Depression and Nutrition

Depression Related to Nutrition

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Some people are aware of the connection between nutrition and depression. Depression is some time thought as chemical based or emotionally-rooted. On the other side nutrition can play a key role in the starting and duration of  severity of depression.

The most common phsycologycal disorders that are currently prevalent  in various countries are depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and OCD. It is seen that many Asian  and American countries are often deficient in many nutrients, especially essential vitamins, minerals and omega-3 fatty acids. Studies have shown that daily intake of supplements of vital nutrients related to the disorders are often effective in reducing the symptoms. Supplement containing essential amino acids have also been found to reduce the symptoms, modulating the neuro-transmitters which alleviate depression and other mental disorders. Most prescribed drugs leaves various side effects on the patients, which called anti-depressants and near about all the mental patients have a tendency to avoid these type of drugs , that's why they discontinue the medicine and their problem used to aggravate gradually. The nutritional therapy is the alternative way to overcome these disease's. Most of the time the doctors and pshycriartists do not recommend the supplements, so we have to aware ourselves to overcome these concerns . Some times self help is most helpful for these types of problems, some times our surroundings play a key role to counterattack these disorders. The mental patients maximum of the time is far from adequate nutrition, they make poor food choices. According to research this types of disorders linked to low levels of neurochemicals, basically the common bio-chemical is the Serotonin, it is also linked to suicide in mentally challenge people.

Depression is a disorder associated with noticeable symptoms such as increased melancholy and anxiety, loss of appetite, mood swings, loss of interest in joyful activities. The major major neuro chemicals such as serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, GABA are often associated with depression shown in several studies. Dietary supplements such as Inositol, SAM e, vitamin-b supplements, omega-3, protein supplements are very effective in the treatment of these kind of problems.

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