time this vitamin became dusty aside and it nobody remembered. Scientists considered that this vitamin has only one function: participates process of blood clotting. But it at all not so. Only in the 90th years paid to this vitamin due attention. And agree, even now very few people know something about it. And so, it turned out that without this vitamin our wounds and cuts would not heal that could lead to big losses of blood. Besides, scientists found out that vitamin K contains amino acid about which earlier nobody knew anything.
Vitamin K is fat-soluble so for its assimilation oils and fats are necessary. It is rather fragile: in alkali and at a daylight it collapses. Most often we receive this vitamin C meal, but also our intestines can develop a small amount of vitamin K. Vitamin K is not one vitamin, but the whole group of vitamins from which it is still known only seven. But as the main are considered fillokhinon and menakhinon which develops our intestines.
As for products which contain vitamin K, if you eat any (of course, edible) a green plant, receive this vitamin. Sheet vegetables, broccoli, green tomatoes are most of all rich with this substance. Walnuts, olive oil, milk, eggs, pork liver contain this vitamin too. As for fruit, you will not find this substance in them if only the trifle.
As for standard daily rate, you will be able to calculate it. The main thing to know that one kilogram of weight it is necessary for 1 mkg of vitamin K. For example, if you weigh 50 kilograms, then in day you need 50 mkg. It worked? But scientists found out that with food we receive even bigger amount of this vitamin, than it is required to us. So the shortcoming does not threaten you.
Vitamin K does not interfere with absorption of any substances. But there are substances which it prevents it to be acquired normally. What substances are? These are antibiotics, all the known alcohol, hypnotic drugs, vitamin E superdoses, preservatives, fragrances, dyes. Just what many of us so love.
- And if wounds did not heal?
One of the most important functions of vitamin K is improvement or normalization of blood clotting. Without fillokhinon to us would be to stop difficult the bleeding that is fraught with big problems. Imagine that you have on a finger a small cut, but here even this small wound does not heal. Frightening. But exactly thanks to a fillokhinon at us even big wounds drag on, crusting at first blood cages which do not allow harmful bacteria and viruses to get in an organism.
Also vitamin K is applied at treatment of internal bleedings, at injuries and wounds and also at therapy of ulcer injuries of mucous membranes. Such small vitamin, and what protection.
- We normalize processes, we help bodies
Vitamin K helps our organism to acquire calcium, at the same time cares also for interaction calcium with vitamin D. Besides, vitamin K helps to function normally to our bodies, such as kidneys, liver, gall bladder. Also this vitamin normalizes a metabolism in a bone and connecting tissue.
Vitamin K does not allow to develop to osteoporosis, he actively participates in oxidation-reduction processes in an organism. By scientists it was established that synthesis of some proteins extremely necessary for heart and pulmonary fabric can happen only to vitamin K participation.
- And poisons do not take it
Vitamin K neutralizes effect of the strongest poisons. It does not allow to work on an organism to coumarin, an aflatoxin. Do you know, than they are dangerous? Getting to an organism, such poisons destroy a liver, are capable to cause cancer. And vitamin K renders counteraction.
Usually newborn children as in its maternal milk there is not a lot of if the pregnant woman badly ate suffer from the shortage of vitamin K, useful substances in this case arrived a little. In intestines normal fats and also timely and sufficient release of bile are necessary for digestion of vitamin K. The people eating the greasy food, fast food made with use of hot fan almost do not receive vitamin K. Intestinal microflora is in such cases in a deplorable state, and it cannot just synthesize vitamin K.
Also at deficiency of vitamin K the hemorrhagic syndrome can develop. There are intracutaneous or hypodermic hemorrhages, internal bleedings, bleeding of gums.
The overdose practically at anybody does not meet, and even in high doses it does not cause negative consequences as this vitamin is not toxic. But at some diseases it needs to be appointed and used with care because increase in blood clotting can be undesirable.