Those that eat a diet rich in vitamin K have up to a 34% lower risk of atherosclerosis-related cardiovascular disease (conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels).
You can't wait to be ill to start taking supplements and eating health-promoting foods. You want to accumulate a healthy body load of them over time, to keep you strong.
There are two types of vitamin K found in foods we eat: vitamin K1 comes primarily from green leafy vegetables and vegetable oils while vitamin K2 is found in meat, eggs and fermented foods such as cheese.
This study, reference below, found that people with the highest intakes of vitamin K1 were 21 percent less likely to be hospitalized with cardiovascular disease related to atherosclerosis.
For vitamin K2, the risk of being hospitalized was 14 percent lower.
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Reference:
Vitamin K Intake and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the Danish Diet Cancer and Health Study. Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021; DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020551