Vitamin K Supplements

What is Vitamin K?

Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal bodily function. It is found in two main forms: Vitamin K1, which is mainly involved in blood clotting, and Vitamin K2, which plays a key role in bone and cardiovascular health.

What Does Vitamin K Do?

Vitamin K helps keep your bones strong, supports normal blood clotting, and therefore contributes to cardiovascular health. It works alongside calcium and Vitamin D to ensure that calcium is absorbed into your bones rather than soft tissues. This helps to maintain bone density and strength.

Vitamin K can be hard to obtain through certain diets. Supplements can be an effective way to obtain optimal levels.

Benefits of Vitamin K Supplements

Vitamin K has a variety of benefits within the body, so ensuring you have enough is essential. The benefits of Vitamin K supplements include:

Bone Health

Vitamin K supplements can support the delivery of calcium to your bones. Without this vital Vitamin, calcium could settle in the soft tissue. Working alongside Vitamin D as a bone health supplement, Vitamin K helps calcium to be properly absorbed, aiding the density and strengthening of bones.

Heart Health

Vitamin K2 supports your heart and circulatory health.

Blood Clotting

Stimulating proteins that are crucial for blood clotting, Vitamin K supplements can aid the body in healing wounds.

Who Should Take Vitamin K Supplements

There are multiple groups of people who can benefit from Vitamin K supplements in particular:

• Teenagers - taking Vitamin K during teenage years can help to safeguard against both bone and cardiovascular issues later in life.
• The elderly - as elderly people lose bone density, Vitamin K2 can support calcium absorption into the bones.
• Pre and post-menopausal women - Falling levels of oestrogen during peri-menopause, menopause and post menopause can affect bone density. Taking a Vitamin K supplement could help to support against this.

How Does Vitamin K Work With Calcium?

Vitamin K plays an important role in helping your body use calcium effectively. Rather than simply increasing calcium intake, Vitamin K helps direct calcium to your bones and teeth.

Vitamin K2 works alongside Vitamin D3 to support this process. Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium from your diet, while Vitamin K2 activates proteins that help incorporate calcium into bone tissue. Together, they help support healthy bones and maintain normal calcium balance, alongside supporting normal blood clotting.

Vitamin K supplements are sometimes paired with Vitamin D so the pair can work together. Find out more about how Vitamin D3 and K2 work together.

Why Oral Sprays?

BetterYou's award winning oral spray technology offers better, faster absorption than traditional tablets and capsules. Absorbed directly into the bloodstream through the inner buccal membrane, oral spray supplements don't need to be broken down by the digestive system.

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