Omega-3 and Vitamin D each treat many mental health problems - April 2018

Mental Illnesses list of National Alliance of MI	Vitamin D Life # of items April 2018
ADHD	15
Anxiety Disorders	754
Bipolar Disorder	8
Borderline Personality Disorder	7
Cognitive	200
Depression	154
Dissociative Disorders	-
Early Psychosis and Psychosis	296
Eating Disorders	132
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder	45
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	30
Schizoaffective Disorder	58
Schizophrenia	>70

Examples of Treatment of Mental problems as of April 2018

• ADHD reduced by just 3,000 IU of Vitamin D and methylphenidate for just 12 weeks – RCT Feb 2018
• Half of ADHD children treated by Omega-3 RCT 2009
• Teens no longer depressed after vitamin D raised to 36 ng – Feb 2012
• Happy Nurses Project gave Omega-3 for 3 months – reduced depression, insomnia, anxiety, etc for a year – RCT July 2018
• Omega-3 reduces many psychiatric disorders – 2 reviews 2016
• Omega-3 found to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in animals – Sept 2017
• Violent schizophrenia patients treated by 3 months of Omega-3 – RCT Aug 2017
• Psychosis risk reduced for 80 weeks by just 12 weeks of Omega-3 – RCT Aug 2017
• Schizophrenia treated by 6 months of Omega-3 – RCT Nov 2015
• Cognitive decline in elderly slowed by Omega-3 – meta-analysis May 2015
• Cognition of Alzheimer’s patients improved by daily 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2015
• Severe acute pancreatitis treated in 11 ways by Omega-3 in just 7 days – RCT April 2018
• Mental Illness and Vitamin D
• Mental patients – 4 in 6 had under 12 ng of vitamin D, only 1 in 6 had over 20 ng – May 2017

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Search Vitamin D Life for "mental illness" OR “Mental Health" 3110 Items as of May 2018

• Hypothesis: Some Mental Illness could be treated or prevented with vitamin D
• Omega-3, Vitamin D, and other nutrients decrease mental health problems – March 2015
• Mental health intervention trials using enough vitamin D for long enough found benefits – Jan 2017
• Mental health problems cut in half when have adequate level of vitamin D – Jan 2013
• 91 percent of psychiatric hospital admissions had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – May 2018

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Cognitive category starts with the following

Very brief summary of Cognitive decline
Treatment : Vitamin D intervention slows or stops progression
Prevention : Many observational studies - perhaps Vitamin D prevents
Omega-3 both prevents and treats cognition
Wonder the benefits if both Vitamin D AND Omega-3 were to be used
Dementia page - 50 items

373 items in Cognition category

see also Overview Alzheimer's-Cognition and Vitamin D
Overview Parkinson's and Vitamin D

Studies in both categories of Cognition and:
Cardiovascular (7 studies), Genetics (9 studies), Vitamin D Receptor (16 studies), Omega-3 (49 studies), Intervention (19 studies), Meta-analyses (22 studies), Depression (23 studies), Parkinson's (22 studies)
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Poor cognition 26 percent more likely if low Vitamin D (29 studies) – meta-analysis July 2017
Every schizophrenia measure was improved when vitamin D levels were normalized – June 2021
Cognitive Impairment and Dementia often associated with low Vitamin D – April 2020
IQ levels around the world are falling (perhaps lower Vitamin D, Iodine, or Omega-3)
Search Vitamin D Life for "WHITE MATTER" 325 items as of March 2023

Types of evidence that Vitamin D helps brain problems - 2014

 Download the 2014 PDF from Vitamin D Life

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Also of interest

• Benefits of Omega-3 plus Vitamin D were additive – RCT Sept 2021
• Vitamin D and MS, ALS, Autism, Alzheimer’s and other nervous system diseases – review Aug 2013
• Poor cognition 26 percent more likely if low Vitamin D (29 studies) – meta-analysis July 2017
• Postoperative cognitive dysfunction 8 X more likely if low vitamin D – March 2018

Alzheimer's

• Overview Alzheimer's-Cognition and Vitamin D
• DDT 3.8 X more prevalent with Alzheimer disease (no mention that DDT decreases vitamin D) – Jan 2014
• Alzheimer’s patients 3X more likely to have a malfunctioning vitamin D receptor gene – 2012
  Note: there are >7 ways to improve the receptor gene
• Severe Alzheimer's delayed by 1 year with vitamin D intervention – March 2014

Suicide

• Suicide associated with low vitamin D - many studies
• Suicide 2X more likely with low vitamin D (in military) – Jan 2013

Depression

• Vitamin D depression RCT canceled: too many were taking Vitamin D supplements, etc. Feb 2018
• Depression is associated with low Magnesium – meta-analysis April 2015
• Anti-depression medication about as good as big increase in vitamin D – meta-analysis of flawless data April 2014
• Postpartum depression 7X more likely if less than 10 ng of vitamin D – Sept 2014

PTSD

• Magnesium may be an important way to treat brain trauma
• Vitamin D aided progesterone in reducing traumatic brain injury – RCT Dec 2012
• Vitamin D and Glutamine reduced Trauma Center deaths by half – March 2017

Omega-3

• Omega-3: An Intelligent Decision for Brain Nutrition (book chapter) April 2018
• ADHD, Autism, Early Psychosis and Omega-3 – review Dec 2017
• Omega-3 – fewer than 5 percent of adult women get the RDA – April 2018
  • Note: The RDAs for both Omega-3 and Vitamin D are too low to support health
• Vitamin D, Omega-3 supplementation helps cognition – perhaps due to serotonin – Feb 2015
  • And, increasing one may increase the other

Stroke

• Ischemic stroke 17 X more likely if low vitamin D – April 2017
• Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection followed by monthly 60,000 IU) – RCT Aug 2016

Autism

• Vitamin D and autism - treat: 300 IU per kg per day, prevent: during pregnancy 5,000 IU – Feb 2017

Epilepsy

• Epilepsy appears to be treated by Vitamin D (starting 5,000 IU RCT) – Dec 2016

Other Mental Health Groups which might be interested in treatment

http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/ - US
https://mhe-sme.org/ - Europe