Laurence Vincent explains why fat-soluble vitamins like D, K2, A, and E matter for mineral absorption and overall health. These vitamins work together biochemically to help your body actually use the minerals you consume.
But there's one other supplement that is as important as minerals that's intimately tied with minerals in a way that people don't understand and that is vitamin D. Have you heard of that? No. Max, you have D, A, K, E. This is all of the fat soluble vitamins altogether. So we all know about vitamin D. I've been hitting that one since I started my first blog post. Vitamin D3 is so important, but if you're not taking vitamin K2 with it, you can actually have vitamin D drive calcium into scar tissue into your arteries. So, so it's critically important you get vitamin K2 and a little bit of K1 probably with your vitamin D3. But if you do that and you don't have enough vitamin A, Vitamin A is part of what drives minerals into your cells, including iodine. And plant based vitamin A doesn't work. Beta carotene is not vitamin A. No matter how many times you call it plant based vitamin A, it doesn't magically transform into retinol, which is the substance you need. So when you take vitamin D, which is something I'm making for upgrade labs, but you don't have to take, you can buy a vitamin E here and a vitamin K2, you can do all these things and, and when you do that magically, the minerals you take will go into your cells and stay there where they belong. But if you take minerals and you don't have your fat solubles, the minerals don't work.
