The information I’m about to present to you is extremely important for you to understand. I’ve made lots of videos which are all important in teaching you how to take care of your body, but I would highly recommend you listen to this one a few times so you fully understand it, because most people are unwittingly making lots of the mistakes which I will be discussing here, causing all kinds of health problems from osteoporosis to cancer and diabetes, heart disease and just about any other disease you can think of. And the answer to curing all these diseases lies in preventing them from occurring in the first place. And it’s so easy to do — you just have to know this very important piece of the puzzle I’m about to present here.
Let me tell you a little story of how this information was first discovered, at least here in the Western world. Of course, the enlightened rishis of India who cognized Ayurveda already knew this information, but it took a very long time for that to reach the countries outside of India. So we had to learn it the slow arduous way, and in fact, most of us still haven’t learned it — and that includes most doctors as well as the lay patients.
So here goes:
In the 1930’s one of the most prominent health researchers and dentists of the 20th century, Dr. Weston A. Price spent 10 years traveling the world in search of the secrets to perfect health and longevity. He went to both remote places and the crowded cities of 14 different countries looking for healthy people and doing extensive research on them. He wanted to see what their secret was for their robust health compared to the poor health the Americans were experiencing.
He found that those people who ate their indigenous foods had strong bones and perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health compared to those people who were introduced to modern foods, such as white refined flour, refined white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned and processed goods.
In other words, those who ate food the way nature intended, whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, meats and dairy products were extremely healthy.
He ended up writing a book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, comparing health statistics and photographs of those eating healthy with those who were eating processed foods. It became obvious to him after visiting so many people that those who ate the processed foods were much sicker than their indigenous counterparts who still lived in nature eating the wholesome foods which grew in the areas in which they lived. But there was something that intrigued him for years and he devoted a whole chapter discussing it in his book.
And this is what I would like to talk to you about today, because just knowing this one bit of information will go a long way into giving you the radiant health you are seeking.
He had discovered a new fat-soluble Vitamin. At first he thought it was Vitamin D, but then quickly realized it wasn’t that. It hadn’t been discovered yet, so he just called it Activator X. He believed it was a missing nutrient in our modern diet and that its absence could explain many of our modern diseases. He was able to heal dental cavities, reduce oral bacteria and restore life to sick and starving children who were near death by changing their diet to a more wholesome one which included this Activator X along with natural unprocessed foods.
He said Activator X was found in the butterfat of milk, in the eggs of fishes and the organs and fats of animals. Its highest concentration was found in milk when the cows were eating grasses, especially the quickly growing grasses which grow in the spring. He said it was also synthesized by the mammary glands and therefore found in breast milk, and played an important role in infant growth and development, as well as fertility and reproduction.
He said milk contained high amounts of this Activator X, but it was even more concentrated in butter. But he found he could concentrate the amounts further by centrifuging the butter and making a high vitamin “butter oil.”
Years later a name was given to this unknown fat-soluble Vitamin. It is now called Vitamin K2. Vitamin K1 is found in green leafy vegetables, but Dr. Price was specifically talking about this version, known as Vitamin K2, found in animal fats, milk, butter and butter oil.
Here is where the confusion lies. Vitamin K2 has differing types of side chains, represented as MK-4 to MK-13. MK means menaquinone; MK-5 through MK-13 are formed by bacterial synthesis. But the MK-4 is Dr. Prices’s activator X, which is unique and is the ONLY form that is not the product of bacterial synthesis but comes from animal sources.
So it is the MK-4, from animal fats, such as milk, butter and butter oil which give the very important health benefits. Note that butter and concentrated butter products such as ghee contain 100% MK-4. There are no bacterial MKs in these products. MK-4 is the fat found in nature which is designed for the growth and nourishment of all mammals.
Only Vitamin K1 and MK4 are found in the umbilical cord blood. The placenta actually blocks MK-7 while allowing MK-4 into the unborn child. High concentrations of MK-4 are found in the placenta. And MK-4 is needed for the development of the child.
In fact the traditional sacred foods for preconception and pregnancy were foods rich in MK-4 and babies were always weaned onto foods containing high amounts of MK-4.
MK-4 also helps in building strong bones and strong teeth. It also prevents cancer, diabetes and other serious diseases.
So let’s stop right here and examine this a little further. This is very interesting. Let’s look at the amounts of MK-4 found in certain fats: whole milk contains 10 units, butter jumps up to 90 units as you concentrate the fat out of the milk. Dr. Price concentrated the butter fat more by centrifuging the butter and creating a butter oil which contains 196-240 units. But look at this: ghee contains the absolute highest amount, which is 270-360 units!
The ancient doctors were so wise to recommend concentrating the MK-4 in this way. Of course they didn’t have the name for MK-4 but they knew at their high level of enlightenment that eating ghee, the essence of the cow’s milk would be very good for the developing child’s brain as well as for the mother’s fertility. Now we have solid research showing how correct they were. And they knew how to make it very concentrated: by making yogurt from heavy cream, churning that into butter and then simmering out the water and daily solids, or clarifying the butter, which concentrates the MK-4.
Vitamin K2 directs any and all calcium that comes into your body it into the teeth and bones, and away from the arteries, joints and other organs and glands. This is why Dr. Price found hundreds of specimens of people who had problems with their teeth and dental arches who were deficient in MK-4 yet those who ate these concentrated forms of fat had no problems with their bones or teeth.
And again, the ancient doctors were prescient in stating that the fat tissue was the raw material for the bone. That you needed good quality fat tissue to be converted into good quality bone.
Now here’s the sad part. For years doctors have been telling people to avoid cholesterol and eat low fat diets. Just about the whole world changed their eating habits and started ingesting refined vegetable oils once doctors proclaimed that we should discard butter and instead eat margarine. Even in India ghee factories opened up making ghee from margarine. This is when our health took a nosedive. People started developing osteoporosis, dental cavities, arthritis and heart disease at epidemic levels. Women became infertile and children began developing all forms of speech and developmental delays.
Even to this day most restaurants continue to cook with a blend of refined vegetable oils. This is even true of all the health food stores who advertise that their baked goods are baked with oils, and not butter, thinking that this is a healthy thing to do. They don’t realize that these oils oxidize at these high baking temperatures and are very dangerous for our health.
It became obvious that when you heat the vegetable oils they form a plastic which clogs the arteries causing all the strokes and heart attacks we are witnessing today. So nowadays people are moving away from the polyunsaturated vegetable oils and instead are turning towards eating the more saturated avocado and coconut oils. These oils are somewhat heavy and hard to digest. People should learn about ghee. It is saturated, but very easy to digest. And it provides the very high doses of Vitamin K2 MK-4 that our bodies crave.
This was also very interesting to note: Dr. Price called this nutrient “Activator X” because he said that it acted as an activator or catalyst which aided in the absorption and assimilation of all the nutrients from our diets — protein, minerals, vitamins. He stated, “It is possible to starve for minerals that are abundant in the foods eaten because they cannot be utilized without an adequate quantity of the fat soluble activators.”
In other words that amounts of the nutrients we absorb into our cells depends on these fat-soluble vitamins. The ancient doctors knew this as well, which is why ghee is used as the base of many Ayurvedic herbal preparations. The herbs are cooked into the ghee because the ghee delivers them across the cell wall. And eating ghee in the diet does in fact enhance the absorption of all the nutrients we eat in our food since all the cell walls in our body are made of cholesterol and ghee becomes the vehicle to drag the nutrients across those fatty cell wall membranes and into our cells. Keep in mind: the food we eat can’t help you much unless it gets broken down and absorbed into the insides of your cells.
And here’s the other problem: Now that Vitamin K2 has been discovered, it is being put in all the synthetic Vitamin D supplements since K2 helps to ensure that the calcium transported by the Vitamin D is absorbed into your bones where it’s needed rather than being deposited in your arteries.
BUT…the type of Vitamin K2 that we get in supplements is MK-7 (yes, the type rejected by the placenta as previously mentioned), not the type we get in food. The best way to get active and efficiently assimilated Vitamin K2 is from food.
An NIH-funded study involving 27,000 people over a six-year period found that the health benefits associated with adequate intake of vitamins came from getting these nutrients through eating food as opposed to taking synthetic vitamin supplements.
There has been other research in 2018 by Nolan Chatron and his group who demonstrated that MK-4 had strong binding in the tissues whereas the MK-7 showed shaky binding and no stability, leading to MK-7 binding failure, which means they are not bioactive and at a very deep level cannot be utilized by the tissues. MK-4 on the other hand is very strong in its binding capacity, very stable and promotes healthy binding of calcium so it can be taken to the teeth and bones and away from the tissues and arteries.
And this all points up again to what the ancient rishis were trying to tell us: we want our nutrients to contain pranic energy, which means they should be grown outside under the healing rays of the sun and moon. This echoes Dr. Price when he stated that synthetic supplementation drowns out the wisdom of our ancestors — the knowledge that all health starts with nutrient-dense whole foods. As Dr. Price has stated, “People of the past obtained a substance that modern generations do not have.” And now we know this substance is his Activator X, now known as Vitamin K2 MK-4.
And Dr. Royal Lee, another famous dentist, researcher and founder of Standard Process Labs stated, “Just as the chemist cannot create life, neither can he create a complex vitamin, the life element in foods and nutrition. This is a mystery the chemist has not solved and probably never will.”
And keep this in mind, there is a widespread deficiency of Vitamin K2 MK-4 in the world due to our aversion to eating animal fat, animals raised eating anything other than grass, factory farms, high antibiotic use in animal feeds and in humans, animals fed GMO corn and soy, soil depletion, glyphosate, processed foods, and dysfunction of the gut. And if you are taking a statin or blood thinner these drugs create a deficiency in Vitamin K2 as they lower the cholesterol that the body so desperately needs to stay healthy.
And to make matters worse, many people are choosing plant-based milks over full-fat cow’s milk because it’s been drummed into their mind from an early age that cholesterol is bad for you and should be avoided at all costs. By doing so, they don’t realize they are eliminating one of nature’s most important foods. Fortunately it is becoming easier and easier to get very high quality whole milk from cows who haven’t been given any antibiotics or growth hormones and are out grazing in the pastures eating untreated grass.
As we grow into old age, we are entering what is known as the Vata stage of life, which means the element of dryness becomes more prominent in our bodies. Therefore it becomes important for us to keep lubricating various parts of our bodies because If our joints get dry, we can suffer arthritic aches and pains. The brain needs a continuous supply of cholesterol to prevent dementia. The hormones that keep you young, estrogen and progesterone in women and testosterone in men are made out of cholesterol, and even if we are post menopausal we still make these hormones. Which means we need to give our glands the raw materials, the cholesterol, to make these important hormones well into old age. And always remember this: cholesterol comes from an animal. So while avocados, coconuts, nuts, seeds and other plant-based fats may be good for many other bodily functions, they do not contain the much-needed cholesterol that the body needs. We need to keep up our intake of good fats since it is the fat tissue that transforms into the bone tissue. We also need to nourish the fatty layers in our skin to prevent the drying, sagging and wrinkling that can occur with old age. And don’t forget our skin also needs a constant supply of cholesterol since the sunlight hitting the skin converts the cholesterol into not only Vitamin D, but also serotonin, melatonin, endorphins and many other hormones and neurotransmitters that the brain and body need to function properly.
So it’s important for us to keep up our intake of fats, and understand which are the most important sources of the highly important Vitamin K2 MK-4: found in milk and at higher levels in butter, with the highest amounts found in ghee made from grass-fed cow butter.
There is a reason why our elderly ancestors ate more of this fatty nutrient as they aged. We should listen to this wisdom and pass it on to future generations.
Thank you