Empowered Patient Podcast

Paul Coates PhD, Director of the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) talks about why dietary supplements are considered food by the FDA and what that means for consumers, changing attitudes about the effectiveness of supplements including botanicals, and opportunities for nutrigenomics where research is focusing on identifying interaction between nutrients and the genome. @NIH_ODS Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know Full List of Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets Dietary Supplement Label Database Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health