My wife is on Coumadin and tries to limit her vitamin K intake as this upsets her blood thinner balance. This is difficult because she loves all the green vegetables. She wonders if she were to peel the vegetables such as zucchini and eat only the stalks of broccoli, would this help. She is assuming that the vitamin k is primarily in the green part of the plants. Is this a correct assumption?

The only one that I know of is cabbage. The outer leaves contain more K than the inner leaves. Fermented foods are bad for her too, because the friendly flora produce vitamin K very well. That's a very difficult problem, because K can be found in so many veggies.

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I suggest that she eat the veggies that she wants to eat and monitor her PT/INR. She should be able to stablilize her coumadin dosage to be compatilble with her intake of veggies... she will need to be consistend in her veggie intake though. Make a schedule... monday broccoli, tuesday, chard, thursday something else, friday something else etc... all in measured amounts... keep it consisitent week after week.

The best thing she can do is find her way off of coumadin. It should be possible unless she has atrial fib or some kind of cardiac implant. Look into nattokinase. Do a forum search here.

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Doctors prescribe blood thinners like coumadin, warfarin, and aspirin because they don't know that there are better, natural blood thinners such as vitamin C, and vitamin E, that thin the blood without the negative side effects.

In fact, very few doctors know anything about vitamins and nutrients.

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Isn't K2 the vitamin our body really needs?

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