Sarah Gonzalez

Sarah Gonzalez appears in Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work? as the Planet Money host who frames the investigation into why supplements thrive despite weak evidence for healthy consumers. With Jane Black, she uses the practical question of whether the show could make a branded supplement to expose Recurring Supplement Commerce, Supplement Structure Function Claims, and Dietary Supplement Regulation.

Her role in the wiki is source framing rather than expert testimony. The episode’s reporting gains force because the hosts test the supplement market from the buyer-seller interface: product form, flavor, active ingredients, label language, manufacturing minimums, and the final decision not to sell a product.

Connections

• Planet Money and NPR - show and network context.
• Jane Black - reporting partner in the source.
• Frank Cantone - manufacturing voice interviewed during the attempted product design.
• Dietary Supplement Regulation - regulatory frame the episode builds toward.