Clotting
Vitamin K-dependent factors II/VII/IX/X, fibrin formation
Blood clotting is a tightly controlled cascade — you need it to fire fast at a wound but never inappropriately inside a vessel. Vitamin K is the load-bearing nutrient: it activates clotting factors II, VII, IX, and X (the 'K' literally stands for Koagulation), which is exactly why the drug warfarin works by blocking it. Calcium is a required cofactor at several steps of the cascade, and omega-3s gently modulate platelet aggregation. The same vitamin K that drives clotting also activates the proteins that keep calcium in bone and out of arteries — so it sits at the intersection of clotting, bone, and vascular health.
How your supplements + diet feed this pathway right now — the cofactors driving it, where the gaps are, and your own lab readouts.
The load-bearing nutrients — if these are deficient, this pathway slows down. Click any to see daily targets, food sources, and supplements that supply it.
Nutrients that contribute to this pathway but aren’t the single load-bearing inputs.
Lab markers that report on how well this pathway is running. When one of these is out of range, this pathway is often where the upstream issue lives.
Save a lab session under My Journey → Biomarkers to see your own values for these.
Pathways that share a load-bearing cofactor with this one.