Depression: Vitamin Supplements May Help to
Stop Depression
by Hector
Milla
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New research in depression causes found out that supplements could help
to stop this disease in depressed people that might have problems
metabolizing the B vitamin folate. According to Dr. Ingvar Bjelland of the
University of Bergen, vitamins are important, not only for the physical
health, but for the mental health as well.
The researcher explains that folate might play an important role in
depression, as the body may need the B vitamin in order to build
substances in the brain because a lack of these substances may cause
different mental disorders, including depression.
Depression arises more commonly in people who has high levels of the
amino acid homocysteine in their blood and in those who have a form of a
gene that encodes a protein involved in processing folate, under results
of an investigation performed in Norway.
It is known that folic acid (the form of folate found in supplements)
aid in breaking down homocysteine, which is a normal byproduct of
metabolism. Therefore, Dr. Bjelland explains that the lack of folate
and/or a disturbed folate metabolism may partially cause depression in
some people.
The fact that folic acid supplements may encourage the effects of
antidepressants, as suggested previous research, is supported by Bjelland.
Results published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, may support the
suggestion that folate may prevent depression, acording to the expert.
Researcher’s findings state that people who has relatively high levels
of homocysteine in their blood were almost twice as likely to be
depressed, in comparison to people with the lowest blood levels of
homocysteine.
Bjelland obtained his findings after scanning blood samples from 5,948
people between the ages of 46 and 49, and screening them for depression
and anxiety.
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