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by DoingIsLearning 943 days ago
Apologies for the dumb question but what exactly are "vitamin D-based dietary supplements"?

You have vitamina D rich food and you have actual vitamine D droplets for children. Is dietary supplements in this case meant to have some specific meaning?

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In French dietary supplements refers to these pills that you can buy over the counter in supermarkets (note that in France, unlike the US, you can't buy any kind of medicine in supermarkets) that contain vitamins, minerals, whatever.
Yeah, I think it is just the start of another political problem created to protect a minority of extremely well-off people. Pharmacists and all associated "medicine" staff. They really don't like it when people take matters in their own hands and go take a small amount of risk to avoid the insane markup imposed by those gatekeepers (very often incompetent I might add).

I enjoy the opportunities and liberty brought by technology and open market, there are some risks but considering my own experience with France medicine apparatus I don't think they are any worse than the main road...

I see thanks.