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What is Vitamin K Good For?

What is vitamin K good for? And why is there no vitamin F or G?  First, the silly question: answer found here.  Then on to Vitamin K, named, according to this piece in the New York Times, for the German word “koagulation,” meaning “clotting,”
has a well-known role in blood clotting.  The Times reports that recent evidence suggests that it may also be important for bone formation, preventing osteoporosis and keeping the circulatory and nervous systems healthy. Vitamin K is actually group of related fat-soluble compounds, which two natural forms: vitamin K1, or phylloquinone, which comes from
plants, and vitamin K2, or menaquinone-n, a group of related substances
mainly produced by bacteria, including those in the intestines.  The best natural source of vitamin K is green leafy
vegetables, including kale, leaf lettuce, Swiss chard and watercress.

4 Comments

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  2. almost vegetables and fruits thay have vitamin..

  3. Vitamin K is essential and integral vitamin for our health best sources of getting vitamin k is green leafy vegetables. I found interesting advantages of vitamin k in your article.

  4. Among millions of peoples few are knows about the vitamin k and its benefits.In this blog i found some really interesting information about the vitamin k.

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