pyrazine and the enzyme nattokinase, blood thinners that can prevent thrombosis (blot clot formations) by essentially devouring arterial plaque, natto significantly reduces the risk of suffering a pulmonary embolism (arterial blockage) that could lead to a heart attack or stroke. Also high in vitamin K, it’s excellent in maintaining bone density. Warning: natto is a very acquired taste. In fact, it’s horrible, unless you’re a fan of strange exotic cheese. Prepare with turmeric and sea salt or alternatively sweeten with erythritol — a very low glycemic non-caloric sugar additive derived from glucose fermentation that retains 60-70% of the sweetness of table sugar. If it’s still unbearable, nattokinase is available in capsule form. I like Doctors Best (1-4 2,000 FU capsules / day).

Found this info on a Tim Ferris podcast. Wonder if anyone uses?

[Mazcd Partner MPNVoice]

Please check this with your haematologist or a pharmacist as it may have contraindications with any medication you are taking, i.e. aspirin etc. Maz

[susieq75]

Thanks for the information but as Maz says you should check with your doctor or anyine thinking of trying this as Vitamin K has a function i helping the blood to clot.

All the best

Susieq

[Jasbak22 in reply to susieq75]

Just to clarify my post I was asking if anyone had tried this. I wasn’t advocating the taking of. Thanks

[mhos61]

Thanks for sharing

[beetle]

Definitely check before using but on another forum it was a hot topic for discussion a few years ago. One person reported good success but others were not quite as successful. We all react so differently that is the problem. The forum site was mejthrombocythaemia. It might be worth going through the archives there by searching natto if you are interested. Best wishes Jan

[fee13]

I had taken it for years but can't afford it now otherwise I'd still be taking it. I used a product called blockbuster all clear. It had nattokinase which digests fresh blood clots without interfering with the clotting caused by injury. Serrapeptase which digests all dead proteins in the body (arterial plaque, internal scar tissue, dead blood cells, the list is endless), this is a proteolytic enzyme. Digestive enzymes, policosanol and pycnogenal.

Taking this could very well make your blood thinner so if you are taking aspirin etc you may need to stop or decrease the dose.

There are 2 main forms of vitamin k. This needs to be identified on the bottle to make sure you are not taking the k1 form, this increases platelets and is generally found in foods like spinach etc. The vitamin k2 is a fermented product that helps digest calcium from the blood and send it to your bones instead of calcifying in your arteries, it supposedly has no affect on platelet production. There are generally 2 forms of this as well. Menaquinone 4 which is shorter acting and taken in mg's (typically 45 mg) and menaquinone 7 which is longer acting and taken in µg's (typically 70-90 µg).

You would need to keep your doctor informed or monitor possible bleeding episodes. 🙂

[Jasbak22 in reply to fee13]

Thanks Fee13