{"id":61652,"date":"2025-09-22T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61652"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:48:59","slug":"vitamin-k-helps-lower-mortality-risk-in-people-with-fatty-liver-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61652","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin K helps lower mortality risk in people with fatty liver disease."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Higher vitamin K intake from food was linked to a 19% lower risk of death in people with fatty liver disease, according to new long-term research. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Even moderate vitamin K intake \u2014 below 121 micrograms per day \u2014 was linked to a 33% drop in death risk, especially in those not taking supplements.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Obese individuals and older adults showed less benefit from vitamin K, likely due to reduced utilization or nutrient trapping in fat tissue with age and body weight.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A major cause of fatty liver disease is excess linoleic acid (LA) and low choline intake, which together damage mitochondria, impair fat metabolism, and promote dangerous fat buildup in the liver.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/health-healing\/vitamin-k-helps-lower-mortality-risk-in-people-with-fatty-liver-disease\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/health-healing\/vitamin-k-helps-lower-mortality-risk-in-people-with-fatty-liver-disease\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher vitamin K intake from food was linked to a 19% lower risk of death in people with fatty liver disease, according to new long-term research. Even moderate vitamin K intake \u2014 below 121 micrograms per day \u2014 was linked to a 33% drop in death risk, especially in those not taking supplements. Obese individuals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vitamin K helps lower mortality risk in people with fatty liver disease.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61653,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61652\/revisions\/61653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}