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In Defense of
Vitamin K2 MK-4:
Dr. Price’s Activator X
By Elizabeth Schlinsog and Will Schlinsog, DC
he discovery of vitamin K was worthy of the
prestigious Nobel Prize in medicine. In 1943
TCarl Peter Henrik Dam, for his discovery of
vitamin K, shared this honor with Edward A. Doisy, for his
discovery of its chemical structure.
In 1929 Dam had found that chicks fed a cholesterol-free diet developed
a bleeding disorder, not remedied by cholesterol. (He cured them by giving
them either green leaves or hog liver.) Dam called it vitamin K because of
the German spelling for Koagulation.
He believed that vitamin K was only involved in coagulation. In fact,
at the end of his Nobel lecture, Dam stated, “It therefore seems unlikely
that vitamin K as such should play any role in the prevention of caries.” 1
Ironically, Dr. Weston A. Price, around the same time, had found a fat-
soluble vitamin that he referred to as activator X, which not only helped
prevent and heal caries, but also helped shape the very faces of the isolated
peoples he studied. He felt it was such an important nutrient that in 1945
he added a new chapter to his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. 2
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