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I wonder Vitamin D deficiency is to blame, or a major factor, in the increasing rates of depression. My personal hunch tells me that it's not simply due to peop
by opportune 9y ago
I wonder Vitamin D deficiency is to blame, or a major factor, in the increasing rates of depression. My personal hunch tells me that it's not simply due to people becoming more willing to seek treatment. Wikipedia [0] mentions that vitamin D supplementation typically shows no effect for patients with depressive symptoms and only moderate effect for patients with diagnosed/diagnosable depression, but from reading the linked article [1] it seems like the studies they base this research on perhaps weren't using enough Vitamin D according to the new research
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Other_conditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Other_conditions
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008710/