It's really a waste of time getting a calcium score prior to taking vitamin K2. It's proven that K2 can reverse calcification of soft tissue, so go ahead and take it. What the hell do you have to lose besides a few pennies a month, it's a vitamin! After a couple of months you could get a calcium score done to see if you are taking enough (because some get side-effects at low dosages).
As for my 71 year old relative, his blood pressure is down from 170-190 systolic to approx. 130 (can go a little bit lower at around 120 but it swings around 120-135, average is around 130) from taking simple supplements that lower lipoprotein(a), as I have already explained exhaustively. Some other user did not respond to the same supplement mix but who cares when a majority who take this combo do get better.
There is no excuse not to take the linus pauling combo with nicotinic acid, carnitine and a few other things. I'd go ahead and say that high dose niacin (nicotinic acid) and carnitine, 3-4g of each, is much more superior to any other combo, but I'm going off from mere assumption based upon what I've noticed.
I'm hoping that the vitamin k2 my 71 relative started not long ago will be the final nail in the coffin for his arterial plaque.
How the hell will you know if the K2 is helping if you don't have before and after score?
After three years of taking 500+ mcg of vitamin K2 (MK-7) my carotid and coronary plaque scores had slightly increased. If the K2 did ANYTHING it might have slowed the progression, but it did not reverse the plaque scores, even at that daily high dose, combined with its required nutrient partners vitamin A and vitamin D.
I have studied K2 extensively and conversed with the Maastrickt University team that has been studying K2 for a dozen years and was quite surprised to find that the "after" scans did not show any progress in reversing plaque.
The only thing that produced a clear effect, that of lowing of blood pressure significantly, was taking Dasatinib with quercitin, to remove senescent cells. Two exposures to DQ and within a couple of weeks my blood pressure dropped from what could be a high of about 140-150/80-100 to 100-120/60-75, like a 20-year old's.
Even during times when I would normally expect my BP to be high, such as after a stressful day, I would measure my BP and find that it was maybe 115/65. This happened consistently for a couple of months.
This was QUITE noticeable, as my BP had been gradually rising over some years.
This lasted for about 60 days and then there has been a gradual increase again, but it still hasn't reached the highs that were frequently what I encountered before I used DQ.
DQ apparently got rid of sensescent cells in the endothelial lining of my arteries and so the endothelium was able to regenerate with new "young" cells. Thus, arterial flexibility improved tremendously, which showed itself as much lower BP.
I haven't used DQ again, because it did cause some facial fat loss, such that I have a line on my face that was not there before and I do not want more loss of facial fat tissue.
I also did not re-do coronary and carotid scans yet.
As far as therapies to regenerate everything via clearing senescent cells we will see the emergence of side-effect free therapies, that don't have the potential adverse effects that DQ does.
As to single molecules that have some role in arterial health, I have done and am doing many of them from niacin to acetyl L-carnitine to K2 (MK-7). Several of them do have some beneficial effects. But none of them do enough.
I figure that if I wait until FOXO4-DRI becomes more available/less costly, I will use that to clear senescent cells globally, without the side-effects of DQ.
That is when we will have the opportunity to regenerate a fresh new arterial system.
Edited by mikey, 26 July 2017 - 05:39 PM.