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Protective Blood

Vitamin K – Protective Blood

Vitamin K is a fat soluble vitamin which is usually called the coagulation vitamin or antihaemorrhagic factor because of its role.

In addition, by origin, vitamin K isolated from green plants is called K1 or phylloquinone, is synthesized in the intestinal bacteria of the human body is called K2 or menaquinone and one that is made in synthetic form called menadione or K3.

As the alternative name implies, vitamin K has the primary function involved in the synthesis of clotting factors, therefore, is essential in the formation of clotting proteins such as prothrombin.

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