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• Respect for the human body and our shared need for well-being
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A forerunner in the health food supplement market in France, Synergia is a nutritional medicine laboratory that offers a range of over 60 dietary supplements and customized cures.

Aware of the importance of a quality diet for long-term health, and of the importance of quality nutritional supplements, the Synergia laboratory has never ceased to make the general public aware of the role of nutri-therapy and phytotherapy in health and well-being.

Synergia was created in 1996, with the first nutritional supplements including Calm box, the best-seller in France. Since its creation, Synergia has been distributing its food supplements in pharmacies and has been acclaimed by doctors and health professionals.

The manufacture of our food supplements follows rigorous procedures manufacturing procedures:

• Application of French and European pharmaceutical requirements.
• Quality of raw materials and traceability of the batches used.
• Manufacture by the French pharmaceutical industry, guaranteeing good practices.
• Allergen-free: in order to avoid allergy problems, our supplements do not contain neither gluten, nor lactose, nor GMO.
• All our products are registered in the Vidal, the reference database on healthproducts.

The origin of nutritherapy

In France and in Western countries, the majority of the population has access to a varied and relatively balanced diet. Cases of rickets in children, scurvy or beri-beri, have totally disappeared from official public health statistics. On the other hand, it is important to note that the modern diet, resulting from the food industry, is not adapted to the nutritional and micronutrient needs of human, directly impacting his health. This is why nutritherapy is becoming more and more essential.

Modern diet and nutrients

The modern diet is a diet rich in calories but poor in nutritional intake. It presents specificities that are not adapted to the human body, which encounters assimilation difficulties or is simply deprived of certain essential nutrients. It seems important to recall the role of food in the evolution of human through the ages. The human body, like nature, is able to adapt but only in the very long term. However, the modern diet has changed considerably over the last 70 years. This change would be one of the explanations for the increase in lifestyle-related diseases (obesity,  diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc.).

The disadvantages of modern food:

• Aggressive cooking methods that totally or partially destroy the nutritional qualities of food.
• Intensification of cultivation and breeding, phytosanitary treatment of the soil which denatures the intrinsic nutritional qualities of plants and animals.
• Unsuitable methods of collecting and storing fruits and vegetables. The current harvesting is done on unripe fruits and vegetables, which do not have all their vitamin capital. These fruits and vegetables are also treated with chemicals to prevent rotting. Finally, the prolonged storage of fruits and vegetables favors the degradation of vitamins by natural oxidation.
• The industrialization of food: the almost systematic refining of raw materials removes essential nutrients (cereals) and many additives are used in the preparation of complex industrial dishes.
• Unstructured meals with low fruit and vegetable intake.

Overconsumption and deficits

Lifestyle and environmental factors have a definite impact on our nutritional needs leading to an over-consumption of nutrients.

Here are some examples:

• Stress causes magnesium and B vitamins to leak into the urine. These deficits make us more sensitive to stress and increase the feeling of uneasiness. In the longterm, stress can have consequences on general health.
• Fatigue due to infectious consequences, overwork, stress, overconsumes all nutrients: vitamins, minerals, amino acids and trace elements.
• Industrial pollution, smoking and the use of certain medications overconsume all micronutrients. They produce free radicals which accelerate the destruction of cells, source of accelerated aging, source of degradation of the genetic capital of cells.
• Sport overconsumes all micronutrients (sweating). It induces the proliferation of free radicals, under the effect of oxidative stress.
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding overconsume all micronutrients.
• The sun generates free radicals en masse and therefore overconsumes the repairing micronutrients.

Disruptive elements

Free radicals come from the alteration of molecules in our organism under the effect of pollution, radiation and the action of the sun (they are free electrons). Some very active free radicals attack the cell's components and are responsible for pathological processes and degenerative diseases. The consequences can be serious: free radicals can promote carcinogenesis and accentuate all inflammatory processes and cardiovascular problems.

The overuse of drugs has significant side effects that lead to an increase in medical prescriptions to compensate for these side effects. Moreover, the increase in life expectancy, facilitated by medical progress, is concomitant with an excessive consumption of drugs.

Nutritherapy at the service of the modern human

The ideal diet is less and less possible. Indeed, the micronutrients provided by food are limited, due to intensive farming and soil depletion. The modern diet and lifestyle also reduce the intake of micronutrients while increasing the needs (overconsumption). Finally, we are subject to massive aggression from free radicals as a result of changes in the environment and our lifestyles.

It is possible to act by choosing as much as possible food from organic agriculture, that you cook yourself, while using supplementation, that is to say taking food supplements adapted to your needs.

The effectiveness by the synergy

The formulation of our food supplements is based on a combination of micronutrients whose effectiveness is optimized by the complementarity of its components. For example, natural vitamin E and vitamin C, or flavonoids between them.

Respect for biocompatibility and bioavailability

The formulation of our food supplements avoids harmful associations of incompatible nutrients in a tablet or capsule. For example: vitamin C and iron, vitamin C and copper, iron, copper and manganese which, when combined in the same food supplement, are pro-oxidants and generate free radicals.

Bioavailability is the capacity of the body to absorb a micronutrient. This bioavailability can be optimized by the choice of micronutrients (such as natural vitamin E, which is 8 times better used by the body than synthetic vitamin E) or by the choice of a carrier or catalyst, which improves the absorption of a nutrient by the body (such as magnesium glycerophosphate, which is better absorbed than magnesium oxide).

Nutritional dosages

Taking our food supplements alone or in combination has no side effects and does not induce metabolic disturbances, even in the case of prolonged use.

High quality raw materials

• Capsules of marine origin, no gluten.
• No dairy protein, no GMO.
• Fish oils concentrated in EPA and DHA, free of heavy metals, EPAX standard quality.
• Vegetable oils (evening primrose and flax) of the highest quality, without oxidation or pesticides, SILVER standard quality.

A scientific committee

Most of our food supplements are formulated by a scientific committee made up of doctors specialized in nutritherapy, whorely on published and validated scientific studies. Indeed, the knowledge in nutritherapy and phytotherapy, the results of new clinical studies complete every day the available data. Such a system allows us to offer innovative products, putting quality and efficiency at the heart of our approach.