Don't worry, be happy - health / fitness / nutrition / diet / supplements / personal care / environment - folic acid improves mental health - Brief Article

Vegetarian Times, Nov, 2003

Sufferers from depression are twice as likely to have high blood levels of homocysteine, a normal by-product of metabolism that is ordinarily broken down by the B vitamin folic acid, The findings, based on blood samples of almost 6,000 adults aged 46-49 and published in the June 2003 Archives of General Psychiatry, support the belief that vitamin B is important "not only for physical health, but for mental health as well," says lead researcher Ingvar Bjelland, MD, of Norway's University of Bergen.

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Any deficiency seems to impair the body's ability to metabolize homocysteine, resulting in depression.

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Don't worry, be happy - health / fitness / nutrition / diet / supplements / personal care / environment - folic acid improves mental health - Brief Article

Vegetarian Times, Nov, 2003

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