A recently published Canadian study has discovered the cellular process that allows vitamin K to protect against diabetes. The discovery opens up new ways to treat and prevent this growing epidemic that affects 415 million people worldwide.
Vitamin K helps with gamma-carboxylation, one of the countless biochemical processes that our cells carry out, turning one substance into another for various functions in the body. Gamma-carboxylation is important to many bodily functions; for example, it produces proteins used in bone formation and blood coagulation.
