When vitamin D levels are ok, should you keep taking vitamin K2?

[AnneEvo]

Advice on here is to take K2 with vit D. Once levels of D are ok, is it a good idea to keep taking vit K2?

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Total vitamin D 18.4 nmol/L

As mentioned in reply to your previous post, you have Vit D deficiency. Once you have reached the recommended level (100-150nmol/L) you will need to find a maintenance dose to keep it there. With Vit D deficiency once you've reached a good level then supplementing to maintain it is generally for life, which is why you're advised to retest twice a year. So you continue with your maintenance dose of D3 and take K2 as well.

[AnneEvo in reply to SeasideSusie]

I was just curious really, wondering if we were able to maintain vitamin D levels through diet and sufficient sunshine would we still need K2 to deliver vitamin D to where it was needed - not just to bones.

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to AnneEvo]

K2 directs the extra uptake of calcium (courtesy of taking D3) to bones and teeth, it doesn't send Vit D to bones, etc.

[JaninaWalker in reply to AnneEvo]

A very good interview with a researcher into this is on the Dr Mercola site.

This is the name of the video for you to look it up "Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue'

Since I saw the video quite a long while ago I have always taken K2 at the same time in a specially designed supplement that is properly balanced. So I decided not to take D3 alone without K2 anymore and to instead always continue to take them together. Having too much calcium floating around in the wrong places just leads to calcification of arteries, so if it needs K2 to metabolize calcium properly it makes sense to take it.

So how good your level of VitD is currently does not mean it is no longer needed as this is an ongoing situation.

However....do not take too much as more of something is not necessarily better. If you do this search set of words in google you will see several links that are well worth reading.

Put it in google without quotes....

vitamin K2 to ward off calcification of arteries

Also if you are looking at the cost of D3 alone and comparing it to the cost of a special version of D3 and K2 in balance in coconut oil, like I am taking, it does cost more as K2 is the expensive part.

[AnneEvo in reply to JaninaWalker]

Thank you.