10/20/2025
"Vitamin K is currently given to newborn babies. It started back in the mid-1900s when women were being knocked out during pregnancy or during delivery. They would put them under and so they couldn't push. And so babies had to be basically pulled out of the uterus with forceps and with suction. That has a negative effect on the brain, on the head and the skull and the brain. And so they were developing this vitamin K deficiency bleeding as a result of the trauma that they were experiencing during delivery.
So they did some studies and they found out that babies were born with about 50% less vitamin K in their systems than adults. And they decided that this was a design flaw. And so they started giving babies oral vitamin K. The drops, oral drops and then in the 1970s, so the dosage on the oral drops was really high and they were getting a lot of problems from that. So they switched over to the injectable form in the 1970s. And they have been giving the injectable form to babies since the 1970s. Pretty much every baby that's born in the United States, unless the parents are aware and refuse.
So the problem is that there's a reason, it's not a design flaw. There's a reason why vitamin K is low in the newborn. The babies when they're delivered they're going through the vaginal birth canal. In all babies prior to delivery, their guts are sterile. So they don't have the good probiotics, the good beneficial bacteria that they get from going through the birth canal. When they pass through the birth canal, their guts are colonized with the good gut bacteria that helps their microbiome.
And that good gut bacteria helps to produce vitamin K. And it increases slowly from birth up until day eight. And that is supposed to be that way. It's supposed to happen that way. And the reason is, like I said before about how vitamin K really regulates. It's very tightly. The range for vitamin K has to be very tightly regulated in the body or it does disrupt that cellular division. So there were problems associated with this that were recognized and some concerns about the injectable vitamin K leading to leukemia, increased rates of leukemia. And for that reason, there are several countries that stopped getting the injectable version of vitamin K and they went back to the drops. The United States is not one of those countries. They continue to promote and utilize solely the injectable form of vitamin K. So that's how it started. "
So in the United States, there are two forms of vitamin K injection. The first one is Hospira. And Hospira carries a black box warning. Well, they both do carry a black box warning, which is the strongest warning that the FDA issues regarding any kind of medical device or medication or injectable substance. So they do have black box warning because of problems, particularly with Hospira. It has 9 milligrams of benzyl alcohol. And that benzyl alcohol damages the liver. It is a contributing factor to the onset of jaundice in babies after a couple of days following birth. It contributes to something called gasping syndrome, which because of alcohol, alcohol as a central nervous system depressant, and especially in preterm low birth weight babies, they can develop this gasping syndrome because of the depression of their respiration from the alcohol.
So because of those issues, most hospitals in the United States now use Amphistar. And Amphastar is in a pink box. The second ingredient is 10 milligrams of polysorbate 80. It doesn't have any benzyl alcohol. It doesn't have any preservatives in it. So the benzoyl alcohol was used as a preservative. So a lot of people will talk to their doctor about that, and the doctors will say, well, we have a form that doesn't have a preservative. It's preservative free, but that doesn't mean it's safe. The second ingredient is polysorbate 80, and there's 10 milligrams of it. Polysorbate 80 is used in research, studies in cancer research, particularly for brain cancer drugs, because they compare it with the drug. And because polysorbate 80 opens up the blood brain barrier, then it helps the drug get into the brain. It does the same thing when you give it to babies. It opens up the blood brain barrier.
And newborn babies already have permeable blood brain barrier. So when you give polysorbate 80, 10 milligrams of it, it will open up the blood brain barrier. And then right after that, they come along and they give the hepatitis B vaccine with 250 micrograms of aluminum. And the aluminum has access to the brain immediately because of the polysorbate 80 in the vitamin K shot. I do want to say that a lot of people think that the vitamin K shot has a lot of aluminum in it. It doesn't. Neither one of the forms that are given in the United States have high amounts of aluminum. The Hospira vial says on it, it says no more than 100 micrograms per liter of aluminum in that shot. So the shot itself is 0.5ml. So that's one half of a milliliter. There are a thousand milliliters in one liter. So you would have to give, you would have to inject two and a half liters of the vitamin K shot to get the same amount of aluminum that's in the hepatitis B vaccine. Aluminum is not the problem in the vitamin K shot shot. It's the polysorbate 80.
So just another issue with polysorbate 80. In 2016, the American Academy of Pediatricians, one of the pediatric associations, they issued a statement of concern about Gardasil because the Gardasil injections at that time contained 50 micrograms of polysorbate 80. And there is concern about polysorbate 80 causing premature ovarian failure. It's used in clinical studies to induce infertility. So when you inject the vitamin K shot, The Amphistar has 10 milligrams. So they were concerned about 50 micrograms of polysorbate 80. 10 milligrams is 200 times the amount of 50 micrograms. So that raises the question, is the vitamin K shot a factor in the infertility problems that we're having in young people today?
Well, so first of all, let's just talk about the concern with vitamin K and why they give it is for
vitamin K deficiency bleeding. And that affects just over 5 out of 100,000 babies per year. So that breaks down to 1 in 20,000. And it's much more likely to affect preemies, low birth weight babies. It's also much more likely to affect babies who are born to mothers who have epilepsy or seizure disorders and who are taking anti seizure medications. Vitamin K deficiency bleeding generally happens because the liver is taxed and that's not known prior. So not vitamin K deficiency bleeding. Yes, that vitamin K deficiency bleeding. It affects babies whose livers are damaged. So you have to kind of weigh, is my baby really at risk? You know, am I taking seizure, anti seizure medications that would elevate the risk if you're not. And if your baby is full term and born vaginally, there's really very little risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding.
There are some studies for those who have, who have concerns about that, ways you can naturally raise Vitamin K if you're breastfeeding. Oh, that's the other thing is this generally affects breastfed babies because formula is supplemented with very high amounts of vitamin K, unnaturally high amounts of ounces, which, you know, breast is always best. So if you are breastfeeding, then one way that you can help your baby get vitamin K after birth is by eating a lot of dark green leafy vegetables. Because vitamin K is high in things like spinach and kale and dark greens.
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