Bioadditives: What is Our Dose of Trust?

Bioadditives, improving the daily diet, helping to defeat diseases and prolong youth, become permanent companions of modern man. In Europe and the US, famous for their serious attitude to the health of citizens, a high and long living standard, as well as a clear system of medical insurance and excellent judicial support for consumers' rights, they are regularly accepted by the majority of the population. Why do we still have a suspicion of bioadditives?

Let us first consider those objective reasons, because of which the biological supplements are perceived as "charlatan" tablets and powders that do not give the promised results:

Firstly, fraudsters often use the transitional status of bioadditives (between traditional healing herbs and artificial drugs). Especially it concerns numerous means of impotence. Various "magic roots" and "inexhaustible sources of male power." The right way to resist this is to get reliable information, confirmed by research and, by the way, also the instruction to the drug, that you got an extract, say, ginseng in tablets, and not a dandelion from a nearby lawn.

Secondly, since most of the bioadditives on our market are produced abroad and imported, it is quite justified that people are afraid of fakes and inflated prices. Nevertheless, the authenticity of those bioadditives that are manufactured in America, Switzerland, Germany and which have quality certificates, including those issued by Russian specialists, can not be questioned.

Finally, not all the side effects from taking the supplements are thoroughly studied. In fairness, it should be said that far from all are known side effects of most prescription drugs.

And now let us cite a number of equally weighty arguments in defense of bioadditives:

Before you go for any dietary supplements in the pharmacy and start taking them on the advice of girlfriends or thematic sites, you should clearly understand that the supplements, above all, meet the concept of health. If, in the case of tablets, we are forced to take them to eliminate the existing disease, in the case of dietary supplements we always deal more with the prevention of these diseases or compensate for the lack of useful substances in the body. The majority of negative reviews left by doctors, representatives of expert commissions and ordinary consumers, is just related to the fact that bioadditives are perceived as a panacea for all diseases and expect immediate, maximum effective results from them. But you need to take the supplements, usually DO, and not AFTER.

Vitamin-mineral complexes, which belong to bioadditives, have long proved their effectiveness, although they must be taken carefully, so as not to cause an excess of some vitamin in the body. In addition, there is a banal marketing reason: a number of drugs to reduce the cost of sales began to move to the category of dietary supplements. These drugs can be called bioadditives, but act as medications that can withstand diseases.

It is known that our energy costs have recently declined, and the need for useful substances has increased dramatically, and not the least role in this has been technical progress. According to the head of the Vitamin and Mineral Resources Laboratory of the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Spirichev, which he expressed in an interview with the Internet magazine "Zdorovie", it is necessary to take vitamin supplements and vitamin supplements to compensate for their deficiency in the diet.

Bioadditives on natural raw materials are really capable of "clearing" the body of poisons, in contrast to chemicals that are addictive. For example, the drug Entegnin (new, in tablets, a form of polyphepan - a powder acting on the principle of activated charcoal) is a source of hydrolysis lignin, obtained by special processing of cellulose from various types of wood and possessing increased sorption properties.

The substance of coenzyme Q-10 has long been used in cosmetics, and the use of tea as an antioxidant has more than one millennium. Carrots are vitamin D, an orange is similar to an ascorbic, and a green apple, rusty in the air, contains a useful iron. You ask, why then do not all the supplements be replaced by natural products? After all, the best sources of vitamins and trace elements are difficult to come up with! But the only question is how much vegetables and fruits that we buy are really natural. According to American scientists, the content of calcium in broccoli decreased by 37%, the pumpkin lost half the vitamin B2 content , and the apple lost 24% of that iron. Add to this the inevitable heat treatment, the deteriorating conditions for agriculture, and you will understand why the modern world can not do without bioadditives.

So, we are more likely to risk health without taking supplements than completely rejecting them. In any case, our dose of confidence in any dietary supplements should increase with the appearance of objective evidence of their benefits.