Resources for Your Patients

Your patients are going to have questions. We make it easy to find the answers to their nutritional needs.

How to Read a Vitamin Pack

How to Read a Vitamin Label

The Company We Keep

Nature Made has developed long term relationships with leading healthcare professional groups and industry organizations with the goal of providing the practitioner and consumers with science-based information on the nutritional products that we market.

Healthcare Professional Groups

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

American Pharmacists Association (APhA)

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND)

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

American Nurse Practitioner Foundation (ANPF)

American Society of Nutrition (ASN)

National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF)

Industry Organizations 

American Society of Nutrition (ASN)

National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF)

Industry Regulation

The following resources provide information on dietary supplement regulation.

Healthcare Professional Groups

U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA)

cGMPs for Dietary Supplements

Industry Research

We know you like to stay abreast of emerging science on nutrition, as we do. Below are select research studies about vitamins, minerals and/or supplements. Some of these studies are available to view in their full text, while others are only available in abstract form.

- McKenney JM, Jenks BH, Shneyvas E, Brooks JR, Shenoy SF, Cook CM, & Maki, KC. (2013). A softgel dietary supplement containing esterified plant sterols and stanols improves the blood lipid profile of adults with primary hypercholesterolemia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled replication study. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 114(2):244-249. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2013.09.023
 
- Maki KC, Lawless AL, Reeves MS, Dicklin MR, Jenks BH, Shneyvas E, & Brooks JR. (2012). Lipid-altering effects of a dietary supplement tablet containing free plant sterols and stanols in men and women with primary hypercholesterolaemia: a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 63(4):476-82. doi: 10.3109/09637486.2011.636345
 
- Maki KC, Lawless AL, Reeves MS, Kelley KM, Dicklin MR, Jenks BH, Shneyvas E, & Brooks JR. (2013). Lipid effects of a dietary supplement softgel capsule containing plant sterols/stanols in primary hypercholesterolemia. Nutrition, 29(1):96-100. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2012.05.002