If you KNOW you’re going to have a wound the size of a dinner plate, probably start BEFORE it happens – don’t wait until the shark gnaws off your leg to buy a tourniquet.
This plan outline floods the postpartum body with vitamin K1 from cooked greens (ideally lambsquarter) + fat to rapidly clot the raw placental wound, K2 from natto/cheese to recycle K1 and strengthen collagen, arginine-dense poultry + liver and bone broth to supply the amino acids and cofactors (iron, copper, zinc) that knit tissue, while nitrate-rich beet/arugula/celery and garlic/fermented foods keep micro-circulation open and glutathione high, all under the umbrella of 100 g+ complete protein daily, NAC, liposomal vitamin C and fat-soluble vitamins—reducing bleeding time, speeding wound closure, and giving mom and baby the nutrient surplus they need for all the hard postpartum work.
This should start before delivery. One of the other benefit of starting this prior to baby delivery is that you’ll have a massive reserve of Vitamin K, and you won’t feel the need to be pressured about the Vitamin K shot either – bonus. (Note: personally, if you DO feel the need to supplement your newborn’s Vitamin K, ask to give them oral Vitamin K – there’s no need to shoot up a baby with aluminum-containing shots minutes after birth!)
This study solved another question for me that I had always had: why do females almost always seem more drawn to eating greens, versus males who could care less about that type of food? Marketing certainly comes into play here, with the modern blitz to get people to eat cheap high-profit foods, But I also believe it is because women have a natural instinct to eat green leafy foods because biologically they instinctively know that they are going to need excessive stores of K1 to heal at dinner-plate sized wound – whereas most males will never experience a wound of that proportion (in fact, I would go so far as to say that the only reason women can survive that size of a wound is because they are made to survive it; A male or female experiencing a dinner-plate-sized wound in pretty much any other context is almost certainly fatal).
Grocery/Amazon List – Fold, Tape, Hand to Husband
| Ingredient | Why we care | How to eat it |
| Lambsquarter, boiled (1 cup, 2x daily) | 889 µg K1 / cup → clotting starter pack | Sauté in butter and cover in olive oil for greatly-increased absorption. Spinach and kale work too, but they’re not as loaded. |
| Poultry (chicken / turkey) | Arginine king; 2.5 g per 100 g—Bob the Clot Builder’s favorite brick | Roast whole bird, eat the skin, lick the pan, etc. |
| Liver | Comes pre-loaded with Vitamins A-Z and the meaning of life | 2 oz daily; hide in onions or eat diced you hate yourself |
| Munster / Jarlsberg / Aged Gouda / Edam / Camembert (in that order) | Fat + K2 = collagen booster pack | 1 oz each, taste-test each week—call it “Netflix & Cheese” |
| Celery | Nitric-oxide celery sticks—crunchy green Viagra for micro-circulation | Dip in liver pâté to get TWO disgusting options out of the way! |
| Bone Broth | Glycine + proline = collagen zip-ties | Mug before bed, pretend it’s hot cocoa for adults |
| Raw Garlic or Lacto-Fermented | Sulfur + copper + probiotic sass | ~1 clove, make sure your spouse gets some too… |
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| Natto | 1 Tbsp = 150 µg MK-7; smells like gym socks, works like magic | Cold with a dab of mustard; or however you can get it down. No pun intended: it grows on you! |
| Beet Juice and/or Arugula | Extra Nitric Oxicd + betaine for methylation | 4 oz beet shot + fistful of arugula = Red Rocket Salad |
| Red Onion / Capers | Quercetin to keep inflammation from throwing a rave | Slice onion paper-thin; capers go on literally everything |
| Turmeric + Black Pepper | Curcumin bouncer kicks IL-6 out the door | ½ tsp in broth, add pepper for 20× uptake |
| Sauerkraut Juice | Turns excess K1 into storage-grade K2 for later | Shot glass at 10 a.m.; pretend it’s kombucha |
| NAC | 600 mg empty stomach → glutathione refuel | Pork and pork rinds are highest food source of NAC |
| Liposomal Vitamin C | Collagen zip-ties need zip-tie pliers | 1,000 mg 2× daily; chase with water, not juice (sugar!) |
| Sunshine / Lanolin D3 | Hormonal director yelling “cut” so the clot scene wraps on time | 20 min noon sun or 2,000 IU drops |
| Astaxanthin / Resveratrol | Antioxidant bodyguards so free radicals don’t photobomb the wound | 4 mg astaxanthin + 100 mg trans-resveratrol with fat |
Do-NOT List (or “How to Un-Stack”)
- CAFO beef & fish-oil megadoses: Omega-6 overload + EPA/DHA >3 g = platelet holiday.
- Any seed/plant oils (except olive, avocado, or coconut)
- Sugar >30 g: Yeast and inflammation RSVP “yes.”
- Waiting until after the bleeding starts to buy groceries: Congratulations, you’re now behind the eight-ball.
🎯 TL;DR Cheat Card (screenshot this)
✅ Greens + fat daily
✅ Cheese option daily
✅ Liver cube 2 oz / day
✅ Poultry + bone broth
✅ Beet shot + garlic clove
✅ NAC + liposomal C (or just Vitamin C) on empty stomach
❌ Sugar, CAFO meat, fish-oil megadoses, seed oils
❌ Procrastination
