Struggling With Your Mental Health? Get These Nutrient Levels Checked
Nutrition has a larger impact on your mental health than you might think
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Omega-3 and Vitamin D each treat many mental health problems - April 2018
has the following
| Mental Illnesses list of National Alliance of MI | Vitamin D Life # of items April 2018 |
| ADHD | 15 |
| Anxiety Disorders | 754 |
| Bipolar Disorder | 8 |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | 7 |
| Cognitive | 200 |
| Depression | 154 |
| Dissociative Disorders | - |
| Early Psychosis and Psychosis | 296 |
| Eating Disorders | 132 |
| Obsessive-compulsive Disorder | 45 |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | 30 |
| Schizoaffective Disorder | 58 |
| Schizophrenia | >70 |
Examples of Treatment of Mental problems as of April 2018
- ADHD reduced by just 3,000 IU of Vitamin D and methylphenidate for just 12 weeks – RCT Feb 2018
- Half of ADHD children treated by Omega-3 RCT 2009
- Teens no longer depressed after vitamin D raised to 36 ng – Feb 2012
- Happy Nurses Project gave Omega-3 for 3 months – reduced depression, insomnia, anxiety, etc for a year – RCT July 2018
- Omega-3 reduces many psychiatric disorders – 2 reviews 2016
- Omega-3 found to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in animals – Sept 2017
- Violent schizophrenia patients treated by 3 months of Omega-3 – RCT Aug 2017
- Psychosis risk reduced for 80 weeks by just 12 weeks of Omega-3 – RCT Aug 2017
- Schizophrenia treated by 6 months of Omega-3 – RCT Nov 2015
- Cognitive decline in elderly slowed by Omega-3 – meta-analysis May 2015
- Cognition of Alzheimer’s patients improved by daily 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2015
- Severe acute pancreatitis treated in 11 ways by Omega-3 in just 7 days – RCT April 2018
- Mental Illness and Vitamin D
- Mental patients – 4 in 6 had under 12 ng of vitamin D, only 1 in 6 had over 20 ng – May 2017
Search Vitamin D Life for "mental illness" OR “Mental Health" 3110 Items as of May 2018
- Hypothesis: Some Mental Illness could be treated or prevented with vitamin D
- Omega-3, Vitamin D, and other nutrients decrease mental health problems – March 2015
- Mental health intervention trials using enough vitamin D for long enough found benefits – Jan 2017
- Mental health problems cut in half when have adequate level of vitamin D – Jan 2013
- 91 percent of psychiatric hospital admissions had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – May 2018
Cognitive category starts with the following
Very brief summary of Cognitive decline
Treatment : Vitamin D intervention slows or stops progression
Prevention : Many observational studies - perhaps Vitamin D prevents
Omega-3 both prevents and treats cognition
Wonder the benefits if both Vitamin D AND Omega-3 were to be used
see also Alzheimers-Cognition - Overview
Overview Parkinsons and Vitamin D
Search Vitamin D Life for dementia anywhere in text 1190 items Jan 2019
Overview Schizophrenia and Vitamin D
Search Vitamin D Life for "WHITE MATTER" 53 items as of Jan 2017
37 minute podcast Vitamin D and the brain Vitamin D Council Sept 2014
Includes discussion by Dr. Cannell and Dr. David Llewellyn
Types of evidence that Vitamin D helps brain problems - 2014
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Also of interest
- Vitamin D and MS, ALS, Autism, Alzheimer’s and other nervous system diseases – review Aug 2013
- Poor cognition 26 percent more likely if low Vitamin D (29 studies) – meta-analysis July 2017
- Postoperative cognitive dysfunction 8 X more likely if low vitamin D – March 2018
Alzheimer's
- Alzheimers-Cognition - Overview
- DDT 3.8 X more prevalent with Alzheimer disease (no mention that DDT decreases vitamin D) – Jan 2014
- Alzheimer’s patients 3X more likely to have a malfunctioning vitamin D receptor gene – 2012
Note: there are >7 ways to improve the receptor gene - Severe Alzheimer's delayed by 1 year with vitamin D intervention – March 2014
Suicide
- Suicide associated with low vitamin D
- Suicide 2X more likely with low vitamin D (in military) – Jan 2013
Depression
- Vitamin D depression RCT canceled: too many were taking Vitamin D supplements, etc. Feb 2018
- Depression is associated with low Magnesium – meta-analysis April 2015
- Anti-depression medication about as good as big increase in vitamin D – meta-analysis of flawless data April 2014
- Postpartum depression 7X more likely if less than 10 ng of vitamin D – Sept 2014
PTSD
- Magnesium may be an important way to treat brain trauma
- Vitamin D aided progesterone in reducing traumatic brain injury – RCT Dec 2012
- Vitamin D and Glutamine reduced Trauma Center deaths by half – March 2017
Omega-3
- Omega-3: An Intelligent Decision for Brain Nutrition (book chapter) April 2018
- ADHD, Autism, Early Psychosis and Omega-3 – review Dec 2017
- Omega-3 – fewer than 5 percent of adult women get the RDA – April 2018
- Note: The RDAs for both Omega-3 and Vitamin D are too low to support health
- Vitamin D, Omega-3 supplementation helps cognition – perhaps due to serotonin – Feb 2015
- And, increasing one may increase the other
Stroke
- Ischemic stroke 17 X more likely if low vitamin D – April 2017
- Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection and 60,000 IU per month) – RCT Aug 2016
Autism
Epilepsy
Other Mental Health Groups which might be interested in treatment
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/ - US
https://mhe-sme.org/ - Europe
If struggling with mental health you may need Omega-3, Vitamin D. Iron, Probiotics, etc. – US News Sept 2018
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