Optimum D3/K2

Description

Often vitamin D is not enough. Depending on your genetics and lifestyle, you may need more fat-soluble vitamins. Vitamin D and vitamin K support immune, bone, and cardiovascular health. Vitamin K can come in different forms just like vitamin D. This formula has D3, the most viable at 5000 IU and MK-7 vitamin K2. This combination supports bone and cardiovascular health.

Calcium and vitamin D are important mediators in bone growth, but vitamin K plays an equally important role. The synthesis of bone growth is dependent on vitamin K, through its carboxylation of osteocalcin, a protein secreted by osteoblasts. Osteocalcin guides calcium into bones and prevents its absorption into organs, joint spaces and arteries. Vitamin K occurs in two main forms: K1 (phylloquinone), derived from foods such as green leafy vegetables and K2 (menaquinone), which is a group of related compounds differentiated by their side chains. Numerous studies have shown that vitamin K2 as MK-7 is the more bioavailable form of the nutrient 7 and more powerfully influences bone building than K1.