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Is Vitamin K Protective Against Cancer?
What is vitamin K?
Vitamin K is an essential fat-soluble vitamin. It is a group of compounds with two major subunits — K1 and K2.
Vitamin K1 is found mainly in plant foods, such as leafy greens. Vitamin K1 influences your blood clotting ability.
Vitamin K2 is found mainly in fermented foods. However, it is also found in grass-fed animal products and equally produced by the bacteria in your gut.
Vitamin K has several health benefits. But yet a new one has been added to the list. In this article, we will discuss recent research discussing vitamin K and how it can reduce cancer risk.
A recent study has found that this vitamin has anti-cancer properties. According to the study, foods rich in vitamin K2 precisely may reduce cancer risk.
Results obtained from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) found that very high intakes of vitamin K2 reduced cancer risk and cancer mortality. According to the study, the risk of cancer mortality was reduced by about 30%.
There are two primary forms of vitamin K.
There’s vitamin K1, also known as phylloquinone or phytonadione. Then there is vitamin K2. Its other name is menaquinones.
