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April 15, 2013 Vitamin K2 Activates MGP – and Pulls Calcium OUT of Arteries   Reference.  Shurgers U of Maastricht   Could this be the cure for coronary artery disease?  We’ve learned all about Vitamin K2 activating proteins that put calcium into bone (osteocalcin) and reduce insulin in the pancreas.  Now we have another role for K2.   It… Continue reading Vitamin K2 Pulls Calcium OUT of Arteries

April 08, 2013 The Comb Study: Combination of Micronutrients and Bone Density  Reference: Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Volume 2012   Ok, now we get serious about some implications with K2 and its effectiveness.  Let’s teach you how to CURE osteoporosis.  I said cure, and I mean it.   No drugs.  Here goes.  The COMB study comes… Continue reading The COMB Study and Vitamin K2 for Bone Health

April 01, 2013 Vitamin K2 and Diabetes Reference: AJCN Oct 12, 2012,(Ibarrola), Cardiovasc Diabet. , Clin Nutrition 2000   Ok, this wasn’t expected but may be just as big as our prior discussions. We have heard about K2 helping teeth, and being the key vitamin to helping build stronger bones. Now we have diabetes too? Well, yes.… Continue reading Vitamin K2 and Diabetes

April 01, 2013 Vitamin K2: A New Interpretation of an Old Vitamin   Reference:  Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox by Kate Rheaume-Bleue   We’ve known about Vitamin K since the 1930s when it was first characterized in Denmark by Henrik Dam for making chickens on a pure cholesterol diet bleed to death.  It was called Vitamin K… Continue reading Vitamin K2: A New Interpretation of an Old Vitamin

April 01, 2013 Omega Fats Linked to Lower Cardiovascular Mortality   Reference:  Annals of Internal Medicine April 2013   First up, then down, then up!  Omega fats get the thumbs up, then the thumbs down. What’s a fish to do?  Here is another up, and my read of what the consensus shows should be our foundation of good… Continue reading Omega Fats Linked to Lower Cardiovascular Mortality

March 25, 2013 Vitamin K2 Deficiency is COMMON  References:  Cranenberg 2007 in Thrombosis and Haemostais Beulens in Diabetes Care 2010 Farmateket We spent the first 60 years of Vitamin K2 thinking it was a subtype of K1 and all about blood clotting.  We also thought it was plentiful in our gut, and that its deficiency was rare.   It wasn’t until… Continue reading Vitamin K2 Deficiency is COMMON

March 18, 2013 Who Was Weston Price? Dentist Extraordinaire!   Reference: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price   Simple.  He is the “Charles Darwin of Nutrition”.  He was a dentist from Cleveland who got tired of putting cavities into kids’ mouths in the 1920s.  He asked the question, “Why do so many kids have cavities in America?”  With… Continue reading Who was Weston Price?

March 05, 2013 Sugar Isn’t Just Bad, It’s Poison   Reference:  PLOS On Line, Feb 27th, 2013 Basu, Yoff, Hills and Lustig.   Of course, of course.  Avoid sugar.  It’s not good for you.  Grandma knew that.  You know it.  But we say it with a slight wistfulness because we love the taste.  And we hope it’s not true.  … Continue reading Sugar Isn’t Just Bad, It’s Poison

February 25, 2013 The Death of Carb Loading   Reference:The  Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance by Volek and Phinney  Remember carb loading your kids before a soccer tournament?  Ever done that yourself before a big event?  Ever tried to run a marathon and then “hit the wall” and “bonked” at mile 7?  These are all… Continue reading The Death of Carb Loading

February 18, 2013 Fish Oil Makes Better Baby Brains  Reference:  Perspectives in Psychological Science, Protzko Jan 23, 2013   Dr. Protzko performed a meta-analysis looking at all the sources of higher IQ from all the studies that have been done and done well, over the last few decades.  By combining multiple studies you can get more “power” to… Continue reading Fish Oil Makes Better Baby Brains