Shannon

Hi Barb, just a quick drop in after returning home from Houston with Magdalena, we are both so glad to be home at last and I'm taking a well needed couple days to unplug the world (outside of run to Whole foods and cooking) before getting back online again on Sunday.

But I noticed your post on Vitamin K and Coumadin.. The key here is to get a consistent daily intake of a modest dose each and every day of K2 (between 45mcg and 90mcg max while in Coumadin and K1 (around 45mcg to 50mcg/day).

The K1 is easy to get in foods but harder to eat a consistent daily level. Thus it's often wise to take such a small measured supplemental dose of both Vitamin K1 at 50mcg and K2-MK7 at 45mcg/day minimum and you can gradually increase the K2-MK7 up to around 90mcg if you have a home INR test machine you can easily use to titrate your K2-MK7 as well as K1 dose to not have my much impact on Coumadin dosage and INR levels.

Generally, the doses mentioned above will not lower a persons INR by more than 0.2 INR points or so.... A very small drop. Everyone taking these vital and critical fat soluble k2-MK7 and Vitamin K1 should adjust their dose of Vitamin K and Coumadin to insure a stable INR and taking such doses of Vit K consistently can very much help stabilize a more fluctuating INR level in many people and should not be contraindicated at all following these guidelines and checking one's INR frequently to confirm remains in a therapeutic range.

The point being, that the older recommendations not to take in ANY vitamin K at all when on Coumadin has been superseded and overturned ... Though for sure a good number of cardios still have not got the message yet. Adequate a Vitamin K levels are essential for a myriad of good health issues and reducing your levels to near zero Coumadin has been very bad advice for the vast majority of people in spite of its prior near total acceptance as medical dogma. Progress continues to happen in all areas of medicine.

Don't worry at all about Vitamin K1 or either K2-MK7 or K2-MK4 while on Eliquis, Xeralto or the new Edoxaban just approved by the FDA as the third Factor Xa inhibitor NOAC.

You can take as much Vitamin K as you might reasonably want for better health without any problems with these NOAC drugs. These drugs are not Vitamin K antagonists.

Best wishes,
Shannon



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