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Are wrinkles an inevitable fact of aging or could laugh lines and crow’s feet potentially indicate a vitamin deficiency or even a more serious underlying health issue?
In 2011, researchers presented
findings at a meeting of the Endocrine Society in Boston that
revealed that women in their 40’s and 50’s who have extensive skin
wrinkling are much more likely than their peers to have low bone mass.
Researchers noted the relationship between
wrinkles and bone density in every single bone tested which included hip, heel,
and lumbar (spine). In addition, this relationship existed regardless of
body fat percentage and age.
Epidemiological evidence
of Asian women offers further health clues to the wrinkle mystery.
It is known that Japanese women have
fewer wrinkles and less skin sagging that women of the same age living in North
America. These two groups of women vary greatly in diet and lifestyle,
however.
Even when Japanese women living in
Tokyo were compared with women from the Asian cities of Shanghai and Bangok,
however, they showed the least visible signs of aging.
Diet and lifestyle factors for these
three Asian groups of women are comparable except for one notable exception:
the consumption of natto in Japan.
Tokyo residents frequently enjoy natto,
a strong smelling food traditionally made from fermented soybeans for
breakfast. Natto is loaded with menaquinone, Vitamin K2, and blood samples of
the Tokyo women revealed high circulating levels of this fat soluble vitamin.
Further research which bolsters the
notion that getting plenty of anti-wrinkle vitamin K2 in the diet makes for
smoother facial features is found in the research of Korean scientists and was
published in the journal Nephrology
in 2008.
The rate at which the kidneys are able
to filter the blood is an important measure of overall kidney function.
Researchers found that reduced renal filtration rate was associated with
increased facial wrinkling.
What does decreased kidney filtration
rate predict?
You guessed it – Vitamin K2 deficiency,
according to American research published the year after the Korean study.
Testing has been limited so far on the
true extent of Vitamin K2 deficiency in the western world, but so far, of those
tested, 90% tested deficient in this critical nutrient.
Avoid the Vitamin Deficiency That Causes Wrinkles With These Foods
If you want to avoid a vitamin
deficiency of K2, know that it is an elusive nutrient and extremely difficult
to obtain with a modern diet. The highest sources of K2 are natto
(fermented soybeans), goose liver, certain cheeses and animal fats like egg
yolk, butter and lard which must
come from grassfed animals.
Natto contains a whopping 1,103 mcg of
K2 per 3 1/2 ounce portion which blows away every other food by a country mile.
The second highest food in Vitamin K2
is goose liver pate which has 369 mcg per 3 1/2 ounce portion. While
delicious and wonderful to eat, goose liver pate is very hard to find in most
places. It is also a very high end, gourmet food which makes the price
out of reach for most.
Rounding out the top 3 foods highest in
Vitamin K2 is none other than the humble Gouda cheese, which boasts 75 mcg per
3 1/2 ounce serving! This compares to pastured egg yolks and butter,
which each have about 15 mcg of K2 per 3 1/2 ounce portion. Brie cheese
is also very high in K2.
How much of these K2 containing foods
should you eat to avoid a vitamin deficiency of this critical nutrient?
That part gets murky as the official recommended daily intake (RDI) of
Vitamin K doesn’t distinguish between K1 and K2 despite their very different
uses in the body. The RDI for Vitamin K is only determined by the
liver’s requirement for normal blood clotting factors, not the K2 needed for
optimal bone and kidney health and wrinkle free skin. So, getting enough K1 in
the diet via leafy greens could still mean a serious vitamin deficiency of K2.
The good news is that there is no
known toxicity of Vitamin K2, so eating generously of Vitamin
K2 rich foods as practiced by Traditional Societies and even
potentially taking a supplement to
avoid a vitamin deficiency is considered wise by Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue, ND,
author of Vitamin
K2 and the Calcium Paradox.
Vitamin K2 Update
Recent research has shown that an
Aboriginal sacred food is extremely high in vitamin K2, so high in fact that it
is nearly as high as goose liver pate! Click
here for where to source authentic emu oil from the genetically pure
strain of birds eating their native diet that produce this nutrient dense fat.
Sources and More Information on Avoiding K2 Vitamin Deficiency
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