Mapping The Nutraceuticals World

Nutraceuticals World

This podcast focuses on the B2B nutritional products marketplace, delivering analysis and insight on trends, challenges, and opportunities.

  1. 03/22/2024

    NAD+ and Aging: ChromaDex CEO Rob Fried Discusses Science, Industry Challenges and Future Expectations

    With rising interest in healthy aging, more people are looking for clinical research that supports products designed to help them live healthier for longer. The coenzyme NAD+ is essential to the body's metabolic processes, but it declines with age, so supplements that boost NAD+ have garnered considerable attention in the scientific community. ChromaDex, which is publicly traded on the Nasdaq, offers the consumer product brand Tru Niagen. This patented form of nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a precursor to NAD+. Tru Niagen sales totaled nearly $70 million last year, accounting for the majority of the company’s $83.6 million in revenue. In this interview, ChromaDex CEO Rob Fried discusses NAD+ and emerging research, the company’s evolution to become a consumer-focused nutraceutical, the future of aging, critical challenges in today’s dietary supplement market, and more. Spoiler alert: Fried is calling for more accountability and collaboration to enforce quality standards and establish greater trust with consumers. In addition to being CEO of ChromaDex since 2017 and the founder of Tru Niagen, Fried is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning motion picture producer. Before his combined 7 years in the health industry, he held senior roles at entertainment companies Savoy Pictures (CEO), Columbia Pictures (Executive Vice President) and Fried Films (founder, CEO). He has also founded and served as CEO of internet companies Feeln (now Hallmark Movies Now), WHN (a leading e-commerce service provider), and Healthspan Research LLC.  In 2017, Fried led ChromaDex’s acquisition of Healthspan Research LLC, a consumer company offering Tru Niagen products, and raised funds with Horizon Ventures to offer Tru Niagen direct-to-consumer. He holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

    41 min
  2. 02/29/2024

    What Does FDA’s Reorganization Mean for the Dietary Supplement Industry?

    Loren Israelsen from the United Natural Products Alliance shares insight on how agency priorities might change and how businesses can prepare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is in process of a massive reorganization designed to streamline operations within a unified Human Foods Program (HFP) to largely replace the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). What does this mean for the dietary supplement industry? In the proposal, now under review at Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs (ODSP) will report to a newly created “Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, and Innovation,” (OFCSDSI), which FDA said “will work to modernize and strengthen oversight of food chemical safety, advance dietary supplement safety, and enable the Human Foods Program to support and effectively regulate food ingredient innovation.” As the agency’s first Deputy Commissioner of Human Foods, Jim Jones is a 30-year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a deep background in chemical safety. Jones and his staff met last December with several major trade associations representing the supplements industry, including Loren Israelsen, founder and president of the United Natural Products Alliance. I talked with Loren recently about FDA’s restructuring and how priorities might change under an overhauled Human Foods Program with new leadership. — Sean Moloughney, Editor, Nutraceuticals World, nutraceuticals@rodmanmedia.com

    27 min

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This podcast focuses on the B2B nutritional products marketplace, delivering analysis and insight on trends, challenges, and opportunities.