Vitamin K Deficiency: Caused by Vitamin A toxicity

Vitamin A depletes Vitamin K2; fixing K2 deficiency requires eliminating your Vitamin A toxicity

Notes:

• Vitamin A (VA) depletes Vitamin K2.

• Vitamin K2 makes the body less susceptible to dental cavities, heart disease, prostate cancer, liver cancer, diabetes, wrinkles, obesity, varicose veins, and other ailments.

• High concentrations of retinol and beta-carotene (both VA) are associated with increased risk of of prostate cancer, liver cancer, and chronic liver disease.

• K2 deficienty causes symptoms such as fast bruising, trouble clotting (prolongued bleeding), bloody noses, hair loss, calcification of internal organs, and lipid and liver alterations (cholesterol issues).

• Vitamin K2 directs calcium to the places it needs to be (the bones); without sufficient Vitamin K2, calcium resides in soft tissues (calcification of tissues, arteries, etc.) and leads to osteoporosis. Osteoporosis, then, may be at its root a Vitamin K2 deficiency.

• VA has been shown to calcify arteries.

• VA – from BOTH diet and supplement sources – induces fractures, is negatively associated with bone density, and increases risk of hip fracture. “Total Vitamin A intake is more important than source in determining harm.” (Translation: All Vitamin A has this effect.)

• VA’s link to obesity (and diabetes): “Overweight or obese patients had higher serum retinol levels than those with a normal body mass index.”

• There is no established unsafe level of Vitamin K2 (you can’t overdose).

• Menadione (synethic “Vitamin” K3) is dangerous and causes liver damage. Toxic menadione used to be administered to newborns, but was abandoned in the 1950s after “reports of hemolytic anemia [not enough red blood cells] and hyperbilirubinemia [too much billiruben in the blood] severe enough to cause kernicterus [brain damage].”

Bottom line: Fixing K2 deficiency requires eliminating your VA toxicity. You can supplement to relieve some symptoms, but the root cause will not be addressed without addressing VA.

An epidemic of Vitamin A toxicity

• Over many decades, cadaver studies doing liver biopsies have demonstrated an epidemic of Vitamin A toxicity. These studies showed between 10-40% of the total population were VA toxic. And in two studies of African children, 59% and 73% of children were VA toxic.

• Chronic VA toxicity can occur from ingestion of moderate levels of VA over months and years.

• VA toxicity concentration in these studies demonstrated that serum (blood) levels of VA would not have indicated the toxicity problem, but the livers were nevertheless experiencing VA toxicity.