Nicola Vitamin K is great for your heart – Vitamin K2 helps to prevent hardening of the arteries, which is a common factor in coronary artery disease and heart failure. Extensive research suggests vitamin K2 may help to keep calcium out of your artery linings and other body tissues, where it can cause damage.
Vitamin K can help prevent cancer – A study in 2003 in the International Journal of Oncology, found that treating lung cancer patients with vitamin K2 slowed the growth of cancer cells, and previous studies have shown benefit in treating leukemia. In an August 2003 study published in the Alternative Medicine Review involving 30 patients with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma, who took oral vitamin K1, the disease stabilised in six patients; seven patients had a partial response; and seven others had improved liver function.In 15 patients, abnormal prothrombin normalised.
