More Vitamin K and fermented food associated with fewer COVID-19 problems

• Vitamin K levels linked to COVID-19 outcomes NewHope June 26, 2020
  • Reduced Vitamin K Status as A Potentially Modifiable Prognostic Risk Factor in COVID-19 PrePrint - FREE PDF
  • "123 COVID-19 patients and 184 controls". Improved Coagulation
• Vitamin D3 and K2 and their potential contribution to reducing the COVID-19 mortality rate Inter. J. of Infectious Diseases, Aug 5, FREE PDF
  • Has a Causal Loop Diagram of Vitamin D3, K2 and the immune system
  • Table 1. Tabular indicator for raising the 25(OH)D blood levels from 20 ng/mL to 40 ng/mL and maintaining them after consultation with the physician (von Helden, 2011).

Body Weight – kg	10 Days Fill Up IU	Daily maintenance D3	Daily K2 (MK7) mcg
70	19,600	3,000	140
80	22,400	3,500	160
90	25,200	3,950	180

• Study links fermented vegetable consumption to low COVID-19 mortality July 8
  • Association between consumption of fermented vegetables and COVID-19 mortality at a country level in Europe Germany, July 7 preprint, FREE PDF - with maps
    • " For each g/day increase in the average national consumption of fermented vegetables, the mortality risk for COVID-19 decreased by 35.4% (95% CI: 11.4%, 35.5%)."
• Do Fermented Vegetables Help with COVID 19? 27 minute podcast on YouTube, Aug 4
• Fermented Foods May Lower Your Risk of COVID-19 Death Mercola Aug 6
  • Discusses GermanPrePrint (above) as well as Probiotics, Zinc, and Vitamin
• Vitamin K deficiency and covid-19 Letter to Editor July 2020   {ATTACH(inline="1" id="14499" icon="1")}PDF ATTACH}
• Vitamin K1 or Vitamin K2 may decrease COVID-19 deaths - Feb 2021

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Reduced Vitamin K Status as a Potentially Modifiable Prognostic Risk Factor in COVID-19 - Aug 25

Preprint speculates that supplemening Vitamin K would decrease COVID-19 problems by decreasing clotting by Cytokine storms
 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki

Introduction: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. The majority of patients have at most mild symptoms, however, a significant proportion develops respiratory failure. COVID-19 may also progress beyond the lungs. Coagulopathy and thromboembolism are prevalent in severe COVID-19 and relate to decreased survival. Coagulation is an intricate balance between clot promoting and dissolving processes in which vitamin K plays a well-known role. We hypothesized that vitamin K status is reduced in patients with severe COVID-19.

Methods: Vitamin K status was assessed by measuring desphospho-uncarboxylated matrix Gla protein (dp-ucMGP; inversely related to vitamin K status) and the rate of elastin degradation by measuring desmosine. We included 123 patients who were admitted with COVID-19 and 184 controls.

Results: Dp-ucMGP levels were significantly elevated in COVID-19 patients (1,673Å}1,584 pmol/L) compared to controls (536±291 pmol/L; p<0.0005). Dp-ucMGP levels were significantly higher in COVID-19 patients with unfavorable outcome compared to those with less severe disease. Furthermore, dp-ucMGP and desmosine levels were significantly associated (r=0.65; p<0.0005).

Conclusions: Vitamin K status was reduced in patients with COVID-19 and related to poor prognosis.
Also, low vitamin K status seems to be associated with accelerated elastin degradation.
An intervention trial is now needed to assess whether vitamin K administration improves outcome in patients with COVID-19.

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Longevity expert (Sinclair) supplements include Vitamin D, Vitamin K, and Resveratrol – Sept 2019
• Response to Vitamin D increased if take Magnesium and Vitamin K2 – Grassroots March 2020
• Should increase Vitamin K when increasing Vitamin D – RCT Jan 2019

Overview Vitamin K and Vitamin D contains the following summary
Vitamin K2 is similar to D3 in many ways

1. Both vitamins were initially confused with its lesser form (D2 ==> D3, K1 ==> K2)
2. Both vitamins appear to influence health in large number of ways
3. Both vitamins in the body are about 1/10 that of a century ago
   Example: Grass-fed beef has a lot more K2, D3, and Magnesium
4. Need very little of both vitamins: <1 milligram daily
5. When Vitamin D3 is increased, it appears that Vitamin K2 should also be increased
6. Vitamin K2 understanding and research is about 20 years behind that of Vitamin D3
   One of the reasons: [https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-there-a-vitamin-k2-blood-te-vVTdLPwcTFyi1Z_PM8yvTw|No simple blood test for K2 as of Dec 2024]

Note: it appears that Vitamin K supplementation provides clotting benefits within weeks

Perhaps you should start taking Vitamin K if get COVID-19 symptoms

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Authors were concerned that increasing Vitamin K increases Hypertension and Diabetes

Items in both categories Vitamin K and Hypertension are listed here:

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