The uncoordinated use of the metric system by different scientific and engineering disciplines, particularly in the late 19th century, resulted in different choices of base units even though all were based on the same definitions of the metre and the kilogram.
Traditionally, patients taking warfarin have been advised to avoid vitamin K to prevent excess clotting. Surprisingly, scientists have now discovered that regular consumption of a modest amount of vitamin K actually helps stabilize the anticoagulant effects of warfarin. Vitamin K intake may thus help individuals using warfarin achieve the therapeutic benefits of the drugâwithout danger of clots or bleeding.
Answers. Best Answer: Warfarin is a type of drug that acts on your intrinsic coagulation pathway (in your liver). Besides cleaning out your blood, the liver also creates several clotting factors that help your platelets stick together to form clots. One of these factors is Vitamin K. It itself does not stick to platelets. Rather, it helps the other factors transform and bind together. Long story short, warfarin keeps your liver from making vitamin K and your gut from absorbing it. How long it stays depends on your liver's ability to make vitamin K to use up the remaining warfarin.