2023-09-25 19:01:34
[The Epoch Times, September 26, 2023]A doctor who has been engaged in psychiatry for 26 years raised a question, which is the effect of high-dose vitamin C on mental health, and how it is related to the methylation problem and pyrroliuria we often talk about. What is the relationship?
Why is vitamin C so important for our mental health? Vitamin C is also called ascorbic acid. Lack of vitamin C can cause scurvy, which often causes anxiety and depression before the disease occurs. Therefore, vitamin C has a great impact on our mental activities.
The person who invented vitamin C won the Nobel Prize. Later studies found that the content of vitamin C is highest in our brain and nervous system. Where the content is high in the body, the greater the body’s need for it. If the body lacks vitamin C, the eventually reduced vitamin C will also be in the brain and nervous system, so we must ensure that our brain and nervous system have enough vitamin C.
Let’s explain the important role of vitamin C in our brain. Vitamin C, an antioxidant, can reduce inflammation and inflammation. The brain, like other parts of the body, can also cause chronic inflammation and various neuropsychiatric diseases for various reasons. Vitamin C is also a coenzyme for the production of important neurotransmitters in our brain. It is important for the production, synthesis and recycling of important neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, epinephrine, etc. Influence.
Simply put, a lack of vitamin C can cause a variety of emotional problems such as anxiety and depression, and can also affect cognitive problems, memory, concentration, judgment, etc. If you want to better improve your mental and physical health, you should ensure you get enough vitamin C, eat as much fruits and vegetables as possible, or get it from healthy foods. It is okay to supplement with no more than 2,000 mg of vitamin C a day.
The psychiatrist’s question at the beginning of the article talks about the relationship between methylation and pyrroliuria. Methylation and pyrroluria are both amplified when we experience peroxidative stress, so the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of vitamin C can help alleviate the problems of methylation and pyrroluria. The most important thing is that vitamin C is also involved in the regulation of the gene’s appearance, and will also affect methylation and pyrroliuria. Therefore, vitamin C plays an important role in the treatment of methylation disorders and pyrroluria.
The final conclusion is: Vitamin C is very important to our mental health, and it is recommended that everyone must supplement it.
About the Author
New York Northern Medical Center combines the unique advantages of modern medicine and ancient traditional medicine to treat diseases with integrated, innovative and personalized methods to improve physical and mental health and quality of life.
Dr. Yang Jingduan, CEO of New York Northern Medical Center, comes from a family of traditional Chinese medicine. He is an American practicing psychiatric and behavioral medicine physician and an expert in integrative medicine. He is the author/author of the English monograph “Facing East: The Ancient Secret of Modern People’s Health and Beauty” (HarperCollins, 2016) and “Clinical Acupuncture and Ancient Chinese Medicine” (Oxford Press, 2017) etc.
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