Abstract
The effect of improved nutrition, particularly with dietary supplements, on depression may provide an alternative to standard medical treatment. Secondary outcomes included quality of life according to the SF-36. Participants were assessed at baseline and 30- and 60-day followups.
Max Stress B showed significant and more continuous improvements in depressive and anxiety symptoms, compared to placebo. Thus, we showed modest utility of Max Stress B to improve mood symptoms and mental health quality of life in adults with depression.
What Is A ‘Methylated’ Nutrient?
What Is Methylation And Why You Should Know About It
To give you all the juice fast: methylated B vitamins are bioavailable and thus more easily absorbed so that you can benefit more at lower doses, but they also have an essential role in providing the body with methyl groups. Methylation is a straightforward biochemical process. When optimal methylation occurs, it has a significant positive impact on many biochemical reactions in the body that regulate the cardiovascular, neurological, reproductive, and detoxification systems. Methylation helps regulate your brain chemistry, your response to stress, your immune function, the ability to keep viruses in check (including latent viruses we harbor but suppress), your capacity to detoxify, the activity and expression of your genes, as shown in an article published in Neuropsychopharmacology [1]. It’s therefore crucial that we have optimal methylation. But you may not know that every moment of every day, your body comes to a fork in the road: should it activate methylation or make some more glutathione; since those two processes tradeoff. An optimal balance between these two choices is the bedrock of good healt.
First, Why Do We Need B Vitamins?
“The eight B vitamins, known as the B complex vitamins, are essential to the overall functioning of a healthy body,” says Kylie Ivanir, R.D., dietitian at Within Nutrition.