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We have already shown that the food presents technical limits and that the caloric intakes of each person should be increased, sometimes doubled, to reach the contributions recommended, which is far from being advisable.
These observations, carried out in the past on iodine for the population as a whole, on the vitamin D for the children and on iron for the pregnant women, carried out to the supplementations practiced now since many years.
But the recent studies put forward other lacks: for example, 80% of the children and the adults in <> do not receive the contributions recommended out of zinc, 60% of the adults from magnesium, more than 90% of the teenagers, from vitamin K...
And these studies do not hold account of the phenomena on the stress, pollution, phenomena which touch everyone, nor of those which relate to more restricted cases like the hereditary grounds, the factors of risk of certain diseases, the sport or the intake of medicine.
The simple fact being a woman is associated - before the menopause - with increased need for iron; to be a man it is necessary to have increased level of zinc. However, we have already evoked, these lacks of contribution from mineral salt has consequences on the figure, the health and the incidence of diseases, like bony demineralization for the vitamin K, the vulnerability with the infections for zinc, the hyper-reactivity to stress and the increase in the frequency of cardiovascular pathologies for magnesium.
It is thus important to supplement by adapting new food habits and life hygiene by a supplementation more complete than the already desired supplementation.
The latter must compatible, synergistic and be adapted :
• compatible, i.e. not associating zinc and iron, whose absorption is cancelled when they are in presence one of the other and not associating iron and vitamin C or copper and vitamin C or copper and vitamin E, their joint presence transforming the anti vitamins oxidizing into products pro oxidants ;
• synergetic, i.e. acting in concert, with effects higher than the simple addition of their components. For example, magnesium acts as synergy with the vitamins B, because not only they intervene in many reactions as those which carry out to the energy production, but magnesium plays a fundamental part in the transformation of the vitamins B into active biochemical tools, the coenzymes ;
• adapted, i.e. including the substances and the amounts able to meet the needs not covered by a balanced food of each great group: children, men, women, women pregnant, old people. And also those containing the needs not covered for the people facing stress vulnerabilities (spasmophilia), the osteoporosis or essential hypertension. The needs for the sportsman in competition are not the same ones as the sportsman on holiday. The student preparing an examination does not have the same needs as the student in period for re-entry.
In addition, a great part of the French already appears to undergo signs and symptoms: lower physical energy, psychic tonicity, capacity of concentration, faculties of memorizing, adaptation to the stress, anti-infectious defenses, vitality of the skin and superficial body growths which are indicators showing the alarm when there is a deficiency in micronutrients.
In this case, it is not enough to give food advice and a supplementation of daily food balance; it is necessary to add a correct supplementation in order to bring the necessary amounts to cover up the accumulated deficit.
A correct supplementation lasts the time until the disappearance of the signs and the call symptoms and the increase of the biological statute, activated each time by an intake . A supplementation of daily balancing is intended from day to day to mitigate the technical limits of what one finds in his plate and thus while being continuous ( just as iodine in the table salt, the vitamin D in the child, iron with the pregnant woman).
In the event of circumstances when the body is highly used such as stresses, a preparation for an examinations, a fracture, the supplementation of circumstance last the time of this situation. Sometimes, this situation is chronic. The supplementation of daily balancing must then be supplemented by a supplementation adapted to the needs involved by on use, and whose intensity proportionally varies with that.
Pour prendre un exemple concret, il n'apparaît pas possible
d'équilibrer une spasmophilie sans une supplémentation quasi continue en magnésium associé
à un fixateur de celui ci. Mais lorsque le ou la spasmophile part en vacances, il ou elle
aura moins besoin de magnésium que pendant l'année.
On the other hand, if a contrariety, a conflict, an accident occur, the requirements for magnesium will be increased compared to the current needs, and this, proportionally to the intensity of the stress undergone.
Just as the calorie needs vary according to the intensity of the given physical efforts, the requirements in micronutrients vary according to the intensity of the biochemical operations and the physiological functions in which they intervene.
If the supplementation of daily balance comes to supplement the food contributions from day to day, the supplementation a sign call, correction of deficit or circumstance brings to the person in lack or in case of over use of minerals (and/or vitamins, sometimes of fatty acids or amino acids, which acts most of the time as synergy) the complementary quantity of elements which are transitorily lacking with its biological operation.
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