Protecting Tissue Valves
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AZ Don
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Good discussion. Supplementing w/ K2 makes a lot of sense for someone like me, with a native valve but at high risk for stenosis due to BAV.
Agian
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I've ordered K2 from ebay. Do people think Magnesium is worthwhile? Sounds like the jury is still out in regards to Vitamin D.
The jury is out of the courthouse and gone home, gave its verdict on vitamin D3 several years ago - and the verdict is that its highly beneficial for heart and most everything else ! If you can get enough vitamin D from the sun that's best, but get tested and if low take supplements....easy.
The jury is certainly still out and deliberating on vitamin K2 but I'm pretty certain from what I've read and from the research going on that it will prove to be beneficial too.
Jkm7
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Do you really think anything we do other than general healthy lifestyle, diet and exercise is going to have great influence on longevity of tissue valves?
neo
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Protecting Tissue Valves
It's possible. Doctors will usually not advise patients to do something unless there is "literature" proving that it works. Some kind of randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, long term study that proves without a doubt that the supplement or medicine will have a positive effect.
In regards to Vitamin K, Vitamin D, Magnesium, etc, there doesn't seem to be alot of mainstream "literature" supporting their positive role in specifically protecting tissue valves. So far, mostly theoretical or not specific to bovine/porcine tissue. It would make since that those supplements could protect and perhaps keep calcium away, as proven through other studies, but nothing specific to bioprosthetic valves so far.
There are ongoing studies with no published results yet, so someone must believe pretty strongly that they do have a positive effect. However, there is always a possibility that when the results are announced, that they have an opposite outcome then we would expect. That is why doctors never really advise anything, even if theoretically likely, unless there is documented proof of efficacy.
It's possible. Doctors will usually not advise patients to do something unless there is "literature" proving that it works. Some kind of randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, long term study that proves without a doubt that the supplement or medicine will have a positive effect.
In regards to Vitamin K, Vitamin D, Magnesium, etc, there doesn't seem to be alot of mainstream "literature" supporting their positive role in specifically protecting tissue valves. So far, mostly theoretical or not specific to bovine/porcine tissue. It would make since that those supplements could protect and perhaps keep calcium away, as proven through other studies, but nothing specific to bioprosthetic valves so far.
There are ongoing studies with no published results yet, so someone must believe pretty strongly that they do have a positive effect. However, there is always a possibility that when the results are announced, that they have an opposite outcome then we would expect. That is why doctors never really advise anything, even if theoretically likely, unless there is documented proof of efficacy.
There are lots of studies have been done on vitamin D and heart health, here's just a few I found in a couple of minutes on PubMed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23867332
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23751422
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23695367
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23709660
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23839752
Vitamin K2 is the one currently having ongoing studies.
