Did you take your vitamins today? Maybe you don’t have to

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Navigating supplement offerings, in a store or online, can be overwhelming. There’s a pill or a potion for everything, from losing weight to boosting brain power. But how do you know what you need? Join Dr. Sanjay Gupta for a conversation with supplement safety expert Dr. Pieter Cohen to learn how these add-ons are policed and what to look for on the label. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We all know the internet has a lot to say, especially when it comes to medicine and health.
0:07.0	But you know, as I've been on the internet lately, it seems like supplements have become a particular fascination.
0:13.0	Top 10 supplements you should be taking.
0:15.0	Supplements I love that you may not know about and might want to try.
0:19.0	They're often touted as something close to miracle drugs.
0:22.6	Something else I take every single day is my anositol.
0:24.6	This has done incredible things for my hormone balance.
0:27.6	I also take B12 every single day as well as vitamin D.
0:29.6	A clinical evidence that supplementing with something called methyl folate
0:34.6	can be very, very effective at treating anxiety and even effective at treating depression.
0:40.6	But look, I'm sure you realize this. You've got to be careful. And keep in mind, just about
0:46.4	everyone is trying to make a buck off of you every time you're going on the internet and doing
0:50.5	a Google search for any kind of health condition. So let's talk about supplements today.
0:55.3	What can they do?
0:57.1	What can't they do?
0:58.7	What do we really know about supplements?
1:01.5	How good is the data?
1:03.2	And how can you even know for sure what you're actually buying?
1:06.9	To be honest, the answer to that last question,
1:09.4	you really kind of can't.
1:11.6	And that's because of a 1994 law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, DeShay.
1:18.2	We're going to talk more about this in the podcast, but here's an explanation of what it is from the Food and Drug Administration's YouTube channel.
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