Your Gut and the Essential Vitamin K
Vitamin K is a special vitamin that aids in blood clotting, bone density, and the absorption of calcium. It is found in much of the same green leafy vegetables that contain calcium. Vitamin K is also manufactured in your gut by friendly bacteria.
As a defense against cancer, bone loss, and osteoporosis, vitamin K is extremely important to your body. It is so important in fact, that given a proper diet and therefore allowed to maintain a healthy pH balance, your body will create the conditions for vitamin K to be manufactured and absorbed in the stomach. This doesn’t mean, of course, that you don’t need additional vitamin K from food sources. It simply means that it is very important to make sure that your body can support the right kind of bacteria.
The bacteria, or gut flora, we are talking about occur naturally in a healthy body. These beneficial bacteria keep the gut and colon free from undigested food debris, built up fecal matter, parasites, and fungi. These friendly organisms help your body break down and digest plant matter and absorb nutrients from plant foods. Without them, you will not be able to absorb and process half as many nutrients, and it will be difficult to maintain a healthy digestive system and regular bowel movements.
If the diet is unhealthy, however, the body’s pH can quickly turn acidic. The acidic body cannot support friendly bacteria, and these die off, making more room for parasites, fungi, and the build up of rotting food and fecal matter. One the vitamins lost will be vitamin K, which aids in the absorption of calcium, and works to keep the body healthy and balanced.
Without these friendly bacteria, manufacturing vitamin K in the gut becomes impossible and absorbing it from food or a supplement is very difficult. That is why getting enough vitamin K is important to your gut health, and your gut health is important to getting enough vitamin K.
And it is this way with all nutrients. If your diet is poor and filled with toxic foods, your body will be unhealthy. When the body is unhealthy, it has a more difficult time processing and breaking down essential nutrients. This is why, although we are not against supplements, at the Total Wellness Cleanse, we try to encourage you to change your diet and your lifestyle so that you can be one hundred percent healthy.
Otherwise, taking vitamins and minerals as supplements to a poor diet isn’t going to work. Your body must be balanced, and the only way to do that is to address and conquer your eating habits. Then you will be able to make and absorb all the vitamin K and other nutrients that your body needs for the rest of your life if you get your body into balance now.
