While a nutrient rich diet has shown to improve your overall mental well being by providing you with the specific vitamins essential for fighting depression.
These are some of the nutrients that are most well known for fighting depression, along with the foods you need to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Iron
Even though an iron deficiency isn't likely to be the source of your depression, it can definitely aggravate the symptoms.
If you fail to get enough iron, it's common to experience mood swings, loss of appetite, and severe fatigue.
If you wan to be sure that you're getting the proper amounts iron into your diet every day. these foods should should be incorporated into your meals as often as possible:
- Sesame seeds
- Lentils
- Soybeans
- Cooked Spinach
- Chickpeas, or garbanzo beans
Zinc
A discovery made by the Iranian Journal of Psychiatry found that zinc supplementation proved to be better than their placebo counterparts for the treatment of depression, and mental illness.
Zinc plays an important role in the way your body and brain react to stress throughout the day, and thats why it is crucial for your physical and mental health that you include enough zinc in your diet with foods like:
- Flax seeds
- Garlic
- Egg yolks
- Kidney beans
- Spinach
- pumpkin seeds
- Lima beans