Here you will find some useful info on Vitamin K benefits. Vitamin K has a key role in converting glutamate to gamma-carboxyglutamate (also known as gla). The name ‘vitamin K’ came from the German and Scandinavian word “Koagulation”, since this vitamin is also known as “Koagulation vitamin” in those languages. Later on the name was accepted world wide.
One of the most important roles of vitamin K is to modify proteins needed for blood coagulation processes. It is also needed in processes involving other proteins needed for metabolism of certain tissues and bones.
The place of vitamin K production is the large intestine. The feature that makes this vitamin different from most of other vitamins is that it’s produced by bacteria. So deficiency of this vitamin in a human body is very rare. It could happen if one consumes large amounts of antibiotics during a long period of time. Again – vitamin K deficiency is not common for one more reason: it is recycled all the time in body cells.
Vitamin K has its synthetic forms. Those are vitamins K3, K4 and K5. K3 found its use in pet foods and vitamin K5 is used in fungal growth.
Sources of this vitamin are green vegetables (cabbage, spinach, and broccoli) and fruits like kiwi and avocado. There are also certain oils that contain this vitamin, but not in such large amounts, so one would have to consume (too) much oil in his diet to obtain daily dose. As we all know, too much oil is bad for your health, so try to get your daily dose of vitamin K from other sources that are healthy.