Food Tech Stories: How Food Can Fix Your Depression
Published: 2022-01-31 22:20:33


Based on this story: [Why nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment](https://theconversation.com/why-nutritional-psychiatry-is-the-future-of-mental-health-treatment-92545)

The importance of mental well-being has been underestimated for a long time. But it isn’t any different from physical health. Everybody has it and we need to take care of it.

Good mental well-being is responsible for our ability to think, feel, and react the way you want. If you are experiencing any problems with your mental health, you may have difficulties in the way you are thinking, feeling, or reacting. It can become difficult or even impossible to handle. These problems can affect your physical health or even much worse.

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One in four people experience mental health difficulties. Most common are depression and anxiety, while problems like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder appear rarer.

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Antidepressants are an indispensable part of treating a mental health problem nowadays. They are meds used to treat significant depressive disorders, nervousness issues, some constant agony conditions, and to help deal with certain addictions. While most of them are considered to be safe, basic symptoms of antidepressants incorporate dry mouth, weight gain, unsteadiness, migraines, and sexual dysfunction. Not so safe after all. Also, it's not known exactly how antidepressants work.

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Antidepressants are an indispensable part of treating a mental health problem nowadays. They are meds used to treat significant depressive disorders, nervousness issues, some constant agony conditions, and to help deal with certain addictions. While most of them are considered to be safe, basic symptoms of antidepressants incorporate dry mouth, weight gain, unsteadiness, migraines, and sexual dysfunction. Not so safe after all. Also, it's not known exactly how antidepressants work.

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But what if there exists another solution that is more safe and natural? Nutrition will be the answer to this question. Numerous psychological wellness issues are an outcome of the inflammation process which eventually makes our synapses die.


This process begins in our gut. As per NCBI, an absence of certain dietary supplements add to the improvement of mental issue. Eminently, fundamental nutrients, minerals, and omega-3 unsaturated fats are regularly insufficient in people in America and other nations; and are outstandingly insufficient in patients experiencing mental disorders.

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The most widely recognized nourishing lacks found in patients with mental health problems are of omega–3 unsaturated fats, B nutrients, minerals, and amino acids that are forerunners to synapses.


Along these lines, omega-3s can battle sorrow and uneasiness. One examination even discovered EPA as viable against depression as a typical antidepressant.  B nutrients assume a preeminent job in keeping up great wellbeing. As the structure parts of a sound body, B nutrients directly affect your vitality levels, mental capacity, and cell digestion.


Magnesium, for instance, is another mineral that underpins several concoction responses in your body. Be that as it may, many people get short of what they need. Probiotics and zinc can likewise help lessen the side effects of uneasiness and misery.


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For individuals who have not reacted to prescribed medications or who can't endure the symptoms, nutritional intervention can inspire hope for a bright future. Antidepressants have been the focal point of discussions recently. While supplements offer another solution that can have an important impact on the well-being of all age ranges.


That is why nutritional psychiatry has the potential in treating mental health problems and should become a part of conventional health services.


Created with help of [Tatsiana Isakova](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatsiana-isakova-5a2ab21a2)


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