02/01/2023
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MK7???.............................
MK7 with bone health
Bone health depends on 2 factors: bone density and bone quality.
MK7 promotes bone health, prevents osteoporosis by activating osteocalcin, to optimize calcium binding to bone structure, and increases collagen in bones.
Osteocalcin is a bone-building protein produced from osteoblasts, involved in bone structure by transporting calcium into bone tissue, and it also regulates calcium to go where it needs to be bone, and not to other places. unnecessary places (even dangerous ones such as blood vessel walls, soft tissues).
Osteocalcin, after being synthesized, exists in the body in an inactive form (inability to attach and carry calcium into the skeleton). MK7 is a necessary factor to activate osteocalcin from an inactive form to an active form, capable of binding and bringing calcium into the skeleton.
Without MK7, Calcium will go anywhere, and even with Vitamin D, Calcium will still work against you. At that time, Calcium prefers to attach to soft tissues, to blood vessels (such as coronary arteries, kidneys, veins) rather than to your bones, causing many troubles for people (such as many bone and joint diseases, vascular calcification). blood causes atherosclerosis, varicose veins, coronary heart disease, kidney stones, kidney failure, calcification of connective tissues, wrinkles, etc.)
In addition to the role of activating osteocalcin, MK7 also directly affects cells involved in bone formation. Evidence is that MK7 (not vitamin K1) limits the lifespan of osteoclasts, thereby directly reducing bone resorption. At the same time, MK7 increases the amount of osteocalcin produced by osteoblasts.
Besides that role, MK7 also has a positive effect on bone quality (elasticity) by increasing the amount of collagen in the bone.
The skeleton of the body is likened to a house built with reinforced concrete. In which, cement is Calcium (helps to increase bone density) and reinforcement is Collagen (helps to increase the quality and elasticity of bones thanks to the linkage of Collagen molecules).