Rhonda Patrick· PhD
And if you don't have that protein, you slowly accumulate atherosclerotic plaques, calcification of the arteries. And that will eventually lead to heart disease, but it takes 10 years or so.
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And if you don't have that protein, you slowly accumulate atherosclerotic plaques, calcification of the arteries. And that will eventually lead to heart disease, but it takes 10 years or so.
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Or one of the vitamin K enzymes is blood clotting. And if you cut yourself and you didn't have blood clotting, you'd just bleed to death. And that happens often enough that it's an essential protein where one of the vitamin K proteins prevents calcification of the arteries.