B vitamins to enhance treatment response to antidepressants in middle-aged and older adults Abstract: Background: Depression is common and the efficacy of antidepressants is suboptimal. High plasma homocysteine has been consistently associated with depression, and treatment with certain B vitamins demonstrably reduces its concentration. Aims: To determine whether vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid enhance […]
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Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle age Abstract: Background: Studies on diet and depression have focused primarily on individual nutrients. This paper examines the association between dietary patterns and depression using an overall diet approach. Method : Analyses were carried on 3486 participants (26.2% women, mean age 55.6 years) from the Whitehall II prospective […]
Effects of dietary supplements on depressive symptoms in older patients Abstract: In this prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, we randomly assigned 225 hospitalized acutely ill older patients to receive either normal hospital diet plus 400 mL oral nutritional supplements (106 subjects) or normal hospital diet plus a placebo (119 subjects) daily for 6 weeks. The composition […]
Shaken but unstirred? Effects of micronutrients on stress and trauma after an earthquake Micronutrient formulation outperforms Berocca Performance in reducing depression, anxiety, and stress in 91 earthquake survivors. Abstract: Following a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, researchers randomized 91 earthquake survivors to take one of two vitamin-mineral formulas (Berocca Performance or a micronutrient formulation […]