: A Mineral for Mental Energy

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:34 PM EST

Article Source: psychologytoday.com

health, energy, depression, mental-health, mineral, chromium

Chromium, an essential mineral found in whole grains, mushrooms, liver and brewer's yeast, may play an important role in helping to regulate mood.

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Take the form of depression known in the mental health world as atypical depression, actually something of a misnomer because it is hardly atypical. It afflicts more than a third of those with the mood disorder. What's atypical is that sufferers crave carbohydrates, binge eat and sleep excessively and gain weight, in contrast to garden-variety depression, marked by obvious anxiety, loss of appetite, insomnia and weight loss. Persons with atypical depression also are exquisitely sensitive to rejection and experience overwhelming, sometimes paralyzing, fatigue.

Researchers at Duke University have found that a daily dose of 600 mcg of chromium picolinate led to a significant decrease in symptoms among those with atypical depression. The mineral was most effective in curbing their tendency to overeat. The dose was considerably higher than that which most people get through a normal diet

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