Hello, everyone, I'm new here, and I found this forum by googling Vit K2 + Marshall Protocol. I googled that because I had been reading the Marshall site a little over a year ago. I found that site by googling a set of symptoms that I had, and found that a lot of people there had so many of the same symptoms as me. I read a lot and decided to try avoiding sunlight, as that was my main source of Vit D at the time, but I didn't do the meds. After a short period of extreme herxing, I started to feel better, and after about 6 months I no longer needed to wear sunglasses all the time. However, appearancewise, I aged at the speed of light. I knew that my body had some sort of intolerance to Vit D because for the past few years over the winter I would start to feel better, by spring I would feel pretty good, and then by the middle of the summer I would get so tired that when outside in the sun I could hardly walk. Also, I could eat foods containing Vit d without a problem during the winter, but during the summer they would cause severe headaches and fatigue. Because of my experience, I became a big advocate of not taking Vitamin D supplements and believed that Vit D in large doses could be harmful.
Fortunately, someone told me about an article at
www.westonaprice.org that made me realize that I was right in a way, but for the wrong reason. In his article about Vit K2, Chris Masterjohn explains that Vitamin D is toxic only when it's taken out of proportion to the amount of Vitamin A and Vitamin K2 in the diet, and was wondering if Marshall had at any point addressed this issue. I haven't found an answer to that question yet, but I am assuming that he would not care to talk about it. When you consider all the issues that Vit K2 is involved with in synergy with Vit A and D, it seems as though Vit K2 along with Vit A would actually solve most of the issues that are talked about at the Marshall site.
I think people who are very deficient in Vit K2 are the ones who will exhibit most quickly the signs of vit d toxicity. Unfortunately, if you are deficient in Vit K2, you then won't be able to reap the benefits of Vit D and Vit A, and you will most likely have multiple health problems.
I also think that the reason that not only some, but a lot, of people actually do get better using the Marshall Protocol is that frequently there is biofilm involved in cases of Vit K2 deficiency, and perhaps once that is dealt with, symptoms subside, albeit only temporarily. At this point, that is just a theory, though. I only started to think about this several days ago, and so many different aspects of this issue are swimming around in my head.
I am now on the Vit D wagon, but I am trying to get my Vit D through good quality foods and whatever sunlight I can get. I try to eat foods high in Vit K2 and Vit A, but I'm not sure yet how to balance them. I do take a Vit K2 supplement because I have had symptoms of it's deficiency since I was a child.
Violet