Life is precious and to be enjoyed. The outward result of your life starts in a very warm, cozy place — right inside YOU. Your thoughts create the feelings and ultimately the responses that you exhibit. If you are happy, loving, sad, determined or any other state, it is the thoughts in your head that creates it (NOT the behavior or activities of others. Hmmm). Have you ever loved something or someone and found out a negative about them and subsequently changed your feelings about them? They didn’t change in that moment, you did. With new information you made a decision to love or not love, to help or not help, to support or not support when there was no change of circumstance. Your thoughts created your reaction. You can work on being positive, simply by changing your mind. Don’t let past decisions complicate your present. Choose health, choose delicious, choose vigorous, choose restful. It’s that simple. What one little new choice can you make today?
Vitamin D and Mental Health
Volumes of studies are now documenting the relationship between vitamin D levels and mental health. It is clear, most of us in the developing world have deficiencies of vitamin D that can impact not only our mental health, but our immunity, disease state, cardiovascular health and many other functions.
Vitamins are generally known to be responsible for a single disease and appropriate supplementation should correct the disease. A hormone, on the other hand, goes to distant tissues and has multiple metabolic activities. Vitamin D is in a class by itself. Its metabolic product, calcitriol, is actually a secosteroid hormone that targets over 1000 genes in the human body. And as such, it should come as no surprise that vitamin D deficiency is also linked to behavioral and mental issues such as major depression and seasonal effective disorder…even possibly autism, Parkinson’s Disease and general cognitive function.
- Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in patients with Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease. Arch Neurol. 2008 Oct;65(10):1348-52.
- Vitamin D deficiency is associated with low mood and worse cognitive performance in older adults. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2006 Dec; 14(12):1032-40.
- Vitamin D receptor variants in 192 patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases. Neurosci Lett. 2005 May 20-27;380(1-2):37-41.
Current recommendations for Vitamin D intake are 2000 IU a day to prevent deficiency states.
Coping with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Some of the ways to combat winter “blues” include letting more light in your house, taking walks, exercising regularly, getting proper sleep, managing the stress in your life and socializing. Easy to say!! Sit down and write out 5 things that are now stressing you and one step you can take to begin to ease the stress. You don’t have to fix the problem all in one sitting. If we make little changes in the directions of our dreams, the stress will lift. Another great idea is to spend 10 minutes right before bedtime and write down the things you are grateful for each day. This is one of the most powerful mood stimulators known to man. Give it a try!
To your health,
Dr. Sennholz
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Any information, medical or otherwise, contained in this blog is purely for entertainment and is not intended as medical advice or medical treatment. Please consult your own doctor for any medical advice or treatment.
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