How Serious Is Factor V and Vitamin K Intake?

You know how bad juicing is for you?

Well sure, you got your diet semi under control and reduced your caloric intake. That's why you lost weight and that's why your diabetes and high cholesterol went away, not because of juicing.

When you juice all that fruit, it strips away all the fiber from it. So when you drink it your body processes it immediately as a ready energy source and once you don't use that energy it goes back into storage. If instead, you eat whole fruit and veggies the fiber makes it into a "time released" energy source so your body does not store it. LINK

when you say all that fruit, its just 1 green apple and 1 orange per juice? Those aren't even super high sugar fruits like pineapples or something. Carrots have some sugar too but my issue is I can't really have strictly veggie juices bc of factor K so I try to limit my green intake. I suppose I could do just carrot,ginger,tumeric,and green apple but the thing is you need the cucumber to get the juice volume up to even 10 oz.

Everyone totally whiffed on what you were asking.

Vitamin K is important in activating different clotting factors on your blood (of which factor V is one).

For people who have abnormal clotting factors excess vitamin K can put you more at risk for developing blood clots.

I would probably stay away from it if I were you.

Eta: The vitamin K can also interact with certain anticoagulants. I'm assuming your doctor started you on some?

I would say seeing a doctor would be the wise decision. No offense, but something serious like blood clots shouldn't be left to the TD health and fitness board.

I mean I've known this for 20 years and it's never been an issue, I don't wanna go see a doctor, a specialist at that, to ask him what I should juice. Factor v isn't some rare disorder, a lot of people have it but most don't know bc it's not something they check for in your annual blood test. I was screened for it bc of my mother, all I'm curious about is if it's terrible for your if your putting 2 anti coagulants like ginger and tumeric in the juice along with a daily baby aspirin. I'm just not a big fan of taking tons of pills, my mom is on countless pills and warfarin is literally what is used to kill rats. I'm not sure I want that in my body to maintain my factor v. My mom had her issue bc of birth control they told her, I remember the doctor telling her birth control is the worst thing any woman can take moreso when they have factor v