Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading vitamin k2 understanding how a little known vitamin impacts your health. With so much focus on vitamin d its surprising you dont hear more about vitamin k2 a number of studies show a link between vitamin k2 bone health and heart health is vitamin k2 a nutrient you need more of in your diet as physicians we feel everyone needs to be aware of the role this vitamin plays in health and wellness. Such must be the same thing with vitamin k2 vitamin k2 appears to play lots of roles in terms of calcium activities insulin resistance and inflammation takeaway vitamin k2 has few more effects and roles than we just dont completely understand yet it affects both soft tissue like artery walls and hard tissues like bones. Vitamin k activates proteins that play a role in blood clotting calcium metabolism and heart health one of its most important functions is to regulate calcium deposition in other words it . These can safely be taken with vitamin k2 k2 is also well established to be non toxic carrying none of the concerns sometimes associated with fat soluble vitamins 15 kate rheaume bleue nd is the author of vitamin k2 and the calcium paradox how a little known vitamin could save your life harpercollins