The vitamin helps create three substances crucial to bone health: carboxylase, osteocalcin, and matrix Gla protein (MGP). Carboxylase is an enzyme required to create proteins involved in bone ...

"Acetyl-CoA carboxylase can drive the balance between storing lipids versus breaking down those lipids and feeding them into the citric acid cycle for energy," said Thaxton. "If ACC is flipped 'on ...