Personally, I'm a fan of the Thorne MK-4 drops, but they are more expensive. A single drop is a milligram, which is more than daily dose you would ever get naturally from any food — so the bottle lasts for a very long time. The drops are handy as you could mix a single drop into a soup and eat it over the course of three days and you'd pretty much simulate what you would get from a K2-rich diet. However, to truly see results, it helps to avoid large quantities of grains — which rob the body of Vitamin D when improperly prepared. Also, eating a nutrient-dense diet with quality fats to obtain the fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) is crucial.Benko wrote:http://www.iherb.com/Carlson-Labs-Vitam ... sules/6116MediumTex wrote: What is K2 and how do you take it?
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Vit K is a vitamin commonly thought of as being involved mainly in blood clotting but different forms also are important for bones and e.g. have been used to treat osteoporosis (when used in higer doses) in Japan for...ages.
Weston Price discovered K2 (he called it "Activator X" at the time) and, as a dentist, he realized that you could give High Vitamin Butter Oil (a natural K2 MK-4/MK-7 "superfood") and Fermented Cod Liver Oil (a Vitamin A and D "superfood") to patients to heal their cavities with ease. Modern/improperly prepared grains were found to rob the body of Vitamin D, so the best results were seen when modern grains were minimized (also shown by Sir Edward Mellanby's research with children and dogs). Really fascinating stuff.
Ideally you'd get your MK-4/MK-7 (and the other long-chain menaquinones MK-8, MK-9, etc) from animal food and fermented foods. But, it's difficult to do these days since the Vitamin K1 concentrations in the ground (used by animals to derive K2) have diminished from poor farming techniques over the centuries.