The 5 Nutrient Deficiencies Behind Depression

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today I want to cover five nutritional deficiencies that can lead to depression.

Your DNA can influence your mood and cause you to become susceptible to nutritional deficiencies, even if you’re on a fairly good diet.

Vitamin deficiencies that may cause depression:

1. Vitamin B12

The best forms of vitamin B12:

• Methylcobalamin

• Hydroxy B12

2. Folate (vitamin B9)

The best form of folate:

• Methylfolate

3. Vitamin D3

4. Vitamin B1 (thiamine)

5. Zinc

Try taking vitamin B12 and folate together and see if that gives you relief. If it doesn’t, you could move on to the other vitamins.

It’s a good idea to try taking the last three vitamins one at a time, with a few days in between, rather than all at once. This way, you have a better idea of which one you could be deficient in.

Other natural ways to improve depression:

1. Take probiotics

2. Do intermittent fasting

3. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet

4. Get out in the sun

5. Exercise

DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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0:00.0	Today I want to talk about five nutritional deficiencies that can definitely cause depression
0:08.2	from a physical level. I've been doing a serious deep dive into DNA and I'm finding all sorts
0:14.0	of fascinating things in relationship to people becoming susceptible to nutritional deficiencies
0:22.4	on top of having a fairly decent diet. And out of all the things that DNA can definitely
0:27.5	influence the mood is right at the top of the list. Now, I just want to clarify something.
0:32.4	When you're looking at a DNA test, you're not looking at levels of neurotransmitters or vitamins
0:40.1	or hormones, things like that. You're looking at gene variations or alterations between people.
0:47.7	And there are certain genes that can give you a susceptibility to having more of a problem with
0:52.5	a certain thing than someone else. And I'm talking about vitamins that can affect neurotransmitters.
0:59.0	So today I'm going to talk about the five nutrients in relationship to them being the most
1:04.0	common reason for depression. And when I get down with the list, I don't recommend taking all
1:08.4	of these vitamins. Okay, I just recommend taking one at a time. So that way you really know which
1:14.8	one is involved in your mood. Now let's start with number one. It's B12. If you're deficient and
1:19.8	B12, you're not going to be able to make serotonin. Now B12 is involved with a lot of different
1:25.7	things in the body, but I want to focus more on your mood. So B12 is absolutely necessary essential
1:30.6	for making the neurotransmitter serotonin. And it can be several genes involved with why you're not
1:35.7	absorbing B12 or it could be in the transfer of B12. But the point is if you have a problem with this
1:41.0	genetically, well, it's going to be really hard to satisfy B12. Now I'm assuming you're consuming
1:47.7	animal meats. Okay, I'm assuming that you're not a vegetarian or a vegan because that could be the
1:52.9	reason why you're not getting B12. Because B12 is in red meat, it's in organ meats, it's an animal
1:58.9	protein. The other reason is that your stomach acid is not very concentrated. So you have like this
2:05.9	weak stomach acid where you don't have enough acid. And the way that you know you don't have
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