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Current Research: Integrative Medicine
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CAM Therapies 2017
September 18-19, 2017 Charlotte, USA
5th International Meeting on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine & Therapies
Kristy Appelhans
Herbalife Nutrition, USA
Educational strategies to support patient safety with dietary supplement use
Seventy percent of US consumers incorporate some form of dietary supplement use into their routine nutrition/
health regimen. In fact, most dietary supplements in the US are freely accessible by consumers and these
substances are perceived to be associated with a variety of benefits. The internet has become an endless resource
for consumer information from symptom checking and self-diagnosing websites to sites which support self-
treatment via supplementation. Therefore, it is highly possible that dietary supplements are being used before
a patient seeks professional care for a health concern and/or a patient will incorporate personal supplement use
in addition to a medically recommended and supervised treatment protocol. This review will present various
consumer trends related to dietary supplement use which can help guide patient counseling to support the safe
use of supplements while under treatment.
Biography
Kristy Appelhans is the Senior Director of Global Post-Market Medical Surveillance at Herbalife Nutrition. To date, she brings nearly 20 years of experience
working in a diverse capacity within the health and fitness industry. She has completed her undergraduate education in Clinical Nutrition in 2003 and subsequently
completed her Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine in 2007. She has been in private practice since 2009. In 2016, she also completed a Masters in Science in
Regulatory Affairs. As the Head of Safety at Herbalife Nutrition, she oversees a comprehensive global post-market safety surveillance program and nutrition
safety education. She has a broad scope of expertise related to the technical, functional, and clinical aspects of consumer safety. She has been the lead author
for more than 14 peer-reviewed articles, co-authored a global industry guidance document for the collection of adverse events, and recently co-authored a book
chapter on the technical and functional aspects of adverse event collection and reporting.