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When we think about the benefits of being ensuring a good bill
of health by keeping track of our daily intake of prescribed
vitamins, minerals and as well as the other nutrients that are
needed by your body in order to stay healthy. It is important to
be conscious of the fact that deficiencies in the daily intake
of vitamins and minerals can negatively affect not only your
physical capabilities but your how your mind functions as well.
Recent research has indicated that such deficiencies can even
contribute to one of the most common mental illnesses of all,
depression.

The Vitamin B complex is incredibly important to our mental
well-being and functioning. Even relatively small deficiencies
can have an adverse effect on a person’s mental health over
time. While serious nutrient deficiencies can actually
contribute to serious mental illnesses. As for the case of
trying your best to avoid mental illnesses, it is highly
important to make sure that your daily diet meets the
recommended amount of the Vitamin B complex.

It is also interesting to note that those with alcohol problems
– often used as a way to cope up with depression can actually
worsen one’s situation, are often suffering from Vitamin B
complex deficiencies. This is because alcohol actually destroys
the Vitamin B in a person’s body.

A lack of thiamine can also lead to a lack of energy as well as
to being sluggish all the time. When ignored and not taken care
of immediately, it can actually lead to deep fatigue, anxiety,
depression and even to having suicidal tendencies. It can also
bring on insomnia, which can contribute to the worsening of each
and every one of these symptoms. Serious deficiency in niacin
has been clinically associated with various mental symptoms like
cognitive slowness which concerns the processing of information,
dementia, anxiety and psychosis. Vitamin B5 has been found to
play a big role in the formation of hormones as well as other
brain chemical processes that are related to a person’s mood.
Nutritional deficiencies can lead to stress and certain types of
depression. Vitamin B6 is essential to the production of
serotonin and dopamine. If continuously ignored, the lack of
Vitamin B12 can eventually lead to various mental disorders such
as serious mood swings, mania, paranoia, dementia and even
hallucinations.

Vitamin C is also important in the prevention or easing the
state of depression that a person is in. It is important to note
that many common medications, both over the counter and
prescription drugs, can actually rob the body of Vitamin C,
which is why a lot of doctors tend to add vitamin C supplements
alongside their anti-depressant prescriptions.

Deficiencies in a number of minerals have been highly associated
with depression and other mental disorders. Among these are
magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, potassium and manganese. They
actually all combine in order to produce and release serotonin
and other compounds that can have positive effects on a person’s
mood and mental health. Other symptoms of a poor mental health
which are greatly associated with deficiencies in the essential
minerals that a person needs, include paranoia, confusion,
anxiety, depression, fatigue and tearfulness.

The brain is ruled by the chemical interactions that obviously
take place within it. These chemicals have a delicate balance to
maintain and nutrition definitely plays an integral role both in
the formation of these essential chemicals and their proper
maintenance. On every level of mental mood and functioning, it
is absolutely necessary that we make sure to meet the
recommended daily intake levels of vitamins, minerals as well as
the other nutrients. Dietary supplements, when used according to
recommended dosages, are a safe means of seeing to it that our
minds are functioning properly and effectively..

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