Lifesaving Vitamin Slashes Heart Disease Risk by 57%

Those dosed up on this vitamin were 52% less likely to experience severe calcification in their arteries and 57% less likely to die from heart disease over a seven- to 10-year period.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin with significant health influence that many don’t get enough of. Your body stores very little of it, so it’s rapidly depleted without regular dietary intake. Common drugs such as statins and antibiotics can also deplete vitamin K

• Vitamin K1 is derived from green, leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale, …