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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by pmoriarty on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:47AM (#23081293)
You might want to take Vitamin K along with your Vitamin D, particularly if you're taking large doses of the latter, which can cause calcification of the soft tissues in your body, while Vitamin K makes sure that calcium gets deposited in your bones, as it should. Here is one of many articles that talks about the connection:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-and-vitamin-k

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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by silverdrake11 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:51PM (#23082041)
Vitamin K also increases risk of blood clots. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/vitamin-k-can-dangerous-t...
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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by JulianMorrison on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:35PM (#23082560)
When you get a blood clot, Warfarin that they give you for it is literally a vitamin K blocker.
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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by legerdemain on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:48PM (#23083368)
Warfarin is also literally used as rat poison, with the same mechanism of action.
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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by mmastrac on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @06:59PM (#23086118)
"The dose makes the poison."

Botox is a pretty powerful tool for doctors when applied locally in small quantities, but often fatal in Botulism. Water is necessary for life, but hyponatremia is a real thing.

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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by cko on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:04PM (#23083565)
To my understanding, not if you don't take warfarin. There's no upper limit of vitamin K intake for healthy people.
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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by amelius on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:27PM (#23081779)
There's also a connection with magnesium.

https://www.livescience.com/61866-magnesium-vitamin-d.html

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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by BruceEel on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:00PM (#23081471)
Yep. K2 MK7 specifically. Cheese (most) and natto are good dietary sources of K2. The better D3 supps are formulated with an optimal D3 to K2 ratio.
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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by raverbashing on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:00PM (#23081466)
I believe Vit K deficiency is less common than Vit D deficiency
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Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes by youareostriches on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:20PM (#23082395)
vitamin K deficiency is also associated with covid19 symptoms.

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0457/v1

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