Antioxidants: saviors against mental diseases

Author: 
Mousumi Niyogi

Objective: Mental diseases are spreading gravely over the world which attract attention of the intellectuals.
So, scientists and doctors are searching incessantly how to avoid the diseases. One way for the same is to see whether by a proper choice of the daily diet the desired goal can be reached.
The purpose of this work is to estimate the amount of antioxidant supply from a daily diet because it is known that antioxidants are powerful weapons against free radicals and oxidative stress in the brain which are the root cause of so many mental(psychiatric) diseases.
Actually, high dose of antioxidants are prescribed for some of the psychiatric diseases.
Method: In the estimation of antioxidants in a proposed diet, the quantities of vitamin A, C, E , lipoic acid, and inositol etc in each item of the diet have been evaluated and added up to get the daily supply of the antioxidants. The amount of antioxidants thus obtained have been compared with daily intake amount necessary to safeguard against so many mental diseases.
Results: The estimation of the antioxidants from the proposed diet shows that it successfully matches with the daily intake amount required to prevent some of the mental diseases. However, a comparison of the above with the medicinal doses shows that the former is much less than the latter.
Conclusion: It is concluded from the results of investigation that by proper selection of daily food, so many psychiatric diseases could be safeguarded but when people are attacked with the psychiatric diseases diet alone cannot cure the diseases, so in those cases medical treatment is urgent.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.15244.2779
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