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A overview of vitamin K1 · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness, podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 1: Now here is Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Troll. Hello and welcome. I'm Dr. Troy. I love reading articles,
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  Speaker 2: especially about things that just make me all warm and fuzzy.
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  Speaker 2: And I have loved vitamin K2 and K1 for quite
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  Speaker 2: some time. And I just read an article that was
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  Speaker 2: talking about K1 and where to get it. Now, vitamin K1,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not familiar, it's basically to help clotting factors.
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  Speaker 2: It's to help us not bleed and keep our blood
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  Speaker 2: a certain viscosity so that everything's okay. And if somebody
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  Speaker 2: has not had a very good diet and their blood
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  Speaker 2: viscosity basically gets more and more and more thick, and
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  Speaker 2: so they have a really sludgy type of blood, we
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  Speaker 2: now have this problem of throwing a clot somewhere. And
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  Speaker 2: so people that have had some type of embolism or
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  Speaker 2: a clot or a blood clot, they are now on
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  Speaker 2: blood thinners. And so if a normal healthy person, their
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  Speaker 2: blood viscosity should be a 1.1 on their INR. A
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  Speaker 2: person that is on a blood thinner, they want them
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  Speaker 2: between 2.5 and often 3.5. Now above 3.5, you start
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  Speaker 2: bleeding out of every orifice, which is what warfarin does
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  Speaker 2: to a rat because it's rat poison. And so not
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  Speaker 2: a very pleasant death, but we do want to thin
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  Speaker 2: somebody's blood if they're not maintaining a healthy diet and
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  Speaker 2: keeping their blood system above that kind of 0.9 on
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  Speaker 2: their INR. When it goes below 0.9, your diet is
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  Speaker 2: really not great. And you're producing a lot more sludgy
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  Speaker 2: stuff than you should. But the simple fact that you're thinking, well,
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  Speaker 2: then my gosh, I definitely don't want to take K1.
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  Speaker 2: if I've got a crappy diet because that's going to
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  Speaker 2: make my blood even thicker and I'm going to throw
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  Speaker 2: a blood clot. That's actually not the way it works,
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  Speaker 2: my friend. The K1 is going to try and protect
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  Speaker 2: the blood system when it's really super thin, like 2.5, 3.0.
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  Speaker 2: Under normal circumstances, it isn't going to increase your blood
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  Speaker 2: viscosity because it's at a point like, let's say, a 1.0
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, well, 1.1 is better than a 1.0.
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  Speaker 2: And if I take K, it's going to make it
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  Speaker 2: a 0.9. No, it's not going to do that. It's
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  Speaker 2: actually going to help you more than you know, because
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  Speaker 2: the K1 vitamin is going to be in greens. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, the vitamin C that's going to be in
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  Speaker 2: greens along with that K1 is going to definitely help
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  Speaker 2: naturally keep the blood thinner so that it flows nice
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  Speaker 2: and gentle and smooth like it should. So greens is
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  Speaker 2: where it's at. Now, amazingly enough, they say that we
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  Speaker 2: only need between 90 and 120 micrograms of K a day.
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  Speaker 2: And that isn't much. K1 is filiquinone, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: they're talking about. K2 is menaquinone. And animals will convert K1,
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  Speaker 2: like eating grass, the K1 in the grass, they'll convert
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  Speaker 2: it to K2 in their gut, and then they'll store
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  Speaker 2: the K2 in their fat, and then we eat that animal,
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  Speaker 2: and that fat we eat, and now we get K2.
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  Speaker 2: In our own gut, our bacteria actually produces K2 as well.
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  Speaker 2: So if we have good, healthy gut bacteria, we produce
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  Speaker 2: the K2 we need. Now, K1, let's say that, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I only need 90 micrograms a day. Well, shoot, a
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  Speaker 2: quarter cup of spinach will do that. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: an eighth of a cup of kale would do that.
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  Speaker 2: But Brussels sprouts, you know, who can't eat a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of Brussels sprouts and broccoli and even cauliflower for that matter?
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  Speaker 2: But most of the greens like asparagus, you know, the kale,
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  Speaker 2: the Brussels sprouts, the lettuce, all those will have a
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  Speaker 2: significant amount of K1. Enough for most of us, daily,
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  Speaker 2: our daily needs. But how many people don't eat greens
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  Speaker 2: at all? A lot of people don't eat greens at all.
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  Speaker 2: And so those are things that, okay, well, let's say
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  Speaker 2: that you eat some fresh nuts and seeds. Well, that
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  Speaker 2: would be good. That has a little K1 in it.
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  Speaker 2: Even some fruit has K1 in it. Now, I know
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  Speaker 2: an apple, even a small apple, is kind of pathetic
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  Speaker 2: at 5 micrograms of K1. And again, 90 to 120
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  Speaker 2: micrograms a day is what we need. So, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: probably should do a little bit better. But let's say
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  Speaker 2: we have a glass of carrot juice, which I know
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  Speaker 2: people that do that. So a cup of carrot juice
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  Speaker 2: has around, I think it's 40 micrograms of K2, or
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, K1, give or take. And that's all fine
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  Speaker 2: and well and good. So let's say that you go
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  Speaker 2: out and you eat some fresh carrots and things of
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  Speaker 2: that nature. Wonderful. Let's say you grow your garden. That
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  Speaker 2: would be even better. I used to walk around my
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  Speaker 2: garden and just eat my kale leaves as I walked around.
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  Speaker 2: My son now has got a burr under his cap
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  Speaker 2: and he's done a garden this year, which I'm thoroughly
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  Speaker 2: excited about because I didn't have to do much work,
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  Speaker 2: which was wonderful. And so to see that garden grow
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  Speaker 2: and to be able to eat our own spinach, beets,
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  Speaker 2: beet leaves, broccoli... lettuce, I mean even grew cilantro, which
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  Speaker 2: I thought was awesome. And so those are easy things
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  Speaker 2: to get a little bit of K1 in our diet. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it is important to note that when you have a supplement,
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  Speaker 2: if they don't say or differentiate K1 or K2, you're
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  Speaker 2: probably getting K1. K2 is going to help with bone
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  Speaker 2: density by activating hormones to make us less osteoporotic and
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  Speaker 2: actually put calcium into the bones. So when you eat
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  Speaker 2: K1 in the form of greens, you're actually doing yourself
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  Speaker 2: a world of good because your gut is going to
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  Speaker 2: help try to convert that too. And so you can
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  Speaker 2: actually protect yourself from other conditions by eating enough K1.
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  Speaker 2: So is it bad to eat more than 90 micrograms
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  Speaker 2: or 120 micrograms of K1? No, it is not. If
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  Speaker 2: you're on blood thinners, well, you've got a different thing
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  Speaker 2: going on because your doctor wants to keep your blood thin.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're not going to be really happy with
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  Speaker 2: you eating a lot of greens. Though, you may find,
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  Speaker 2: like I have found with some of my clients, that
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  Speaker 2: their INR can be all over the place, where they
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  Speaker 2: feel really bad sometimes, where their nose is bleeding and
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  Speaker 2: they can't stop bleeding from a cut because they're way
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  Speaker 2: too thin on their blood. And other times that their
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  Speaker 2: doctor's not happy because they're at a 1.9 when they
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  Speaker 2: want them at a 2.5. But those that eat a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of greens, all of a sudden the body says, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I see what you're trying to do with this warfarin.
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  Speaker 2: See what you're trying to do with this Coumadin. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I can help with that. And so I find that
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  Speaker 2: their INRs tend to be more stable when they throw
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of greens in there. So you, if
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  Speaker 2: you're experimenting with this and would like to do something
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  Speaker 2: for your health, and you're like, hey, I would like
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  Speaker 2: to keep my blood... a little less thin. So my
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  Speaker 2: energy is a little bit better and I don't feel
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  Speaker 2: so bad. You may find it helpful, but as you
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  Speaker 2: check your INR, you're going to know, Hey, if you're
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  Speaker 2: running right at that 2.5, you know, you might put
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  Speaker 2: your heads together with your doctor and say, Hey, can
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  Speaker 2: I run this at a 2.4, 2.3? He may have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of issue with that, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: way better than a 1.1 or a 0.9. Like some
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  Speaker 2: people have are a 0.8 or a 0.7. So with
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  Speaker 2: that in mind, you might, uh, get a little coaxing
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  Speaker 2: from your doctor. I hope this was helpful in vitamin
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  Speaker 2: K1 as kind of a brief overview about why we
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  Speaker 2: would take it and what to do. And until next time,
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