Grass-Fed Butter Good For The Heart…

A friend recently recommended ‘Nutrition And Physical Degeneration’, the classic work on how what we eat shapes us …for better and worse, by American dentist Weston A. Price (1870-1948).

This 1930s dentist discovered that dental caries and crowded, crooked teeth are the result of nutritional deficiencies, not inherited genetic defects. He found that Indigenous communities away from western influence had

“beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, good physiques, resistance to disease…typical of native groups on their traditional diets, rich in essential nutrients.”

When he analysed the foods used by isolated peoples he found, in comparison with the American diet of his day, that these foods

• provided at least four times the water-soluble vitamins, calcium and other minerals and,
• at least TEN times the fat-soluble vitamins, from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish, organ meats, eggs and animal fats – the very cholesterol-rich foods now shunned by as unhealthy.

Without Fats We Can’t Absorb Minerals And Vitamins

Healthy traditional peoples knew instinctively what scientists of the 30s had recently discovered, that fat-soluble vitamins A and D, were vital to health because they acted as catalysts to mineral absorption and protein utilization.

Weston Price Discovered Activator X (Vitamin K2)

Activator X or Vitamin K2, an additional fat-soluble nutrient was discovered in fish livers and shellfish, in organ meats and butter from cows eating rapidly growing green grass in the Spring and Autumn.

Vitamin K2 – The Missing Nutrient?

Chris Kresser, practitioner of integrative medicine states that a study by the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) has revealed that increased intake of vitamin K2 may reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 35 percent. The authors point out that the benefits of K2 were most pronounced for advanced prostate cancer, and, importantly, that K1 did not offer any prostate benefits.

It has been confirmed that vitamin K2?s role in the body extends far beyond blood clotting to include

• protecting us from heart disease
• ensuring healthy skin
• forming strong bones
• promoting brain function
• supporting growth and development and helping to prevent cancer

Vitamin K2 has so many functions not associated with K1 that many researchers say that K1 and K2 are best seen as two different vitamins entirely.

NB Although animals can convert K1 to K2 it seems humans require preformed K2 in the diet to obtain and maintain optimal health.

List Of Foods Highest In Vitamin K2 – as measured by the USDA

Natto
Hard cheese
Soft cheese
Egg yolk
Grass-fed butter
Chicken liver
Salami
Chicken breast
Ground beef

Grass-Fed Butter Is Loaded With Vitamin-K2 – It De-Calcifies Arteries

Vitamin K1 (phylloquinone)is found in plant foods like leafy greens and K2 (menaquinone)is found in animal foods.

Even though the two forms are structurally similar, they appear to have different effects on the body. While K1 is important in blood clotting, Vitamin K2 helps to keep calcium out of our arteries.

Now the hunt for grass-fed butter at Farmers’ Markets!