Vitamin K2, Vitamin D3, & Black Health: Why One-Size-Fits-All Supplement Advice Doesn’t Work

If you’ve spent any time online lately, you’ve probably seen someone promoting vitamin K2—usually alongside vitamin D3. Influencers call it the “missing link” for bone health.

Supplement companies say it protects your heart. Some even claim everyone should be taking it.

But here’s the problem: Most supplement advice isn’t designed with Black bodies in mind. And if you’ve read my book Better Black Health , you already know one of my core messages: what works for the majority population doesn’t automatically work for us.

That’s where precision medicine comes in. Each episode of Better Black Health is sponsored by GNetX Sequence Multivitamins for African Americans and the Better Black Health book , which addresses many of the healthcare disparities faced by the Black community.