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The Claim

Vitamin K helps vitamin D absorption for bone health.

The Short Version

The evidence does not show that vitamin K helps the body absorb vitamin D. What reliable sources do support is that vitamins D and K can work together in bone health through different roles: vitamin D helps regulate calcium and induces certain proteins, while vitamin K activates some of those proteins. That makes the claim directionally related to a real interaction, but wrong in its stated mechanism.

Caveats

  • No established evidence shows vitamin K increases vitamin D absorption or bioavailability.
  • The better-supported mechanism is downstream: vitamin K activates vitamin K-dependent proteins involved in bone mineralization after vitamin D has induced them.
  • Combined D+K supplementation may help some bone outcomes, but trial results are mixed and do not validate the specific absorption claim.

The Receipts

  1. Vitamin K - Health Professional Fact Sheet

    NIH Office of Dietary Supplements

  2. The combination effect of vitamin K and vitamin D on ...

    PubMed

  3. The Importance of Vitamin K and the Combination of ... - PMC

    PMC

  4. The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone ...

    PMC

  5. The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone ... (animal studies)

    PMC (specific section)

  6. Effect of combined administration of vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 on bone mineral density of the lumbar spine in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

    PubMed

  7. The effect of vitamin MK-7 on bone mineral density and microarchitecture in postmenopausal women with osteopenia

    PubMed

  8. Vitamin D and Vitamin K: Synergistic Roles and Emerging Evidence ...

    PMC - NIH

  9. Vitamin K in osteoporosis

    Health Research Authority (UK)

  10. Efficacy of vitamin K2 in the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    PMC

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Vitamin DVitamin K

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