Studies Regarding Stress Prevention
- Foods high in folic acid and B vitamins can help to stabilize your mood because they’re needed to make serotonin. Vitamin C fights stress b/c it’s an antioxidant that fights free radical that get released when you are stressed – “10 Superfoods for Stress Relief,” on Better Homes and Garden: BHG.com Sept 2004
- Vitamin B12 and folate deficiency are often associated with affective disorders mainly of the depressive type. This deficiency most commonly induces a depressive syndrome and seldom a syndrome with manic features – “Mood Disorder with Mixed Features Due to Vitamin B12 and Folate Deficiency,” on General Hospital Psychiatry v.24 2002 p.106-109
