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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Do you know that signs of depression can be avoided if you take vitamins in time ? However, this vitamin complex should be chosen correctly on the recommendation of a doctor. Self-medication is fatal.
Why struggle with depression?
When you have already felt the signs of depression: you do not want anything, you quickly get tired, you have a depressed mood, you need urgent measures. Be sure to consult a therapist for a check-up and that he appoints you a complex of necessary vitamins to correct a negative condition.
After all, depression is not just a bad mood. It can also be a whole complex of ailments associated with the depressed state of the nervous system. For example, constant headaches, sweating sexual interest in a partner (about horror!), Insomnia, external symptoms - bad pale skin in the rashes, dull hair, breaking nails. How to deal with this and how to recognize the real enemy in the form of a lack of necessary substances for the body?
We will tell you about some useful properties of vitamins.
What to take with depression?
Types of depression are different. Therefore, it is necessary to fight them with the help of properly selected drugs. Do not allow amateur activity, otherwise you can do harm to yourself. For example, you wanted to strengthen your body and bought a vitamin complex with minerals in the pharmacy.
If you had previously consulted a doctor, you would have known that some minerals, if they are abundant in the body, cause negative reactions in the form of more severe depression. For example, magnesium.
If you previously found it high in the blood, adding magnesium to your diet as vitamins will further exacerbate your depressed state. It must be removed from the diet, and not added there.
Depression can arise not only because you have something happened or work with a high level of stress. Depressive state threatens to whoever abuses coffee, a lot of sugar (or a dish with a lot of it), very fatty foods.
If your diet is exactly that, consult a nutritionist and choose a healthy menu without fatty, sweet and large amounts of caffeine. And in order to get the substances you need in these products, include in the menu multivitamins containing B vitamins, in particular, B1, B6, B2, as well as vitamin C and folic acid (vitamin B9, necessary for the formation of new cells ).
It is very important at the same time to correctly calculate the dosage, so as not to harm the body.
Vitamin B9
Vitamin B9, which we just talked about, or folic acid, is so useful that in some countries the government obliges producers to enrich it with flour products.
Natural sources of folic acid for you are green salads, vegetables, beans, citrus, flour from coarse flour (for example, rye bread with bran), pork or beef liver, honey. And, of course, vitamin B9 in pharmacy. You will introduce enough folic acid in your diet - avoid depressions and bad mood.
What to do?
You need an average amount - from two to five milligrams of vitamin B9 every day. To ensure that it is well absorbed, supplement it with other B vitamins in the amount of 5-100 milligrams daily.
When taking this vitamin complex, be sure to consult a doctor to find out if you have a low vitamin B12 content in the blood. If, yes, it is necessary to increase the dose of folic acid with concomitant vitamins, since its reception can hide the lack of B12. Its level must be controlled. Lack of vitamin B12 can cause disorders in the work of the gastrointestinal tract, anemia and provoke other troubles.
Vitamin B6
It is also called pyrodoxin. This substance takes an active part in the development of the so-called hormone of happiness of serotonin. If you develop serotonin in the body, then you are joyful and carefree. Help your body, saturate it with pyrodoxin to improve your emotional state.
Together with pyrodoxin, riboflavin and thiamine are very good.
What to do?
You will have enough daily average dose of 100-150 milligrams of B6 for 1-1.5 months. If you arbitrarily increase the dose of this vitamin, you risk upsetting your own nervous system. Excess pyrodoxin (dosage of 200 mg per day or more) contributes to this. And then it will be very difficult to fix it.
Biotin (vitamin H)
If the body lacks vitamin H, and this situation lasts more than 3 months, you are facing depression. By the way, raw eggs in the diet inhibit the effect of biotin on the human body. Therefore, they should be avoided on an empty stomach.
What to do?
Include biotin in the menu at a dosage of 300 mcg per day. Duration of admission is 4-6 weeks.
Take the right vitamins and take good care of our advice. Joy to you and mutual understanding of loved ones.
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Attention!
To simplify the perception of information, this instruction for use of the drug "Vitamins and depression" translated and presented in a special form on the basis of the official instructions for medical use of the drug. Before use read the annotation that came directly to medicines.
Description provided for informational purposes and is not a guide to self-healing. The need for this drug, the purpose of the treatment regimen, methods and dose of the drug is determined solely by the attending physician. Self-medication is dangerous for your health.