As a follow up to our recent analysis of several vitamin K2 supplements on the market, today let’s explore the critical importance that vitamin K2 plays in not only our oral health, but so many systems throughout the body.
In this interview with Kiran Krishnan, a researcher and product developer who, for the past 15 years, has helped increase the global knowledge base on vitamin K2, we take a close look at the studies that suggest that vitamin K2 helps:
- increase bone density helping us stop tooth decay
- keep calcium out of soft tissues like our arteries
- restore mitrochondrial function and literally reverse symptoms in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological issues
- improve cardiac output which directly supports heart health and increases athletic performance
Warning: Poor video quality 🙁
Unfortunately, the day we recorded this expert interview, we had poor internet connectivity. Unfortunately, this resulted in a less-than-ideal video and audio quality at times.
So, here’s a PDF transcript that you can download to help clarify some of what’s being said.
Show notes
- 2:51 Why supplementing vitamin K2 is critically important, particularly for those of us consuming a Western diet
- 5:21 How statin drugs interfere with vitamin K2 recycling in arteries
- 7:00 Actual mechanism how K2 helps build bone
- 11:38 The role of K2 specifically in creating greater oral health
- 14:10 How K2 plays a significant role in stopping gum disease (not just tooth decay)
- 15:00 How if you have leaky gut, you may be compromising your ability to absorb K2 (and other fat soluble vitamins)
- 19:30 Incidence of subclinical K2 deficiency (greater than 90%)
- 31:30 What the research says regarding how much K2 is best?
- 32:50 What other minerals and vitamins help support K2 in doing its jobs
- 39:52 Who should be careful supplementing K2
- 43:30 How to test for K2 levels in your body (LabCorp tests for this!)
- 47:20 How often Kiran goes to the dentist ?
- 48:50 Why K2 is an anti-aging vitamin
- 49:30 The importance of K2 for heart health
- 54:40 Whether to take K2 with or without a meal
If you’d like us to look into carrying the K2 supplement Kiran has created, please let us know in the comments below and we can see if we can get you a good price on Megaquinone.
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Helpful, Related Resources:
How to Stop Tooth Decay and Remineralize Your Teeth [FREE eBook]
What’s the best K2 supplement on the market and why? [article]
Is this the missing nutrient keeping you from living a cavity-free life? [interview]
An easy step toward a cavity-free life [article]
What if your vegan ?
Aloha Megan,
Great question!
If you’re vegan, you can take the “MK7” form of vitamin K2. MK7 is produced from bacterial fermentation rather than directly from animal sources (“MK4” is found most commonly in animal products).
The food that contains the highest amount of MK7 is a Japanese fermented soybean product called natto. Other good food sources for MK7 include aged cheeses.
I hope that helps! Aloha 🙂
Yes, Yes, please see if you can get a good price on the K2 product..thank you!!!
As a women ages, the bones in the hips get more brittle. This is caused in the younger years of monthly menstruate cycles, removes a little of the calcium from the bone. Thus broken or fractured pelvis in falls.
I realize this is a few years later than the original posting of this but wanted to add that there is an excellent form of Vit K2 made by Thorne. It comes as a combination of D3 and K2. Because it is a liquid tincture, you can control the amount that you want. This is an easily absorbed and comes as an oil base. No flavor to it so you can add it to water or any beverage. There’s an enhanced synergistic effect when K2 is taken with Cod Liver Oil. This was a great informative piece. Thank you.
Aloha Jan,
Thank you for sharing that relevant information! We appreciate your input. 🙂
Will I’m glad that Kiran took the time to follow my invitation for an interview with you.
Personally, I use MegaQuinone for years and I sell it as well on my website.
Love your products. Yes, please offer Megaquinone on your site. Great interview.
Yes please interview Kiran again. Very informative. I didn’t find the bad video quality to impact the interview that much. But would still like to see another interview. And yes, I would buy the K2 from you. Thanks!
Thank you for arranging this very informative video! Kiran is the bomb in terms of knowledge and the eloquent way he passes on this vital information. More videos with Kiran please and of course very interested in Megaquinone, and any other products/probiotics that he makes. Thanks again.
I would be interested in the supplement as well! Thanks for all this great info.
Very informative!I️ would definitely be interested to learn more and what product to purchase. In the meantime I will be purchasing life extension brand.
Wonderful information. Thank you! Is there any chance of getting a title or link to the U of NorthTexas clinical trial mentioned working with a particular probiotic to heal leaky gut?
Yes, this is great information. Thank you all for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
I’ve been struggling with leaky gut on and off for a couple years. I too would love to know the probiotic that Kiran Krishnan is talking about that cures it in 30 days.
Kim
Aloha Kim (and Lindsay),
If you check out MicrobiomeLabs.com, you’ll find their MegaSporeBiotic. This is their spearhead product. They have another probiotic called HU58 I think which is the specific bacillus probiotic they have had so much success using to close up leaky gut. Their MegaSpore product contains the HU58 too.
I hope that helps.
Great information in this interview. Thank you for sharing it. Yes I am definitely interested in this product.
I would love to buy some megaquinone K2-7 from your site or do you recommend a site to buy it from?
This was awesome! Thanks for such great info!
My Husband’s doctor insists that he take statin drugs, much to my dismay. Is it worthless to give him K7 if he is taking this drug? Is the body unable to use it? I have been giving it to him but when Kiran said that the statin inhibits the absorption I wonder if I am just wasting the Vit K7 on him? Would love to have an answer to this. Thank you
Aloha Betty,
Thank you for sharing your story with us. I’m sorry to hear of your husband’s situation where his doctor is encouraging statins.
I can’t comment on this. However, a pretty simple visit to any naturopathic physician in your area would provide you with the input you seek here. I’m sure there is a pretty straight forward answer. We just can’t offer it here.
I’m making my way through the book by Dr. Kate Reaume-Bleue so this is great timing. Thank you for this podcast! Had a nice surprise recently when I visited Kauai and noticed your products while browsing a health food store. Wish I was able to see that where I live!
Aloha Isabelle!
So glad the timing is good for you!
HA! Yeah, we have our products well represented in health food stores here in the islands. We are expanding our wholesale reach right now, so who knows? Perhaps you want to help us get our products into your local store? We do have a ‘wholesale introduction’ card that many customers have found fun to hand to the supplement buyer at their local health food store. You can email us if you’d like us to send you some! 🙂
Please carry this product. I would like to buy for myself and my 32 year old son who has developed an autoimmune disease in the last 2 years.
I would be interested in the K2 supplement. Also have a question re: grass fed ghee vs grass fed butter. I would think both would be good sources of K2 – correct? Thx
Great interview…: please let us know where to find this supplement.
Yes, please carry a K2 supplement from Kiran, and also do another interview with him. The info was awesome and empowering.
Thanks. Great info!! I’d like to investigate the supplement. Would you clear up some confusion from the video if you can.? I heard that about 350mcg of k2 in the form of mk7 I’d optimal?? I also heard home say natural sources are best??? WhAt is his product exactly and how does that work in injunction with eating whole food sources? ie grass fed butter, ghee, emu oil I am going to start family on organ and natto through out the week
Yes, I would be interested in trying the supplement that Kiran recommended … please do make it available on your website ! Thanks so much for all of your wonderful healing information …. so appreciated !
Excellent webinar Will! Wow! I was researching K2 supplements (after reading the latest article, the video with Dr Kate and now the one above.) but hadn’t purchased any. Please become a provider of the MegaQuinone K2-7 product!! Will keep eating natto until then!
Yes would like to see you carry this product. Great video! Thank you for all the information. Blessings to you!!!
Great information! I hope you have more interviews with him. Also, printed versions would be
helpful . Thanks much
Yes, please, do carry MegaQuinone. I will buy it from you!
Just WOW! This was incredibly educational. I am incredibly grateful for this session. Thank you Will; I emailed a few months ago for more info on K2, and you replied that you’d be doing more in it. YES!!! I feel safer now that I know more about this critical nutrient — as well as a couple of other vital topics for health. You are awesome people. God bless you!
Beth
A timely video for me! I would love for you to look into Kiran’s supplement & consider carrying it on your website. Thank you for all you do.
Yes to the supplement!!!
I am interested in the K2 supplement Kiran has created. Please let me know where I can find it. Thanks.
I would like to know more on Mr. Krishnan’s product. So yes please look into it further.
It would be wonderful to read the transcript of this interview if available!
This is the best video I have ever seen on the topic of K2 (poor video quality aside 🙂 ). Thank you Will and Susan! I would love to see more videos from this expert!
We would like to know if you could get the Megaquinone at a reduced price and if it is organic.
Yes, would like to know more about the supplement and would be nice to get thru Orawellness. 🙂
Hi Will & Susan:
This is GREAT video for all to watch. I want to buy the Meganquinone . Can you send me a link to purchase it?
I fell that this vitamin is groundbreaking and I hope big Pharma doesn’t see this video. Buying the supplement now may be the smartest thing that one can do. If any drug company gets its hands on it, the cost will not be affordable…..
YES!!!! I would be very interested in having you carry this K2 supplement!!!!!!!
Thanks for ALL that you do to help us keep our mouth and our body
in pristine shape!!!! I’ve been using your products and reading your material/interviews for about 3 years now… and I am very pleased with
my results. I appreciate the energy and time you put into making all of this possible!!!!
Hi! I’m very interested in Megaquinone! Please keep me posted if you decide to carry it!
Thank you!
Thank-you Will and Susan for sharing the interview with Kiran he is nice and informative gentleman. I find I very encouraging that you can start with K2 at any age, even for folks like us who are nearing the age of 60.
I appreciate the research that OraWellness does. Thank-you again.
Yes. A good Vitamin K for a great price would be great!!!! Thank you:)
Thank you so much for this great information! What is the product that this young man has developed and/or sells? Thank you, jam
Excellent info!! Thank you! My integrative physician put me on K2 this past summer for my osteoporosis. Now I understand why! Amazing stuff! Would love for you to interview him again. Also would be interested in the supplement. Again thank you for sharing so much great info!
I don’t watch videos. Any chance you could print a transcript of the interview so I could read it? Thanks!
Me too. I would like a transcript. I am deaf.
Yes! Please start carrying Kiran’s supplement. Thanks for sharing this great information!
Please look into offering vitamin k2 on your website. I would be interested in using this because I thought broccoli and vegetables would be enough but now I’m not so sure.
Yes, please find a good price on the supplement, Megaquinone.