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Vitamin D improves anti-depressant drug response
Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 13

Vitamin D improves anti-depressant drug response

Adding vitamin D to standard anti-depressant medication has been shown to improve treatment response compared to medication alone.

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Can drinking soft drink lead to suicide?
Posted on Sun, 16 Sep 12

Can drinking soft drink lead to suicide?

Sugar rots your teeth, and also your brain. A little talked about discovery is that drinking soft drink, or liquid sugar, is strongly associated with serious mental health problems such as depression and suicide.

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Mental distress linked to serious illness
Posted on Mon, 13 Aug 12

Mental distress linked to serious illness

Psychological distress has been linked to increased risk of death from illnesses such as heart disease and cancer, and the more distress the higher your risk.

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5-hydroxy-tyrptophan (5-HTP) for depression
Posted on Sun, 22 Jul 12

5-hydroxy-tyrptophan (5-HTP) for depression

Some 30 years ago studies of the dietary supplement 5-HTP suggested benefit in depressive disorders but this research came to a halt, perhaps by no coincidence, around the time that the first selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI), fluoxetine (Prozac) was approved in the United States

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Eat yourself happy: Diet for depression
Posted on Mon, 25 Jun 12

Eat yourself happy: Diet for depression

Compared to conditions like heart disease and obesity the evidence connecting food to mood has been lacking, however new evidence has strongly linked nutrition to psychiatry.

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Vitamin D treatment relieves depression in adolescents
Posted on Sun, 22 Apr 12

Vitamin D treatment relieves depression in adolescents

Treatment with vitamin D has been shown to relieve symptoms of depression in a group of Swedish adolescents, a discovery that suggests vitamin D deficiency could be an easily treated cause of depression

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