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If you’ve ever suffered from cardiovascular issues or heard your heart isn’t in good shape from the doctor, you’re not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about one in five heart attacks are silent, meaning the person wasn’t aware they had one and about 647,000 Americans die from heart disease each year. Our hearts are essentially the center of our life-force and learning we may not have been taking care of our hearts like we should can be a harder pill to swallow than any medication or supplement. While damage may have been done early on, unbeknownst to our younger selves, further damage to the heart and cardiovascular disease in general may be prevented if a healthy lifestyle is followed. This includes daily exercise, not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and eating a nutritious diet with hearthealthy ingredients. One such nutrient found to benefit the heart is vitamin K, namely vitamin K1 and K2 which occurs in the human diet. Vitamin K2 is hard to find in the Western diet, which is why we’ve made it easy with K2 Complete, containing three forms of vitamin K: vitamin K2 as menaquinone-4 (MK-4) and menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and vitamin K1 as phytonadione.

What Do the Studies Say?

Vitamin K deficiency can lead to calcification (mineral deposits) of vessel walls that has been associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events. Consuming enough vitamin K2 may lower the risk of vascular damage.1 Vitamin K2 is often missing in the Western diet as it is usually found in fermented foods and is not usually included in junk foods commonly found in an American diet.1,2 Vitamin K1 can be found in plant-based foods such as kale, spinach and broccoli. Vitamin K2 has different forms of menaquinones (MK) and K2 Complete contains both MK-4 and MK-7 to ensure you get the adequate amount. One study found that in a normal Western diet, MK-4 was the only vitamin K2 form detectable and MK-7 was often below the limit of detection due to very low concentrations and3 was detectable after MK-7 supplementation.3,4