Mental Illness from Medicine-Induced (and Other) Nutritional Deficiencies

Increasing a depleted nutrient can improve other conditions unexpectedly; medications for these conditions can become too strong, causing the opposite but equally dangerous condition. Nutrients required to put the nail sufficient nutrient into place can suddenly be depleted, causing new or worsening conditions. Medical monitoring during added nutrition can be critically important, more so for worse or long-term conditions where the body has adapted and will need to adapt back to a healthier function. If there is no shortage, there is likely to be no benefit. Likewise, where there is a benefit, there is likely an undiagnosed deficiency or insufficiency.

Medication depletions can be similar to having to feed a workman who you hire to move in to work on your house. Do you starve the cat, or does everyone go on short rations? Different bodies react in different ways.

While poor nutrition, from depleted soil causing reduced nutrients in foods, poor diet, and poverty's lack of choices are real issues, poor absorption and genetic conditions, some only recently becoming recognized, are issues which are treatable or improvable.

Zinc plays many roles in the body and the brain. Deficiency causes deaths from Coronavirus. Insufficiency may not show on lab tests, as the body adapts, a physical coping mechanism, to keep the blood level optimum for functioning, unaware that there is a doctor who needs the lab tests to be low to be able to treat the body. Symptoms of zinc insufficiency may be helpful to know how to treat certain people at more risk from coronavirus at this time, but low zinc by reducing glutathione also causes mental illness. Natural conditions such as Pyrrole syndrome and copper overload also reduce zinc levels.

Twenty years of research has not awakened most of the psychiatric community to the benefits of magnesium supplementation for a significant number of people with depression and neuroses. Undiagnosed deficiencies and sometimes undiagnosable insufficiencies by standard testing (when the body has created a coping mechanism which leaves the levels correct in the serum) cause some depression, through shorting magnesium from neurotransmitters such as glutathione. If there is no shortage, there is likely to be no benefit.

While there is a medical billing code for this medically induced deficiency, patients are not being counseled to take supplements to avoid going deficient, including a medication for mental illness that is thus causing mental illness.

Iron deficiency leads to memory, learning, motor skills, emotions and mental behavioral issues.

Deficiencies from illnesses as well as medications can be misdiagnosed as mental illness, leading to perscriptions causing even more deficiencies. The elderly are commonly deficient of B12. Not only do medications cause this deficiency, but so does a common pathogen, helicopter pylori, often not diagnosed unless it causes an ulcer - and due to poor quality patient preparation, and tests that have full snakedos of which the doctors are not aware, often not even then. Implicated in mental illness, how often do prescriptions and undiagnosed h. pylori cause or exacerbate dementia and mental illness? Lyme disease and pernicious and difficult to diagnose or eradicate illnesses have been implicated in resources not listed here yet.

Intentional antifolates treat diseases. Incidental antifolates can cause diseases, including mental illness, because patients often aren't told to supplement B9 even when put on multiple incidental antifolate medications simultaneously. Certain variations of the MTHFR gene can cause malfunctions in folate metabolism which either cause or simulate deficiency, as well, which has been found to impact mental health, especially since the general treatment is to give folic acid, a synthetic form of vitamin B9, which causes people with the MTHFR Gene polymorphisms to have health issues up to and including schizophrenia as a result. Unmodified folic acid in the blood can block absorption of dietary folate, and result in the same forms of cancer that are more common with a folate deficiency.

For at least 20 years, studies have shown that various B vitamin deficiencies have an impact on mental health, and that supplentation can benefit sufferers. While standard lab tests do not always reveal these deficiencies, there are tests available which can. Some deficiencies are natural, but deficiencies induced by medications.

Undermethylation makes it harder for the body to change which genes to use to function correctly in a changing environment. If any type of treatment - physical, nutritional or psychological - is slower in effecting change, testing and treating undermethylation might cause benefits across the board for people with this condition.