Vitamin K
Vitamin K is one of those lesser known nutrients that doesn’t get the same amount of attention as vitamins C and D. You might know vitamin K as the one that is given to newborns in hospital to help with blood clotting, and indeed this is one of vitamin K’s many important functions. There are a group of proteins in the body called Vitamin-K dependent proteins and coagulation factors (involved in blood clotting) are just some of these. Vitamin K is a family of small, fat-solubl