{"id":3112,"date":"2023-06-26T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2023-06-26T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:12:44","slug":"vitamin-k-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/vitamin-k-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VITAMIN K"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vitamin K acts primarily in blood clotting, where its presence can make the difference between life and death.Vitamin K is essential for the activation of several proteins. When any of the blood clotting factors is lacking, hemorrhagic disease (uncontrolled bleeding) results.Vitamin K also participates in the metabolism of bone proteins, most notably osteocalcin.Without vitamin K, osteocalcin cannot bind to the minerals that normally form bones, resulting in poor bone mineralization.Vitamin K is stored in the liver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vitamin K Source<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Plant foods as phylloquinone (K1).Bacteria in the lower intestine can synthesize vitamin K as menaquinone(K2), which is absorbed by the body.Animal products : Meat | LiverVegetable products : Leafy vegetables | Cabbage | Vegetable oils<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Effects Of Vitamin K During Pregnancy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Pregnancy. Vitamin K has not been reported tocause birth defects or other problems in humans.However, the use of vitamin K supplements during pregnancy is not recommended because it has been reported to cause jaundiceand other problemsin the baby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">As a supplement it is used to treat<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>certain bleeding disorders.<br>warfarin overdose<br>vitamin K deficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/assets\/images\/Vitamin%20K.jpg\" alt=\"Featured 1\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin K acts primarily in blood clotting, where its presence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}