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Don't be so sure! Sadly most doctors know very little about nutrition. My haematologist had not heard of the vitamin K/D studies. I suspect that there is a subset of MDS which is caused by malabsorption of those vitamins due to gut damage/gallbladder malfunction, which bumps up the requirements dramatically. There is some detailed information about one of the trials here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...45212610002080
Interestingly, this trial excluded patients with known malabsorption issues, and I wonder if they ran the trial again on those patients whether the response rate would actually have been higher? I responded very well to it, although I would not have been eligible for the trial.
There is a summary table here of research that has been done so far:
http://www.nbihealth.com/t-MK4research.aspx
It would be impossible to get 45mg of vitamin K through diet, however juicing green vegetables like kale might help.