Why do we need dietary supplements?

Our body uses what we ingest as fuel. A healthy diet is the foundation of a healthy body and it can in no way be matched by dietary supplements.

However, it is now difficult to find all the necessary nutrients there. Intensive farming, irrigation, or the massive use of pesticides deplete the soil of crops and consequently, the foods also lose nutrients. Added to this are our highly processed modern diet and our cooking methods that influence the nutrient content.

Due to our new lifestyles and consumption habits, our body needs a huge amount of essential nutrients. Such an amount cannot be provided by diet alone, even with a strict and optimal regimen.

Natural dietary supplements help to compensate for the most effective deficiencies and meet additional needs. Whether you are healthy or not, there are a number of nutritional supplements that almost everyone can benefit from. We explain everything in this article!

To function properly and stay healthy, the body needs to receive all essential nutrients. These energy needs are met by the foods we consume. They contain proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals essential for the proper functioning of our body.

Nutrients are all the food substances that the body absorbs and uses to function. Food becomes nutrients through the action of digestive juices. They are distributed at the intestinal barrier and transported in the bloodstream to nourish the entire body.

Nutrients are divided into two categories: macronutrients and micronutrients.

• The macronutrients are proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. They make up the bulk of food.

Carbohydrates and lipids are primarily of an energetic nature, constituting the "fuel", while proteins are the basic material that makes up the physical structure of the body. They allow cells and tissues to maintain their organization in space. The best known are collagen and keratin.

• Micronutrients are present in very small amounts in foods. They do not provide energy but are necessary for cell function. They include more than a hundred vitamins and minerals.

Vitamins are nutrients necessary for the body, which the body cannot synthesize or produces in insufficient quantities. It is therefore essential to have an intake of vitamins.

Minerals are classified into two categories: so-called "major" minerals such as calcium, potassium, or sodium, and trace elements like iron, zinc, copper, or selenium. They are present in very small amounts but are nonetheless very important. They contribute to the building of the skeleton, nerve conduction, muscle contraction, digestion, and immunity.

It's a fact: our food is on average 5 times poorer in nutrients than 50 years ago! Yet essential to life, scientists reveal the gradual disappearance of vitamins and minerals in food. Globalization and our modern food system have gradually altered the way we produce, cultivate, distribute, and consume food.

• Intensive agriculture and the quest for ever greater yield

With globalization, farmers must meet an increasingly strong demand. Fertilization, irrigation, and the massive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers cause a decrease in minerals in cultivated plants.

Farmers also use genetically modified plants. The crops appear larger, more attractive, and more resistant, but they are depleted in nutrients. This is called the dilution effect.

Our fruits and vegetables have become particularly poor in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Several studies conducted on the nutritional content of improved fruits and vegetables over a period of 51 years show that broccoli has lost 80% of its copper and 75% of its calcium, while the potato has lost 45% of its iron and 35% of its calcium.

• Soil exhaustion

Modern farming techniques impact soil quality. Where soil plays a fundamental role in crop nutrition. Composed of air, water, organic and mineral matter, the soil nourishes crops and influences the amount of nutrients present in food.

Today, soils are becoming depleted and foods are also losing nutrients. This phenomenon tends to increase over time due to our practices.

In 100 years, European soils have lost 72% of their mineral content.

• Harvesting before maturity

With globalization and the growth of exports, food travels around the world. On average, food travels 2,500 kilometers before being consumed.

To arrive fresh on supermarket shelves, fruits and vegetables are very often picked before maturity. This means that the foods have not been able to properly complete their ripening process. They have not had enough time to absorb nutrients from the soil or to develop nutrients related to sunlight such as anthocyanins (natural food pigments) or polyphenols (antioxidants).

Thus, our modern diet no longer meets the nutritional needs that the body requires. This is why supplementation can prove beneficial in covering micronutrient deficiencies.

In addition to a nutrient-depleted diet, our environment has also become harmful to our bodies. Today, inhabitants of more than 90% of cities worldwide breathe polluted air. And the problem has continued to grow over the past few years.

The pollution of our daily environment impacts our body and influences our health, our morale, and even our appearance.

For example, air pollution is toxic to cardiovascular and respiratory health and causes mood disorders, stress, and anxiety. From an aesthetic point of view, pollution causes premature aging of skin and hair cells. It thus promotes hair loss, dull complexion, and the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines.

Today, despite policies aimed at reducing pollution, we are constantly exposed to harmful substances attacking our organs, our cells, and even our DNA! Thus, our body must double its efforts to defend itself. Its needs for nutrients, especially antioxidants, are therefore greater to limit the oxidative damage caused by pollution.

Thus, our modern diet no longer meets the nutritional needs that the body requires.

To stay healthy, even with a varied and balanced diet, the use of nutritional supplementation can be very beneficial to protect and detoxify the body.

Due to our nutrient-poor diet and daily external aggressions, our body manages to live at only 60% of its real potential.

Recognized as natural health products, dietary supplements help restore the physiological balance of the body to increase its potential. Today, more than half of the French population consumes dietary supplements.

A dietary supplement is neither a food nor a medicine. As its name indicates, a dietary supplement is not intended to replace a regular diet. Also called a "nutritional supplement", its primary role is to complement our diet, which today, as we have seen, is greatly depleted in nutrients.

For this, it provides the body with a nutritional benefit, which depends on its composition. It can include vitamins, mineral salts, trace elements, antioxidants, amino acids, fatty acids, and other active ingredients. All of this complements those present in the diet.

Supplements, as well as foods, therefore play a fundamental role. They are involved both in our physical health and our mental health. Their effects also impact our stress levels, our emotional well-being, and also our appearance.

The dietary supplement is often specific to certain situations, life stages, beauty goals, or pathologies:

• Energy : 

Dietary supplements can provide nutritional support to give energy to the body and reduce physical and mental fatigue.

Our Active Energy Complex boosts physical and cognitive performance thanks to vitamin C and extracts of hibiscus, guarana, and ginseng. Its formula also contains an extract of eleuthero, an adaptogenic plant that enhances cognitive performance and contributes to increased mental and physical energy.

• Stress and sleep:

Dietary supplements can help combat stress and sleep disorders.

Our Absolu de Magnésium, combines in its formula a patented liposomal magnesium, marine magnesium, B and D group vitamins, to reduce fatigue, fight stress, and improve sleep.

• Beauty of the skin:

Nutritional supplements can thus improve skin quality thanks to purifying, antioxidant, nourishing, moisturizing, soothing, plumping active ingredients, etc.

For example, our Complexe Peau Nette concentrates ultra-targeted active ingredients such as extracts of stinging nettle, burdock, and rosemary, to regulate sebum production and purify the tissues of blemished skin.

Our Grape Absolute from natural ingredients rich in polyphenols, the most powerful antioxidants, to protect cells from oxidative stress and help slow down skin aging.

Our Absolu de Collagène is made of natural type I collagen and elastin, to promote visibly firmer and more elastic skin.

• Hair : 

Dietary supplements can provide the nutrients necessary for healthy hair.

Our Hair Nutrition Duo revitalizes and strengthens the hair fiber thanks to two complementary formulas.

L'Absolu de Kératine of natural keratin of excellent quality proven to be highly bioavailable contains by clinical study. It is directly assimilated by the body.

The Growth Complex contains all the micronutrients that make up keratin: sulfur amino acids, B vitamins, and minerals. Its active ingredients deeply nourish the hair bulb to promote growth.

• Detox:

Dietary supplements are particularly effective for detoxifying the body thanks to active ingredients that support liver drainage.

The Liver Detox is a concentrate of depurative phytotherapy that stimulates the elimination of toxins, fights against heavy metals, and sustainably protects the liver, the body's filtering organ.

•  Slimming: 

Dietary supplements can promote weight loss through ingredients that stimulate the body's energy expenditure, commonly called "fat burners".

The Fat Burning Program contains 30 natural active ingredients to trigger sustainable weight loss through 3 formulas that offer in synergy:

• The Metabolism Activator helps increase calorie expenditure to burn more fat at rest.
• The Active Energy Complex promotes the burning of sugars and fats, and helps reduce the feeling of hunger, to initiate sustainable weight loss.
• The Slimming Detox stimulates the elimination systems and cleans the filtering organs to improve their detoxifying power.