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Hi, look into Vitamin K2 and Boron if you haven’t. Both are good complements with Vitamin D and are useful for bone density.



Thanks, Several others(not doctors) have recommended this as well, but my potassium levels were fine in the test results. There is an in-depth blood profiling regarding my bone health planned next year, I'm planning to find out more about the role of K2 and Boron and whether it affects me before that.


Potassium? Did you check cellular potassium rather than serum?

Further, vitamin K is a vitamin. Potassium is a mineral. Search online for "vitamin K2 MK-4" and "vitamin K2 MK-7"..


My bad, earlier discussions were reg Potassium mineral w.r.t bone health and not K2 in specific. I'll bookmark this and explore further on K2.


Stressing again:

Potassium is a mineral marked K

There is a a group of vitamins marked K, among them K1 and K2 (with various forms such as MK4 and MK7).

There is NO relation between those too, except the coincidence in using the same letter. What you want w.r.t to bone health is specifically Vitamin K2, not K1, and not the mineral K (a.k.a Potassium).

(This is similar to vitamin C having no particular relation to element C, a.k.a Carbon).




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