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Vitamin K2 And The Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life Kindle Edition

by Kate Rheaume-Bleue (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The secret to avoiding calcium-related osteoporosis and atherosclerosis While millions of people take calcium and Vitamin D supplements thinking they're helping their bones, the truth is, without the addition of Vitamin K2, such a health regimen could prove dangerous. Without Vitamin K2, the body cannot direct calcium to the bones where it's needed; instead, the calcium resides in soft tissue (like the arteries)—leading to a combination of osteoporosis and atherosclerosis, or the dreaded "calcium paradox." This is the first book to reveal how universal a Vitamin K2 deficiency is, and the risk (in the form of cancer and diabetes, among other ailments) the absence of Vitamin K2 poses.Written by Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue, a popular health expert on Canadian television and radio, Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox sounds a warning about the popularity of the calcium and Vitamin D craze, while illustrating the enormous health benefits of Vitamin K2 in making the body less susceptible to dental cavities, heart disease, prostate cancer, liver cancer, diabetes, wrinkles, obesity, varicose veins, and other ailments.

  • The book demystifies this obscure supernutrient—a fat soluble vitamin that humans once thrived on, ignored by scientists for almost seventy years
  • Details how the consumption of grass-fed animals led to adequate Vitamin K2 intake—while grain-based animal feed helped eradicate Vitamin K2 from our diets
  • Describes how doctors are raising recommended doses of calcium and Vitamin D—without prescribing Vitamin K2
  • Details more damning facts about transfats—and how the creation of a synthetic Vitamin K interfered with the body's Vitamin K metabolism

An essential book for anyone interested in bone health, or maintaining their overall health, Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox is the guide to taking the right combination of supplements—and adding Vitamin K2 to a daily regimen.

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Are you taking calcium or vitamin D? This book could save your life!

Learn the secret to avoiding osteoporosis and heart disease.

Millions of people take vitamin D and calcium supplements for bone health. New research shows that this actually increases the risk of heart attack and stroke because the added calcium builds up in arteries—the calcium paradox. The secret to keeping bones strong and arteries clear is vitamin K2, a little-known supernutrient that humans once thrived on and that has been ignored by scientists for almost 70 years.

Inside this book, you'll find:

  • How consumption of grass-fed animals traditionally provided us with ample quantities of vitamin K2—while grain-based animal feed contributed to the eradication of vitamin K2 in our modern diet

    • How K2 is the most important anti-aging nutrient for fighting wrinkles, Alzheimer's, heart disease, osteoporosis and more

      • The health benefits K2 promotes for straight, cavity-free teeth and strong bones in children

        • Which delicious "sinful" foods are brimming with heart-healthy K2

          • Ways you can safely get the most benefit from your calcium and vitamin D supplements

            Also available as an e-book through online retailers.

About the Author

Dr Kate Rheaume-Bleue is a licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Biology from McMaster University, with an honors thesis that involved designing a clinical trial to evaluate natural medicine. Kate completed her professional training at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (class of '02), where she also pursued two additional years of residency training. As a member of both the Academic and Clinic faculties at CCNM for three years, Kate was a guest lecturer and teaching assistant for several courses. She was the supervising clinician at two different naturopathic public health clinics in Toronto and has held private practices in Toronto and Hamilton. Since 2006 Kate has been employed as an educator and spokesperson for Natural Factors Nutritional Products, Canada's largest manufacturer of nutritional supplements. She is also bilingual, lecturing in both official languages.

Kate's articles have been featured in Alive magazine, as well as Life Peak and Vista. Television appearances include Breakfast Television Vancouver (three times), BT Winnipeg (five times), BT Toronto (twice), BT Calgary (twice), Canada AM, Live with Christine Williams, The Fanny Keifer Show (twice), CHCH News (three times), CTV Evening News Atlantic Canada, Live at 5 and the CTV Kitchener Noon Show (twice), to name a few. She has also appeared on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet show. Kate is a regular guest on several radio shows including CHML's Just For The Health of It, CJBK's It's Your Call, Talk 820's Lisa Live and others.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Collins (June 25, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 25, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Kate Rhéaume (1974-) was born and raised in the West Island of Montreal, Quebec. She followed her lifelong interest in health and nutrition to McMaster University, where she completed an honors degree in Biology, with an intention to pursue a career in conventional medicine. After spending much time as a keen "pre-med" student in the University hospital Kate decided that something was missing for her from the conventional paradigm of medicine. Upon successfully resolving her own health challenges with natural medicine, Kate turned to Naturopathic medicine as a career and never looked back. She graduated from Toronto's Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2002 and was selected for the coveted residency program. Kate spent two and half years on the CCNM Academic and Clinic Faculties as a teaching assistant, guest lecturer and clinic supervisor. After a maternity leave Kate joined Natural Factors Nutritional Products as an educational spokesperson. In this capacity Dr. Kate travels across North America lecturing on many topics related to natural health. As an author Dr. Kate speaks internationally at many health conferences on the subject of vitamin K2. She is a frequent guest on television and radio and a sought-after, engaging speaker. Dr. Kate now makes her home in Ancaster, just west of Hamilton, Ontario.

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Customers find this book well-researched and informative about vitamin K, with clear writing that makes it accessible to everyone. They appreciate its comprehensive references to scholarly journals and its potential benefits for cardiovascular health, particularly in preventing heart disease and possibly correcting osteoporosis. The book receives positive feedback for its value, with one customer noting it could save untold healthcare and dental correction dollars. Opinions are mixed regarding effectiveness and dosage recommendations.

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349 customers mention "Information quality"338 positive11 negative

Customers find the book informative and well-researched, providing life-saving information about vitamin K.

"...I will be making the reading of this book an important message in nutritional health for all my family and friends...." Read more

"...This book is absolutely a very important book, which in a couple of years nearly probably will be the only one in which we are getting the correct,..." Read more

"K2 is working. Important, important book. Have to get more copies and get the word out...." Read more

"...Nothing wrong with that. It is a purer product than their naturally derived one. They even named it MenaQ7 PURE...." Read more

193 customers mention "Readability"193 positive0 negative

Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as a must-read that is enjoyable to read, with one customer noting it is packed with incredible information.

"...Thank you for your tremendous book and by the way, I did my Family Practice Residency at McMaster University and while doing so, my wife and I..." Read more

"K2 is working. Important, important book. Have to get more copies and get the word out...." Read more

"...in empirical fact, and this author's work is a lovingly executed and just tribute to the pioneering work of Doctor and Mrs. Price, published in 1939..." Read more

"...The bottom line is that this book will be a valuable addition to the library of any health conscious individual...." Read more

130 customers mention "Ease of reading"125 positive5 negative

Customers find the book easy to read and clearly written, with one customer noting it strikes the right balance between scientific writing and accessibility.

"Kate Rheaume-Bleue is an excellent writer...." Read more

"...Kate Rheaume-Bleue has done a remarkable job of combining easy expository writing with an extremely complex medical fact story, in a long overdue..." Read more

"...engineer with the content quality and think it far easier to digest than most health information I read...." Read more

"...The author, explained all of this in simple terms and even entertained me with body chemistry, that I was pleasantly surprised I understood." Read more

58 customers mention "Cardiovascular health"58 positive0 negative

Customers report that Vitamin K2 helps prevent heart disease and possibly corrects osteoporosis, with one customer noting its positive effects on bone and artery health.

"...K2 also activates osteocalcin, a protein that promotes bone building and remodeling...." Read more

"Got this to learn more about Vitamin K2 since it reversed my systemic tendinitis and dry eye/mouth and hand clumsiness..." Read more

"...And the best test available for K2 deficiency is the ratio of undercarboxylated osteocalcin (ucOC) to carboxylated osteocalcin...." Read more

"...My mother was tested and her bone density has gone up dramatically...." Read more

18 customers mention "Reference content"15 positive3 negative

Customers appreciate that the book includes references to scholarly journals throughout, with one customer noting the comprehensive footnotes and bibliography at the back.

"...The chapter notes include over 240 research references, of which I recommend the singular Rotterdam study, q. google...." Read more

"...It is clear, well organized, and referenced throughly in the back of the book for each chapter...." Read more

"This book is extremely well researched and contains references to scholarly journals where the information comes from...." Read more

"...You'll see what I mean. It has all kinds of info on this vitamin, FAQs, then it has various studies that you can choose to read, as well as media..." Read more

9 customers mention "Value for money"9 positive0 negative

Customers find the book offers good value, with one customer noting it could save significant healthcare and dental correction costs.

"...This supplement is not nearly as expensive as periodontal disease. In the meantime, get this book and share it with those you love." Read more

"...that their newest product is actually synthetic MK-7 which is much cheaper to produce. Nothing wrong with that...." Read more

"...It is easy and inexpensive avoiding the big drug companies...." Read more

"...to the health of young and old alike and can save us untold Healthcare and Dental correction dollars." Read more

9 customers mention "Effectiveness"6 positive3 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the effectiveness of the book, with some reporting great results, while others find it not super great.

"...read that daily taking 25.000 IU, during 2 to 12 years, newer have shown any problems...." Read more

"...Everyone should know about vitamin K2. Deficiency is very common and very harmful." Read more

"Doctor Kate Rheaume-Bleue has done a remarkable job of combining easy expository writing with an extremely complex medical fact story, in a long..." Read more

"...You can tell it works within a week, just by the way your teeth feel....slick just like you had them cleaned at the dentist...." Read more

8 customers mention "Dosage recommendations"3 positive5 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about dosage recommendations in the book, with several noting that the author does not provide specific dosing instructions.

"...understandable, aspect of this book is that the author makes no recommendations on dosage of K2, D3, A, or any other supplement...." Read more

"...now why K2 in MK7 form is a better choice, and I'm glad she gives dosages in her book...." Read more

"...The author isn't clear about dosage recommendations...." Read more

"...But, no advisable dosages were given. Clearly it was understood that the recommended dosages were not enough?..." Read more

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  • James Bell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lack of Awareness of Calcium in Our Life
    Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2025
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    I have just finished this book and I was very impressed with its content. I will be making the reading of this book an important message in nutritional health for all my family and friends.

    I am a retired MD, who retired 14 years ago, after 36 years of Family Medicine (half the time in Canada and the second half in the US). Most of the information presented by the author was not well known or known at all when I retired in 2011. The focus then was on cholesterol and fat as major factors in heart disease. That data has become more suspect with time, however. I now believe that the interaction of Vitamin D, Vitamin K2 and Vitamin A are the major players in heart disease.

    Interestingly, the place where the author grew up, West Island area of Montreal is exactly where I grew up and was educated. I mention this because, one of the major takeaways in the book is the idea that people have that you can get at VitaminD from the summer sunshine. This totally scraped when she shows the data shown by living north of the 40 th parallel (an area including all of Canada and a large part of the northern US. Most people cannot get the needed Vitamin D in their diet and would need to supplement.

    As she mentions, the low fat diet which Is recommended, by physicians is particularly poor in supplying the other component of calcium metabolism, Vitamin K2. What allopathic medicine has done is to make heart disease more likely than not. These vitamins, D, K2, and A, when they are low, have also been associated with countless malignant tumors. The idea to avoid direct sunlight and use “sunscreen “, does not even have a benefit in preventing malignant melanoma.

    I have just taken a loading dose of Vitamin D and I can say that I have not felt as well in years. I am also taking Vitamin K2 and magnesium.

    Thank you for your tremendous book and by the way, I did my Family Practice Residency at McMaster University and while doing so, my wife and I rented a house in Ancaster, Ontario. Lots of luck in your career and book writing.

    Dr. James Michael Bell, MD.
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  • Gert Bo Thorgersen
    5.0 out of 5 stars A highly interesting book containing much important new knowledge concerning our health
    Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013
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    I ordered this book shortly after in Amazon haven received the recommendation to it, and then in the books title remarked, and then wandering, about the connection between the Vitamin K2 and Calcium, and therefore went into the book searching after more about what do the K2 have to do.

    Each day, I and my wife, are taking the Calcium and Magnesium, together with the other standard Vitamins, which I during my life again and again have learned to do. But furthermore because my wife is having the problem with joint pains and we therefore further more are trying to prevent the normal women problems concerning especially the vertebra. And besides, personally, 6 years ago, I was through a surgery, after, luckily, by pain, having resulted in by X-ray discovering the bone in the right arm, up to the hand, being hollow.

    But after in Amazon having ordered this book, I many times, in Amazon, went searching to find out what's writing we get in other books about respectively the Vitamins K1 and K2, instead of only learning of the K, but I, until now, have found nearly nothing. I owe more than 250 doctor and health books, and in the previous weeks, before ordering this book I was thinking about buying a 550 side's thick Biochemistry book, which is printed in 2010, and being used by studying persons. But even in this book, like in the other books in which I've been searching, I only have found writings about the Vitamin K, and not mentioning the K1 and the K2. And this when we in the actual book, "Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox", learns about in which quite different important processes the K1 and the K2 are involved. So this book written by Dr. Kate Rhéaume-Bleue surely is extremely up to date. And by now I'm speculating about waiting to buy the actual Biochemistry book until it comes as a new up to day printing.

    In the "Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox" book we are getting much important, and helpful, information. For example, to me, it was helpful to read which amount of the Vitamin A we must take, as here in Thailand we only can get this Vitamin pill I a size containing 25.000 IU, and then being nearly impossibly to cut them in halves. So I've been talking about the problem with doctors and chemist's, as we in all of the books which I've been reading, in the previous months, only are allowed daily to taking 8.000 or 10.000 IU. But in this book we for example read that daily taking 25.000 IU, during 2 to 12 years, newer have shown any problems. But especially we also learn about the important connection between the Vitamins A and D.

    But besides, as anther important information, we also learn much about the different half-life time for the 2 possible variants of the K2 which we can get. That is the HK-4 and HK-7, with their half-life times on respectively around 2 hour and 2 days. So that we have to use the HK-7, but in case we only can get the HK-4, then we have to part it over 3 times a day.

    In this book we for example also read many interesting information about how the teeth have changed with the culture, how Dr. Price, more that 70 years ago wrote, and showed, that already the first generation on the western food and culture had the deformed teeth. And that the reason especially is coursed by pregnant women missing K2, as already then the previous dimension of the jaw, for the not yet born child, is determined.

    But we also learn much about the importance of the K2 in the connections of among other: Diabetes, Arthritis, Brain, Nerve, Prostate Cancer, Lung Cancer, Liver Cancer, Leukemia, and Kidney Disease.

    But actual, for most persons we are having the importance of KT in the connection with the Aortas, and thereby Hearth Attack. And here we in an actual case result see how fast the K2 helped, cleaning for the Blood to pas by in Aorta, as after only 10 month the Aorta had cleaned inside by trebling the square area, by making the passage diameter increase from 1.6 cm to 2.9 cm.

    This book is absolutely a very important book, which in a couple of years nearly probably will be the only one in which we are getting the correct, and up to date, information concerning health.
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  • Amazonカスタマー
    5.0 out of 5 stars 白血病の治癒が　衝撃だった。
    Reviewed in Japan on February 7, 2020
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    この本を読んで　ビタミンK2mk4が　
    素晴らしいことを知りました。　
    ケイト博士によりますと　

    ビタミンK2は抗炎症剤だそうです。

    白血病の治癒　　
    mk4 を1日　20mgから90mg経口投与で約1年のようです。
    前立腺　乳がん　なども　　

    心臓や血管の健康を保つ　

    JeffTBowles著の
    ビタミンD3と共に　mk4とmk7 を　摂取しようと思いました。
    そーんのは、出しにくいけど大好きです。
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  • Valerie Brugnettini
    1.0 out of 5 stars interesting but incomplete.
    Reviewed in Italy on May 30, 2015
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    Not backed up by scientific trials. K2 blood level can't be analyzed and most of the trials with K2 were done on rats. Incomplete homework.
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  • Kevin at Dural
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Science behind K2
    Reviewed in Australia on June 9, 2020
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    Well written and researched with a great list of authentic references. Was just what I was after. The only negative was it was a bit repetitive. However, it was easy to read and very useful. We have changed what we eat because her arguments are so persuasive. My background is as a medical science researcher.
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  • Thierry Landrieu
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tres interessant . Assez technique sans excès
    Reviewed in France on January 19, 2016
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    A lire absolument dans le cadre d'une supplementation vitamine d + calcium sous peine de tout faire de travers .
    Seul bémol pas un mot sur les bienfaits de l'activité physique sur le squelette . A quoi bon absorber les outils de renouvellement des os si on ne compte pas s'en servir? Je suppose que l'auteur n'a pas voulu tout melanger .
    Après, l'auteur ne cherche pas à imposer un mode de vie , juste apporter des infos en précisant que la recherche est en cours .
    Pour le prix ne pas se gener .
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  • anamado
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinante
    Reviewed in Spain on June 4, 2018
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    Me encantó y fascinó leer este livro sobre Vitamina K2.
    Ahora entiendo bien la dinamica de las vitaminas liposolubles en nuestro organismo.
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