Expensive and no use? Orthomol and other immune treatments perform poorly in the test. In many such products all sorts of vitamins, minerals and trace elements are mixed together.

Such micronutrient cocktails make an overdose of individual nutrients more likely. Anyone who takes immune stimulants in the form of dietary supplements runs the risk of an overreaction in the worst case scenario. So under no circumstances should you take nutritional supplements that promise to strengthen the immune system? In Germany the answer is ‘yes’