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Vitamin D For Kidney Disease, Should You Take Vitamin K With Vitamin D For Kidney Disease?

Vitamin D and vitamin K deficiency is a common feature of chronic kidney disease, leading to worsening bone quality and a higher risk of kidney damage over time. Based on the existing results of clinical studies, reviews intend to discuss the effect of Vitamin D and Vitamin K on bone remodeling and damage in CKD. Impaired kidney function impacts the quality of bone tissue and results in the development of disorders for the kidneys. 

What is Vitamin D3 And How Does It Help Kidney Disease?

Vitamin D3 and kidney disease, the nutrient that if you have kidney disease you must get checked because it is very important. Vitamin d is the most important nutrient for kidney health because it goes deficient in such a large population of people with kidney disease and most studies it’s anywhere from 80 to 90 percent and sometimes higher so you must get this vitamin checked. Vitamin k and vitamin d are two important nutrients and they relate to your kidney health and there are plenty of things you should do about it. Vitamin d is a fat-soluble vitamin means you need some fat to absorb it. It’s also a prohormone so it acts like a hormone in the body and it’s responsible for just hundreds and hundreds of processes you need it for so many things and if you’re low if you’re deficient. If you don’t have an optimized range all these different things happen so the biggest thing when it comes to kidney disease is you’re going to lose kidney function faster. if you don’t have an adequate vitamin d level you also have a higher mortality risk meaning you die sooner you’re also at higher risk of fractures, bone problems, and cardiovascular disease. Do essentially a proper vitamin d level in your body really helps every part of kidney disease from slowing it down to improving it even reduces protein in the urine to a degree so you can see why this vitamin is so important and nobody is debating this vitamin.

How To Check For Vitamin D?
There’s no medical society organization that’s saying you shouldn’t take it. the first thing you need to do is get tested you want to get tested for that vitamin d level to know where you’re at and it doesn’t matter where you live because they even look at populations in the middle east and places where it’s sunny almost all year because you get vitamin d from the sun and it didn’t matter even these places all that have sun all year, the people who had kidney disease there were still deficient. for most people who have kidney disease, you’re going to come back deficient. you can either use d2 okay which is the synthetic form of vitamin d that you would get from your doctor or most people use vitamin d3 it’s the more natural form. your blood test is going to have a range on your vitamin d, it’s going to go from zero to a hundred. thirty being deficient so anything 30 or less and even like 35 or less shows that that’s not optimal and not good for kidney disease. on that range in your blood work, you really want to be between like 40 to 50 to 60 40 to 60. higher than that of high 50 60 range we have a lot of doctors saying you should take more get your levels up to 80 100. We know that with kidney disease one of the biggest problems is calcification. calcification of the vascular system that’s what makes you more prone to cardiovascular to heart disease issues and so taking those higher doses of vitamin d increase calcium absorption and you might be increasing the calcium absorption in the wrong places so we know we don’t want to take the risk and just go higher because higher you think is better not necessarily you want to keep anybody with kidney disease to that safer range and that 50 to 60 area. but don’t push it higher because we don’t know long term what the problems are and if you have high calcium with kidney disease treatment is to stop taking vitamin d because if you stop taking the vitamin d you’re not gonna absorb that calcium and your levels can come down in the blood work.
How Vitamin D2 and Vitamin K Should Be Taken
Vitamin D is needed to be found when getting tested, you’ll need to supplement to either get the vitamin d2 from your doctor or d3 that’s over the counter and to start, most people will do well with 2 000 IU’s of vitamin d3 and at 2000. I use vitamin d3 it’s 50 micrograms what the new measurements are that they’re changing over to so that’s what you want to find there is higher there are lower doses really hard to say without having your blood tested because if you have really low levels of vitamin d then you can take more but at a safe recommendation for anybody 2 000 is good so that’s vitamin d okay get tested make sure you get tested first anybody kidney disease should if deficiency start to correct it now the other problem with kidney disease is cardiovascular disease so when the kidneys don’t work right you’re at a much higher rate of heart disease. Cholesterol levels go off you know blood pressure a big issue with kidney disease and so Vitamin K2. It is another fat soluble nutrient that they found to be deficient in people with chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis and very high rates of deficiency and if you supplement with vitamin k2 you up you correct those deficiencies and in  turn we have a lot of studies and research showing that the cardiovascular disease risks come down and now they sell a lot of vitamin d3 with k2 combine because it does not just help people with kidney disease but it helps other people the general the general market the people who don’t have kidney issues so just to show you one what we have in the office here this is a vitamin d3 with k2 so you want to get it in a combination form if possible the standard of treatment for a long time was just d3 by itself that’s fine if that’s all you have access to that’s good but if you can find the vitamin d with k2 that’s preferred because you’re going to get more benefits more good things for your health and that’s vitamin d3 k2 like this video if you like it comment if you like let us know what else you’d like to see and get tested check that d if you’re going to take the d3 try to get that k2 with it check out our other videos here in our channel a lot of great things to improve your kidney health with things that are in your powerthings that you have control over.