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Present on the set of 19/20, the journalist and doctor Damien Mascret takes stock, Wednesday, September 7, on food supplements.
Beyond Internet scams, what about food supplements? Do they have a real interest in our health? “First, you have to remember that supplements are not medicine. And then, if you have a balanced diet, a priori, you are not deficient, you do not need supplements”explains, Wednesday, September 7, the doctor and journalist of France Télévisions Damien Mascret, present on the set of 19/20 of France 3.
Damien Mascret, however, tempers his remarks: “There are still cases where it can be useful. The first is obviously if you have deficiencies”as at the onset of winter or at certain times in life, when “we have increased needs, for example, women who want to have babies, even before pregnancy, in the two months preceding, you have to take folate supplements, vitamin B9, to reduce the risk malformation of the spine and brain of the future baby”.
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