January 5, 2022
—–Original Message—–
From: Y. David P
To: Jeff T. Bowles<jeffbo@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 5, 2022 6:04 am
Subject: Vitamin K2 and HEART RACING plus HYPERTENSION</jeffbo@aol.com>Dear Jeff,
My name is David, I am living in Berlin, Germany, and I am very much interested
in your amazing research !
I bought all your books and studied them carefully, after which, inspired by them,
I begun to use myself your D3-protocol with additional K2, Mag, Zinc and Boron
supplementation. I’ve been doing this for a month so far, and had had only good
results until now. I am 50 y.old and generally very healthy.
But after the successful trial of your protocol on my myself, I recommended it
to my mother, 80 y. old, generally healthy, but having a history of hypertension,
requiring her to take daily pills to manage her hypertension condition.
She have been taking 20000 IU of D3 daily, plus 2 capsules of SuperK from LEF,
plus Mag, Zinc and Boron according to your recommended dosages.
Now, after two weeks on this protocol, she has developed some disturbing
symptoms, of HEART RACING and HYPERTENSION, not experienced by her
before she started using your protocol.
I remembered what I read in your books about such conditions being a symptom
of too much vitamin K2, depleting the calcium from the soft tissues and bringing
them back into the bones, so that the calcium level in the blood would become too
small, thus causing these cardio-vascular symptoms.
Upon this consideration, I begun giving her in addition to a general MultiVitamin
and MultiMineral supplement, an additional Calcium supplement.
Then I said to my mother to lower the dose of K2 to only one SuperK capsule a day,
still keeping all the other components of your protocol like D3, Mag, etc. at the same
level. Her hypertension symptoms became much less, but the heart racing remained.
After this I recommended her to stop taking SuperK altogether and switch to the
Vitamin K2 from VitaminExpress.de, taking 4 capsules a 200 mcg K2 of MK7 type,
while taking 20000 IU of D3 daily. After this change, her heart racing and hypertension
symptoms remained on the same level, which prompted me to set her daily dose
of K2 to be even less, taking only 3*200mcg of K2 from VitaminExpress.
Her hypertension symptoms improved but the heart racing remained.
After this we decided, yesterday, to stop taking K2 altogether, while still continuing
taking the daily dose of vitamin D3 (20000 IU) plus Mag, Zinc and Boron as usual.
After skipping only one day taking K2 (no K2 at all for one day), her heart racing
symptoms seem to have disappeared and the hypertension also improved !
Dear Jeff, what can you recommend us in this situation ?!
Should she keep taking D3 WITHOUT K2 ?
Could it be dangerous causing the calcification and atherosclerosis ?
Should we lower the dose of K2 ?
Should we take another type of K2 ?
Or should my mother stop using your protocol altogether ?
What do You think ?
Best regards,
David P
Hello David
Yes you have uncovered a perplexing puzzle I have been looking at for years and I have finally come up with what I think is the right answer.
Both and or either Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 (especially the MK7 type) tend to rapidly deplete your magnesium. So the hearty racing and blood pressure changes are actually caused by aggravating an underlying magnesium deficiency which is triggered by either or both D3 and K2…
The problem with taking al the cofactors at once is that the D3 and K2 get into your system very fast..and starts eating up your magnesium faster…While it takes a much longer time to increase your magnesium levels D3 and K2 levels can jump up in just a day or two..To increase the magnesium levels in your body takes two weeks to a month before you start getting a meaningful increase in your tissue magnesium.
And to fully correct a magnesium deficiency can take a whole year!
So if I were her and you I would stop the D3 for a month or two don’t worry the d3 stays in your fat and does not come down for 6 weeks to 2 months while the other cofactors come down quickly..so you might want to keep taking a little born zinc and k2 of the mk4 type…
Now she should then work on reverse her magnesium deficiency which is hard to do I will send you an email on that
After a month or so of reversing the Mag def…she can then slowly add the d3 and k2 back and watch for symptoms
let me know how it goes!!!
JB