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Science: The Great K2 Debate
Many years ago – 8?? I'm not really
sure – I started supplementing vitamin K2. I began taking it for
reasons of heart-health. However, after I started supplementing it I
discovered it had a noticeable and almost immediate effect on my oral
health. Suddenly my teeth were glossy and smooth. They felt like after a professional cleaning. 'Morning breath' was also very
noticeably lessened, absent even. After a year or so I even stopped
brushing my teeth in the morning, seeing no point to it – I don't
eat breakfast except on weekends. I do brush afterwards on days I eat
breakfast. I also brush every evening immediately before bed using a
Philips Sonicare toothbrush.
I also noticed that if I ever went much
beyond a week or so without supplementing K2 I'd be reminded by a
combination of my teeth no longer feeling smooth and glossy and a
return of “morning breath.” It wasn't bad morning breath by any
means, more of a not fresh-in-the-mouth feeling, but compared to
nothing at all, which is to say having my mouth feel pretty much the
same first thing in the morning as anytime else during the day, it
was an unmistakeable difference.
