Secondary causes of depression
After reading a lot about neurometabolic disorders in depression, and cases of refractory patients that get better after an intervention like vitamin D or folate, I was wondering:
1) What are your go-to screening tests for depression? Is it worth it to quantify folate and B12 levels? What about testosterone on males or tests like DHEA suppresion?
2) I've read the CANMAT on supplements (Clinician guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders with nutraceuticals and...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 12, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: FrancisTheCatatonic Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: forums
Re: Vitamin D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised controlled trial
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Source: BMJ Comments - July 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Mortality among participants in placebo and vitamin D groups
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Source: BMJ Comments - June 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Vitamin D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised controlled trial
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Source: BMJ Comments - June 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
It is racism to ignore the colour of skin and its associated differences in vitamin D production linked to health problems and maternal mortality
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Thoughts on vitamins and supplements
What are your thoughts on taking vitamins and other supplements? If you work in retail, you will get this question almost daily. I am not aware of any proven benefit of taking multivitamin in trials. However, I don’t necessarily advise against it if someone asks me about multivitamins.
Conversely, what is your opinion on B12 or Vit D supplants? If someone complains about lethargy and asks for recommendations, I advise them to try b12 supplement for a month and see if that makes a...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - June 3, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chrish Tags: Pharmacy Source Type: forums
Re: GP suspended for nine months after promoting vitamins and iodine for covid-19
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Vitamin D linked to fewer suicides.
Vitamin D Supplementation Linked to Fewer Suicide Attempts
A large retrospective study of US veterans finds those receiving vitamin D2 or D3 had fewer suicide attempts or episodes of intentional self-harm than matched peers who didn't take the vitamin.
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Source: Student Doctor Network - February 5, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: whopper Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: forums
Re: Can vitamin D protect against covid-19?
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Re: Prevention of covid-19 and other acute respiratory infections with cod liver oil supplementation, a low dose vitamin D supplement: quadruple blinded, randomised placebo controlled trial
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Re: Effect of a test-and-treat approach to vitamin D supplementation on risk of all cause acute respiratory tract infection and covid-19: phase 3 randomised controlled trial (CORONAVIT)
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Oral vitamin D supplementation has a limited role in many patients: irradiation with UVB could be beneficial to produce an optimal level of vit D3, even for the normal individual.
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Re: Effect of a test-and-treat approach to vitamin D supplementation on risk of all cause acute respiratory tract infection and covid-19: phase 3 randomised controlled trial (CORONAVIT)
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Source: BMJ Comments - September 10, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Vitamin D testing is often not necessary but is frequently prompted by symptoms
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Re: Do not routinely test for vitamin D
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