Nearly 100 years ago, Dr. Weston A. Price noticed that traditional cultures with excellent teeth and strong bones were eating diets rich in animal fats.

He believed these foods contained a missing fat-soluble nutrient that helped the body use minerals properly.

He called it Activator X.

Price found it to be especially concentrated in butterfat from cows eating rapidly growing green grass.

Activator X is now thought to be vitamin K2..

And we now know that Vitamin K2 helps keep calcium out of your arteries and into bones and teeth.

Vitamin K2 is mostly from animal foods.

Yet the irony is people limit animal foods for “heart health” reasons, thereby becoming K2 deficient and increasing cardiovascular risk via vascular calcification.

In the Rotterdam Study, people in the highest third of vitamin K2 intake had:

• 52% less severe aortic calcification
• 41% lower risk of coronary heart disease
• 57% lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease
• 26% lower all-cause mortality

Vitamin K1 (the plant form of vitamin K) was not associated with these outcomes.

When herbivores eat plants, they can convert K1 to K2 and store it in their tissues, milk, and fat.

Humans can convert some K1 to K2, but we do it very poorly.

In other words:

We did not evolve eating grass. We evolved eating the animals that ate the grass.

That is the pattern you see repeated in human nutrition.

Herbivores convert the plant world into more bioavailable nutrients we can use.

Yet these fatty animal foods are the very foods we are told to avoid.

Butter consumption has dropped over 60% since Price’s time, while vegetable oils and chronic diseases have soared.

But yes, it’s the butter and animal fats we must cut down on.

IN GOD WE TRUST

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