Nutrition Depression Mayo Clinic
Madelyn Grindel
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Nutrition has a role in the prevention and the treatment of behavioral health disorders.3 Suboptimal nutrition has been implicated in the underlying pathology of behavioral health disorders because of the essential role of nutrients in the neuroendocrine system. Nutrients, including tryptophan, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid (folate), phenylalanine, tyrosine, histidine, choline, and glutamic acid are necessary for production of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, which are involved in the regulation of mood, appetite, and cognition.1 Marine-derived omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids regulate dopaminergic and serotonergic neurotransmission, which can decrease both depression4 and anxiety.5 Therefore, poor diet quality leading to inadequate nutrient intake is a risk factor for the development of behavioral health disorders and, accordingly, is a target for the prevention of these illnesses. Furthermore, correction of nutrient deficiencies is important in the management of behavioral health disorders.
The International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research has recommended that nutritional medicine be considered mainstream in psychiatric practice, with research, education, policy, and health promotion supporting this novel framework. A challenge to the implementation of this framework is the difficulties in establishing an evidence base, because of the complex multidimensional nature of behavioral health disorders. Numerous risk factors for behavioral health disorders have been identified spanning biological, environmental, social, and intrapersonal factors.6 Thus, it is difficult to establish the relative contributions of any single factor, and analyses are likely subject to residual confounding. Furthermore, epidemiological investigation of diet and behavioral health disorders is particularly prone to reverse causation; poor diet could be a cause or a consequence of a behavioral health disorder, and, likely, a bidirectional relationship exists. As elegantly described by Begdache et al,7 mental well-being promotes healthy lifestyle practices (ie, healthy diet, physical activity, and other healthy practices), which then positively reinforce future healthy lifestyle practices. However, the absence of healthy lifestyle practices leads to decreased mental well-being, which, in turn, reduces healthy lifestyle practices, in a vicious cyclic pattern. Therefore, establishing the temporal relationship between diet and behavioral health disorders is complex. Furthermore, intervention studies to establish causative effects of diet on behavioral health are subject to challenges common to clinical nutrition research of any end point,8 with the added complexity of the lack of objective biomarker outcomes and the reliance on questionnaires and other survey-based methods to determine changes in symptomatology.
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Overall health was the main covariate associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety, a well-documented relationship38,39,40. An additional component of physical health is access to adequate nutrition, and our findings demonstrate that 25% respondents reported food insecurity in 2021. These results are comparable to those of other reports: 29% of graduate students from the University of California reported food insecurity in 2017 (ref. 3), while more recent work from the State University of New York at Albany found 40.3% of respondents report food insecurity8. At our institution, LGBTQ+ and URM respondents faced higher levels of food insecurity than their peers, which has been observed in other studies8, a phenomenon that suggests that addressing food insecurity may improve recruitment and retention of under-represented graduate students. Food-insecure respondents reported more mental illness symptoms, lower satisfaction with mentorship, and lower perceived career prospects, consistent with other recent studies8,41. This suggests that providing adequate nutritional and financial support is vital to ensuring the health of students and the retention of a diverse trainee workforce.
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the efficacy of methylphenidate in the treatment of depression in a group of older, medically ill patients. METHOD: Sixteen patients underwent an 8-day double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial; 13 completed the trial. RESULTS: Statistically and clinically significant treatment responses were found. CONCLUSIONS: These results support the use of methylphenidate in older, medically ill patients in whom rapid resolution of depressive symptoms is crucial.