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People taking the blood thinning medication warfarin may need to moderate vitamin K levels in their diets. Vitamin K may interfere with the effectiveness of warfarin.
Vitamin K, which is in some foods, has an important role in blood clotting, and how warfarin works.
The liver uses vitamin K to produce clotting factors, which are cells that help to control bleeding and enable blood clots to form.
Warfarin disrupts this clotting process by inhibiting an enzyme in the liver that uses vitamin K to form clotting factors.
Warfarin can reduce the chances of a dangerous blood clot forming by increasing the time it takes for the liver to produce clotting factors.
The American Heart Association (AHA) suggest that eating vitamin K-rich foods may counteract the effects of warfarin, and lower the prothrombin time. This is the time it takes for a blood clot to form.
The AHA’a list of 19 foods high in vitamin K includes: