Vitamin deficiency cannot be called a serious disease. Vitamin deficiency cannot be called a serious disease. But its consequences are so serious that you need to take charge of yourself and start monitoring the doses of vitamins entering your body.
Vitamin K (phylloquinone) is a dietary vitamin K. Dietary fat enhances its absorption. Vitamin K supplements are added to infant formulas. Vitamin K is a group of compounds (menaquinones) synthesized by intestinal bacteria; the amount synthesized does not satisfy the need for vitamin K.
Vitamin E is a group of compounds (tocopherols and tocotrienols) that have similar biological effects. The most biologically active is alpha-tocopherol, but beta-, gamma-, and theta-tocopherols, four tocotrienols, and several stereoisomers also have important biological activity.
