Aspirin Reduces Death / Complications From GI Bleeding

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Aspirin is commonly bashed by modern medicine as a somewhat useful drug that is severely handicapped by its side effects such as bleeding in the GI tract or brain.
Well, guess what - aspirin actually protects against mortality and complications caused by GI bleeding. On the other hand, common anti-coagulants such as warfarin make the situation worse. So, it looks like the one major drawback that severely limits aspirin use in clinical practice and general use may turn out to be untrue.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25732717

"...RESULTS: Of 717 patients with NVUGIB, 56 % (402) were taking at least one antithrombotic agent. Seventy-eight (11 %) patients died in hospital, and 310 (43 %) had severe bleeding (BP < 90 mmHg, HR > 120 b/min, Hb < 7 g/dL on presentation, or transfusion of >3 units). On multivariate analysis, being on aspirin was protective against in-hospital mortality [OR 0.26 (0.13-0.53)], rebleeding [OR 0.31 (0.17-0.59)], and predictive of a shorter hospital stay (coefficient = -4.2 days; 95 % CI -8.7, 0.3). Similarly, being on nonaspirin antiplatelets was protective against in-hospital mortality (P = 0.03). However, being on anticoagulants was predictive of in-hospital complications [OR 2.0 (1.20-3.35)] and severe bleeding [OR 1.69 (1.02-2.82)]. Compared to those not taking any antithrombotics, patients who bled on aspirin were less likely to die in hospital of uncontrolled gastrointestinal bleeding (3.6 vs 0 %, P ≤ 0.01) and systemic cancer (4.9 vs 0 %, P ≤ 0.002), but equally likely to die of cardiovascular/thromboembolic disease, sepsis, and multiorgan failure.
CONCLUSION: Patients who present with NVUGIB on aspirin had reduced in-hospital mortality and fewer adverse outcomes, while those on anticoagulants had increased in-hospital complications.
 

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how would those bleeding side effects occur? Is it because people are uneducated in using it properly? How does a Peatarian avoid those side effects? I have read the aspirin article, but that was a long time ago!
 

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From the study...

"However, those who were on aspirin only had lower in-hospital mortality despite being older and having more co-morbidities than patients in the control group. This is even more remarkable given that older age and the presence of co-morbidities are known independent predictors of adverse outcome in UGIB"
 

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BobbyDukes said:
how would those bleeding side effects occur? Is it because people are uneducated in using it properly? How does a Peatarian avoid those side effects? I have read the aspirin article, but that was a long time ago!

Aspirin is known to deplete vitamin K2. K2 is involved is the regulation of blood thinning. It seems like when blood becomes "too thin", you start to bleed too easily. So you would need to supplement, unless you're taking so little aspirin that the diet provides enough K2.
 

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So then how much k2, objectively, is necessary to permit supplemental aspirin in the range of 500-3000mg per day spread out with smaller dosages? Is a single 100mcg k2 cap enough or should it be dosed frequently? Perhaps always pair aspirin with vit k? Is there any sort of physiological upper limit to vit k intake?
 
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So then how much k2, objectively, is necessary to permit supplemental aspirin in the range of 500-3000mg per day spread out with smaller dosages? Is a single 100mcg k2 cap enough or should it be dosed frequently? Perhaps always pair aspirin with vit k? Is there any sort of physiological upper limit to vit k intake?

Peat said 1mg K2 for every 325mg aspirin. So, a capsule of Carlson (5mg) a few time a week should cover most people taking aspirin for prevention. For people taking it for established conditions I guess taking the capsule every day won't hurt and vitamin K2 also has pro-health effects of it own in higher doses.
 

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Peat said 1mg K2 for every 325mg aspirin. So, a capsule of Carlson (5mg) a few time a week should cover most people taking aspirin for prevention. For people taking it for established conditions I guess taking the capsule every day won't hurt and vitamin K2 also has pro-health effects of it own in higher doses.

Wait 1mg?!?! Sorry did I read that right? Where do you find k2 in such high dosages??? My bottle here is 100mcg per cap... I take about 1g of aspirin each day and am undercutting the k very strongly.... Now I am quite concerned that I am suffering thin blood or maybe ulcers....
 
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Mk7 k2 from natto persists in the body for many days. If you take this form perhaps you don't need as much?
 

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Wait 1mg?!?! Sorry did I read that right? Where do you find k2 in such high dosages??? My bottle here is 100mcg per cap... I take about 1g of aspirin each day and am undercutting the k very strongly.... Now I am quite concerned that I am suffering thin blood or maybe ulcers....
Relentless Improvement, which I bought a month ago, comes in 15mg pills.

Edit: If you take that much, you should probably get at least some Vit E supplementation. I take 400 IU, but I don't think have a need for a lot of it.
 
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Wait 1mg?!?! Sorry did I read that right? Where do you find k2 in such high dosages??? My bottle here is 100mcg per cap... I take about 1g of aspirin each day and am undercutting the k very strongly.... Now I am quite concerned that I am suffering thin blood or maybe ulcers....

Most vitamin K2 (MK-4) supplements come in mg doses. Thorne, VRP, Relentless Improvement, etc all come in 15mg pills. The clinical trials in Japan all used 45mg doses daily, so I suspect the vendors selling K2 (MK-4) are trying to match that data. I don't know what dose of MK-7 corresponds to a given dose of K1 or K2 (MK-4).
 

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Aren't the effects of thinning the blood from aspirin different from the K2 pathways?
 

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Most vitamin K2 (MK-4) supplements come in mg doses. Thorne, VRP, Relentless Improvement, etc all come in 15mg pills. The clinical trials in Japan all used 45mg doses daily, so I suspect the vendors selling K2 (MK-4) are trying to match that data. I don't know what dose of MK-7 corresponds to a given dose of K1 or K2 (MK-4).

I simply purchased the NOW brand from the health food shop in my town. I thought taking 2 of the pills would be more than enough, but turns out that was a mere 200mcg and could be contributing to my depersonalization and stomach ache symptoms which are likely thin blood and ulcers.... oh dear ://
 

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from: The Red Sox (USDA) Diet, Lymphoma, and Vascular Malformations - Perfect Health Diet | Perfect Health Diet

In infants, vitamin K deficiency produces vascular malformations. [13]

Vitamin K deficiency is also known to produce hemorrhage. In fact, a leading cause of hemorrhagic stroke is vitamin K deficiency:

  • In one study of the causes of hemorrhagic stroke, 20 of 24 victims had vascular malformations, and 5 cases had clinical vitamin K deficiency [14]. (All 24 were probably subclinically vitamin K deficient.)
  • A Chinese study of hemorrhagic strokes in children concluded, “Vitamin K deficiency was a major etiology in 72 of 94 hemorrhagic strokes (76.6%).” [15]
What about the calcification observed in many vascular malformations? Vascular calcification is the universal signal of vitamin K2 deficiency. Interestingly, vitamin K2 deficiency specifically leads to damage to the elastin matrix:

[M]ineralization induced by warfarin was observed limited to elastic fibers … In a recent paper, dermal elastic fiber calcification has been extensively described in patients affected by coagulation disorders due to a genetic defect in vitamin K recycling … [16]

Warfarin is a drug that interferes with vitamin K2. It seems clear that a loss of K2 function, due to deficiency, genetic defects, or warfarin, leads to specific damage to the elastin matrix.
 

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In infants, vitamin K deficiency produces vascular malformations. [13]

Vitamin K deficiency is also known to produce hemorrhage. In fact, a leading cause of hemorrhagic stroke is vitamin K deficiency:

  • In one study of the causes of hemorrhagic stroke, 20 of 24 victims had vascular malformations, and 5 cases had clinical vitamin K deficiency [14]. (All 24 were probably subclinically vitamin K deficient.)
  • A Chinese study of hemorrhagic strokes in children concluded, “Vitamin K deficiency was a major etiology in 72 of 94 hemorrhagic strokes (76.6%).” [15]
What about the calcification observed in many vascular malformations? Vascular calcification is the universal signal of vitamin K2 deficiency. Interestingly, vitamin K2 deficiency specifically leads to damage to the elastin matrix:

Very nice find.
 

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I was researching this further.

Snce vitamin e is a vitamin k antagonist, that you should have some caution with aspirin if you take vitamin e, as it will deplete your vitamin k and thus thin your blood.

I spent a fair bit of time today researching salicylates, which many plants naturally have and is a component of aspirin. They are involved in thinning the blood.

http://www.pkdiet.com/pdf/oxalate lists.pdf
Salicylate Foods – sensitivity, intolerances and food list. | ATP Science

Thus from what I gather consuming foods rich in them, such as coconut oil, ginger, cayene, cherries, cranberries, dates, etc. Would equate taking aspirins, at least in the thinning blood effect.

If your blood is too thin from these it's equal to taking many anti-coagulants, which would increase the risk of bleeding, because your body has interference with its ability to clot.


Therefore for the standard person aspirin would be beneficial (since most people don't tend to have excessive blood thinning foods), but if youare consuming high amounts of salicylates via foods, vitamin e and not enough vitamin k, it would cause harm.

It was difficult to verify coconut oil, but everywhere i looked touted it was one of the highest salicylate containing foods. One comment on an article stated that deodorized coconut oil had minimal amounts, but I couldn't verify the data either way.
 
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Peat said 1mg K2 for every 325mg aspirin. So, a capsule of Carlson (5mg) a few time a week should cover most people taking aspirin for prevention. For people taking it for established conditions I guess taking the capsule every day won't hurt and vitamin K2 also has pro-health effects of it own in higher doses.
I have a neuropathy that involves conduction block in motor muscles(MMN). I'm guessing, since, even though they don't have any idea yet what causes it, yet is billed autoimmune, that the aspirin could greatly reduce any associated swelling?
 
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I was researching this further.

Snce vitamin e is a vitamin k antagonist, that you should have some caution with aspirin if you take vitamin e, as it will deplete your vitamin k and thus thin your blood.

I spent a fair bit of time today researching salicylates, which many plants naturally have and is a component of aspirin. They are involved in thinning the blood.

http://www.pkdiet.com/pdf/oxalate lists.pdf
Salicylate Foods – sensitivity, intolerances and food list. | ATP Science

Thus from what I gather consuming foods rich in them, such as coconut oil, ginger, cayene, cherries, cranberries, dates, etc. Would equate taking aspirins, at least in the thinning blood effect.

If your blood is too thin from these it's equal to taking many anti-coagulants, which would increase the risk of bleeding, because your body has interference with its ability to clot.


Therefore for the standard person aspirin would be beneficial (since most people don't tend to have excessive blood thinning foods), but if youare consuming high amounts of salicylates via foods, vitamin e and not enough vitamin k, it would cause harm.

It was difficult to verify coconut oil, but everywhere i looked touted it was one of the highest salicylate containing foods. One comment on an article stated that deodorized coconut oil had minimal amounts, but I couldn't verify the data either way.
Ok. I read those two articles and now I'm confused. In this thread we're being encouraged to use aspirin, with k for inflammation, among other things. The second article said salicylates are in most plants. (Maybe this is why high vegetable consumption helps people overcome terrible neurological diseases, s.a. the Wahl's Protocol and MS), but the article talks also about sensitivity and resultant inflammation to salicylates....so confusing. Please help!
 
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Ok. I read those two articles and now I'm confused. In this thread we're being encouraged to use aspirin, with k for inflammation, among other things. The second article said salicylates are in most plants. (Maybe this is why high vegetable consumption helps people overcome terrible neurological diseases, s.a. the Wahl's Protocol and MS), but the article talks also about sensitivity and resultant inflammation to salicylates....so confusing. Please help!

Higher doses niacinamide can also dramatically lower inflammation and don't seem to have the same side effects as aspirin. I would still use aspirin myself if I had to, but niacinamide and vitamin K2, as well as vitamin D and cascara can probably achieve the same with less side effects.
Just my 2c.
 

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