If you think about reinventing yourself, you probably focus on changing your hairstyle or embarking on a new career. But on the inside, your body is always getting a fresh start. It continually renews itself, day in and day out.

The bones that give you stability, which seem solid and fixed, are actively broken down and rebuilt constantly as part of your body’s normal processes. Your old bones are broken down as your body pulls calcium or other nutrients from them when needed (this natural process is called resorption). Meanwhile, the micronutrients from your diet come in to replenish what’s been lost.*

To support the body’s ability to rebuild solid, strong bones, your body need to maintain the right balance of all the nutrients needed to complete the remodeling process. So, regular intake of those nutrients is vital for a steady supply.*

You need plenty of calcium, magnesium, vitamin D, and vitamin K. Regular use of USANA’s Vitamin K2 supplement will help supply plenty of this essential nutrient to help ensure calcium goes where it’s needed to form and maintain strong, resilient bones.*

Here’s how it works.

A number of proteins that support proper bone remodeling are dependent on vitamin K2. One of the main proteins is osteocalcin, which helps establish a matrix, or organizing structure, for bone.

Initially, osteocalcin is released by vitamin D3. But it requires vitamin K2 to be activated. (This is why it’s also important to get enough dietary vitamin K2 if you supplement vitamin D.) The activation process is critical, because it makes the calcium “stick” to and be incorporated into the bone.*

That’s not the only way vitamin K2 offers bone-supporting benefits. It also helps turn some genes on or off that regulate bone remodeling. This action helps keep the resorption process balanced—so, ideally, your body won’t break down and absorb more bone than is replaced.*

Constantly maintaining that balance is important at any age to help preserve healthy bone density. But it becomes a bigger concern for women as they age. After menopause, women tend to lose more bone density as a result of the changes in hormone levels. Vitamin K2 may be able to help offset some (but not all) of that bone loss over time.*

A three-year study looked at the effects when healthy postmenopausal women consumed 180 mcg of the MK-7 form of vitamin K2 daily. Results showed that supplementation significantly improved vitamin K status and better maintained bone density in the spine and neck (changes weren’t seen in the hip). Healthy bone strength was also retained.*

On the other hand, another study found that women over 70 who had high levels of osteocalcin that hadn’t been activated by vitamin K2 (called undercarboxylated osteocalcin) were less likely to maintain healthy bone density. This illustrates the importance of vitamin K2 to maintaining your skeletal stability as you age.*

Building up your bone strength is important for staying active throughout your lifetime. If you don’t have enough vitamin K2 in your body, calcium won’t deposit into your bone as efficiently to retain healthy bone density. So, supplementing your vitamin K2 can help maintain strong bones, when used as part of a healthy lifestyle.*

Vitamin K2 may also benefit your oral health to help keep you smiling. By maintaining proper bone balance, USANA’s Vitamin K2 supports the health of your jaw and teeth.*

The bone-building benefits of Vitamin K2 are even greater when you also supplement calcium along with other important bone minerals. That makes Vitamin K2 an excellent companion to USANA MagneCal D and/or Vitamin D.*

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