Kresser Institute

Tools, Training & Community for Functional Health Professionals

  1. Home
  2. Knowledge Base
  3. Heart Disease
  4. Chris talked about supplements recommended for people with high cholesterol and heart disease. I think he suggested 5 milligrams of K2 as one of the supplements. Thoughts?
  1. Home
  2. Knowledge Base
  3. Supplements
  4. Chris talked about supplements recommended for people with high cholesterol and heart disease. I think he suggested 5 milligrams of K2 as one of the supplements. Thoughts?

Chris talked about supplements recommended for people with high cholesterol and heart disease. I think he suggested 5 milligrams of K2 as one of the supplements. Thoughts?

Dr. Amy Nett:  As I mentioned, it depends on the risk factors and kind of the severity of cardiovascular disease risk. I have a patient, 42 years old. This is terrifying. He’s a lean 42-year-old, and he had a heart attack in the gym after doing, like, a kettlebell class. He wasn’t feeling well, so his trainer told him to go foam roll, which, surprisingly, didn’t do anything for his pain. He had 100 percent occlusion of LAD, 70 percent occlusion of RCA. Those are both stented. He’s actually doing really well now, but we have him on 45 milligrams of K2. So it depends on the setting. If you’re really just like a preventative kind of low-risk high cholesterol, then, yeah, 5 milligrams is probably a reasonable place. If this is sort of a moderate-to-high-risk cardiovascular disease patient, I would think about going 15 or 30 milligrams and probably be a lot more aggressive. You might also want to look at a coronary CT scan. Do they have a lot of calcified plaques? Look at those risk stratifications. K2 is the correct vitamin that you would want, and the dose is variable, probably based on what your comfort level is in terms of how aggressive you want to go, if you want to go up to 30 or 45 milligrams. It depends on the other risk factors. Hopefully that helps a little bit.

 

Was this article helpful?

Related Articles

0 Comments

Leave Comment

Leave a Reply

Need Support?

Can't find the answer you're looking for?
Contact Support
Kresser Institute Icon ADAPT Health Coach Training Program Icon ADAPT Practitioner Training Program Icon ADAPT Courses Icon