the influence of vitamin K on the diet-microbiome-health axis

In a recent narrative review published in the Nutrients Journal, researchers explored how Vitamin K dietary supplementation could promote healthy aging.

Study: Vitamin K and Hallmarks of Aging: Focus on Diet and Gut Microbiome.  Image Credit: ratmaner/Shutterstock.comStudy: Vitamin K and Hallmarks of Aging: Focus on Diet and Gut Microbiome. Image Credit: ratmaner/Shutterstock.com

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Dietary vitamin K is a diet-microbiome-health axis modulator; thus, researchers are pursuing evidence of how it impacts the gut microbial composition and metabolic activities implicated with host health outcomes, especially in the older adults of the general population.

People aged 60 years outnumbered children below five years in 2020, and this aged population will nearly double to 2.1 million, outnumbering young people

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Student eating habits could lead to illness: study

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Do You Absolutely Hate Broccoli?

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