Amino acids help with depression!

28/04/2007 Scientific study shows positive effect of amino acids on
body and soul

The now renowned in the journal European Archives of Psychiatry and
Clinical Neuroscience, published results of a four-year research
project shows that depressive moods are linderbar by amino acids, now
shares the lead investigator with Professor Dr. Jürgen Spona. The
scientist is part of the advisory board of medical care and advice
portal www.qualimedic.de here the online consultation sports
nutrition. The study of the working group of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen
Spona, the longtime director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for
Cellular Endocrinology, Vienna took place in cooperation with the
Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Graz and the
company Vita Logic. The province of Styria funded the research. An
imbalance of amino acids can lead to the reduction of protein
synthesis and resulting in fatigue, depressed mood, difficulty
concentrating and impaired immune defenses.

Amino acids are the smallest building blocks of proteins, explains
Professor Spona. A deficiency of amino acids is produced for example
by stress, disease or growth and aging processes, university professor
Spona makes clear. Through a controlled supply of amino acids, both
the physical and the mental capacity of the body strengthened so
Spona. He sees as a natural alternative to amino acids and at least a
supplement to traditional antidepressants. Increased availability of
neurotransmitters in the human body leads to a positive mood. While
modern antidepressants increase, which also often have side effects
result in the existing messengers to "chemical means" to make amino
acids the human body naturally enough building materials for the
synthesis of these neurotransmitters available. "The administration of
protein components can improve even severe depression in those
patients who have been treated with antidepressants," says Univ. Dr.
Jürgen Spona. This natural treatment is often not only allows a dose
reduction, but in many cases even discontinuation of psychotropic
drugs, patients Spona courage makes a university professor.