A short YouTube discussion (by Shilpa Sayana, MD) recommending core supplements for cardiovascular health. Key recommendations: methylated B-complexes to reduce homocysteine (a heart disease/inflammation risk marker), vitamin D paired with vitamin K2 (speaker cites ~5000 units vitamin D and ~180 for K2) to direct calcium to bones and away from vessels/valves, omega-3s for inflammation and vascular protection, and probiotics; multivitamins viewed as less useful if diet is nutrient-rich.
Questions this video answers
About 5000 units (vitamin D).
About 180 (units unspecified in transcript).
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So in terms of supplements that I recommend in general for cardiovascular health, and.
In no particular order, methylated B complexes.
I think are really important.
Multivitamins, not so much, especially if you're.
Eating a good nutrient rich diet. Right. But if you have methylation issue, if you're not able to methylate your B.
Complexes, this will lead to, among other things, increase in an amino acid called.
Homocysteine, which we can measure. And homocysteine is associated with increased risk of heart disease and inflammation.
Methylated B complexes, vitamin D along with vitamin K2.
In this day and age, with the knowledge that we have, with the science.
That we have, no one should be.
On just a D3 alone. Now I, when I say that, yes.
If you're 20 years old, you could be on just a D3, but D, what D does is indiscriminately pushes calcium into tissues.
Yes, we want it in our bones, but we don't want it in our valves, we don't want it in our blood vessels, we don't want it in our brain. So prescription kind doesn't have D in it. Right. So you just tell people to take a supplement. Yes, I tell people to take a supplement. And a multivitamin doesn't have enough D. So vitamin D should be about 5000 unit, vitamin K2, about 180.
What K does is like those people.
On the airport where they say this plane goes here, this plane goes there.
Yeah.
K will actually tell the D where.
To put the calcium and it can.
Also help to remove calcium from where it doesn't belong. So if somebody, particularly if you haven't done a coronary artery calcium scan and you know that you have a high.
Calcium, you should be taking K2 in.
Order to decalcify the blood vessels.
Omega 3 for inflammation.
It acts as a, as a protective coat on those blood vessels. Probiotics. Right.
