I like vegetables better than meat, but I don't really like fish. Likes and dislikes are Akane!
So, there seems to be a story that depression is dangerous when vitamin D is deficient.
According to Sputnik Japan
The University of Queensland has studied what processes occur in the human brain when the body is deficient in vitamin D. Researchers have figured out why vitamin D is so important to health and how its deficiency causes depression and schizophrenia.
And that.
Experiments with mice have shown that after 20 weeks, brain function has declined significantly after completely removing vitamin D from the mouse diet.
Mice with reduced vitamin D had reduced learning ability and memory.
Vitamin D works for mental health! It has been said for a long time, but on the contrary, if you run out of vitamin D, you will be in a bad state.
It was confirmed that nerve cells in the brain were destroyed when vitamin D was deficient, and destruction was confirmed in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus of the brain. This is also important for depression and mental health, as nerve cell damage in the hippocampus is greatly involved in depression and mental disorders.
On the contrary, it seems that the destroyed nerve cells also recover. Was good.
It has long been said that Japanese people eat fish a lot and get smarter with DHA, but fish also contain a lot of vitamin D, which has helped them develop their memory and learning abilities. It may be.
In any case, low vitamin D is bad for depression and mental illness, and high vitamin D is good for your health! So, take vitamin D positively.
The story that vitamin D is good for depression is also written in the following article.
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