At 4:19 PM -0500 1/9/12, Keith Thomas wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:33, Ben Liberman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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><snip>
>>This article at the Weston A. Price foundation, from Feb. 13, 2008, is by Chris Masterjohn
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>>"On the Trail of the Elusive X-Factor: A Sixty-Two-Year-Old Mystery Finally Solved"
>>http://www.westonaprice.org/fat-soluble-activators/x-factor-is-vitamin-k2
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>That's a great post, Ben!
>
>But don't forget, Weston Price found that people consuming traditional cuisines had adequate vitamin K2 intake, so I would hope we were all able to do the same today. Any reason why we couldn't?

Where they eating local grown fresh produce?  Hard to find these days.  I seem to recall that one of those links talked about how vegetable sources are mostly K1 and that we do not convert it to K2 very well...

>BTW, there had been a good coverage of vitamin K over at Richard Nikoley's site:
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>http://freetheanimal.com

Thanks for reminding me Keith.  It has been awhile since I cruised his site.  I'll try to get there over the next weekend.