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Anxiety and depression increase during winter, psychiatric medicine: Vitamin D deficiency causes nerve cells to 'suffer'

Politiko 2025-02-06 09:08:16

Anxiety and depression increase during winter, psychiatric medicine: Vitamin D

In winter, mental disorders become even more common.

Psychiatrist Irena Thoma said that this period has increased the number of patients, especially those who have had anxiety before.

"It's true. It has increased the number of patients, especially those who have had anxiety before. In general, emotional disorders, psychiatric disorders, have a seasonal character. Many studies have been conducted to understand why this happens, what happens to people and why this division between seasons is so specific and why the state of anxiety is expressed mainly in the winter period.

This is due to the fact that in the winter period, there is a lack of sunlight. The sun is what helps in synthesizing a vitamin called vitamin D. And vitamin D is a very important microelement for the proper functioning of nerve cells in particular, of body cells in general, but also of brain cells in particular.

The lack of this vitamin causes the nerve cell to suffer and it presents a state of anxiety. Therefore, in my daily experience, I have seen patients who have a state of anxiety, when they are asked to check the level of vitamin D in the blood, it turns out that it is low. And it is related precisely to this characteristic", said the doctor.

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