The health benefits of Vitamin K include blood clotting, osteoporosis, menstrual pain, internal bleeding, biliary obstruction and excessive menstrual flow.
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Vitamin K is considered to be a fat-soluble vitamin, which is present in the intestines of human body. The most vital role vitamin K plays is to control blood clotting, prevention of blood loss during injury. Vitamin K helps in assisting the absorption of calcium content from food, which helps in formation and maintenance of healthy bones.
The health benefits of Vitamin K include the following:
- Blood Clotting: Primary function of Vitamin K, to regulate blood clotting because of the role in amalgamation of prothrombium. This is an automatic process which happens at the time of injury due to a tear in blood vessel. Blood clotting consists of a set of molecules, which are continuously circulating through bloodstream. Vitamin K helps in regulation of blood clotting by transporting calcium from the body. Protein Z helps in enhancing action done by thrombin so as to promote an association with phospholipids present in cell membrane. Vitamin K2 helps in improving blood disorders called as myelodyplastic syndromes.
- Osteoporosis: Symptoms of Osteoporosis is reduction of bone density. It occurs at the age of fifty and is found during post-menopausal in women. It causes many complications and progresses silently, when kept unobserved for years. At the time of bone loss after years, the symptoms and signs of osteoporosis appears such as spinal deformity, fractures and pain. It is at the age of thirty and twenty, that an individual’s bone mass starts occurring. This is the time, when bones start reaching their maximum strength and density. After the peak time, bone building starts waning. Especially for women, the maximum bone loss starts occurring after menopause, when the estrogen level is at decline. Intake of leafy vegetables, collard greens, broccoli, spinach, brussels sprouts and lettuce rich in Vitamin K is essential for body. Even cow milk is good and rich in Vitamin K.
- Excessive Menstrual flow: A women experiencing excess menstrual bleeding would be deficient in Vitamin K. This will help in reducing the blood flow out of the body.
- Internal Bleeding: Vitamin K helps in reducing the threat of bleeding in liver, mal-absorption, jaundice or in combination of long term usage of antibiotics or aspirin. The problems associated with Gastrointestinal decreases the inclusion of this vitamin forming obstructions, sprue, Crohn’s disease, sprue, medications and colitis reduces the content of Vitamin K. Due to internal bleeding of brain, the risk for newborns increases in women during delivery.
- Menstrual pain: Vitamin K helps in proper malfunctioning of the hormones at right time for having regular periods, which will help in reducing menstrual pain.
- Pregnant Women: Women especially pregnant suffering from vomiting and nausea is seen to be deficient in Vitamin K. This Vitamin intake will show good results by providing relief in seventy two hours.
- Hemorrhage in Babies: This vitamin is injected in newborns to prevent hemorrhage. Even Vitamin K it is taken in consideration for the asthmatic children and continuous oral drops intake.
- Biliary Obtrusion: After prolonged treatment of oral antibiotics causes biliary obstruction, celiac disease, regional enteritis and ulcerative colitis due to deficiency of vitamin K.
- Correct Digestion/ Immune System : For boosting Vitamin K, intake of Young Coconut Kefir, Coco-Biotic, Raw Cultured Vegetables, Milk Kefir, Liquid Spirulina by a human body. This will help in increasing the content of Vitamin K.
- Regulation of blood sugar: This vitamin plays an important role in blood sugar regulation. Pancreas makes insulin and contains second highest content of Vitamin K of body.
- Other Benefits: Vitamin K can increases the flow of urine, relieves menstrual pain, cramps, excessive flow, enhances functioning of liver, increases longevity and vitality, helps in maintaining strong bones in elders, reduces fractures, maintenance of cardiac muscles, capillaries and blood vessels, blood circulation in tissues and peripheral bodies etc. Vitamin K acts as a protein, which is seen to be one of the strong inhibitor of arterial calcification.
This article is contributed by Seema Adnani
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