What was measured
Depression
Seven ingredients have been read against depression in this library.
This page is not a ranking. Ingredients are listed by name, in alphabetical order.
Still to read against depression
Our to-read list names nine ingredients to read against depression. Two have no reading here yet: Magnesium, Selenium.
Of the 58 ingredients in this library, seven have been read against depression, from 11 sources. Three of these seven rest on a single source, with nothing yet to check them against. On one, the sources say different things, and its line below names every direction reported.
An ingredient that is not named above is not a gap: nobody set out to read it against depression, and this library holds no record of having looked and found nothing.
The seven ingredients read against depression
The numbers behind these lines are not on one scale. The findings here were reported in three different units, and four of them record no unit at all. Each source read a different group of people, over a different stretch of time, in the units it chose.
- 5-HTP and depressionTwo sources, all measured lower
- Ashwagandha and depressionOne source, measured lower
- Creatine and depressionTwo sources, saying different things: one measured lower and one reported mixed results
- Folate and depressionOne source, measured lower
- Omega-3 fatty acids (EPA/DHA) and depressionOne source, measured lower, and one source carries a notice
- Vitamin B12 and depressionTwo sources, all found no clear difference
- Vitamin B6 and depressionTwo sources, all measured lower
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The other 7 things measured under Mood, stress and thinking
All 136 things measured in this library
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