Anyone who eats a low fat diet isn't likely to get a lot of nutrient (vitamin E) which is found in nuts, margarine and vegetable oil. Major depression is associated with defective antioxidant defences and vitamin E is the major fat soluble antioxidant available in the body.
Many health related professionals suggest that this vitamin may have something to do with this disease.
"People with major clinical depression appear to have lower levels of alphatocopherol, a form of vitamin E, circulating in their blood streams," say researchers. But it is not known whether the low levels are due to inadequate dietary intake or are result of depression itself.
An Australian team from the University of Wollongong measured plasma alphatocopherol levels in 49 adults with major depression and looked at the dietary intake of vitamin E of patients in their diet history. The idea was to find out whether these subjects had a lower dietary intake of the vitamin or if their vitamin E levels had fallen due to depression.
The result of the study showed that 89 percent of the subjects interviewed, revealed that they had exceeded the recommended intake of vitamin E. So they came to the conclusion that the lower vitamin level in the blood could be a maker of increased physiological stress possibly increased oxidative stress during depression.
Previous studies have shown that antioxidant vitamins may protect the brain against damage caused by fee radicals and other reactive species produced during basic cellular metabolism. But researchers think that at this stage, it is too early to recommend vitamin E supplements as a therapy for depression.
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