Anxiety, Depression May Lead to High-Fat Diet-Related Brain Changes
A high-fat diet has been shown to cause brain changes that can contribute to anxiety and depression. The latest results, performed on mice, have shown that an increase in body weight and high blood sugar as a result of a high-fat diet is linked to anxiety and depression. The senior author, Dr. Bruno Guiard, "When treating depression, you usually do not predict any treatment resistance. So if we think of metabolic disorders as a predictor of biased treatment resistance, this should encourage psychiatrists to apply personalized treatment with antidepressant drugs that no longer destabilize metabolism. " When the mice were taken from the high-fat diets their metabolic weaknesses were completely reversed and their anxiety symptoms were reduced. Dr. said. Guiard, "This result reinforces the idea that normalization of metabolic parameters may lead to a better chance of remission, especially in patients with depression with type 2 diabetes." The results were publi...