The absence of some vitamins and nutrients in your diet could lead to some mental health issues. That's why it's important to know the types of vitamins linked to mental health and how they affect the human brain.

Vitamins And Mental Health

There are 13 types of vitamins including:<ul><li>Vitamin A</li><li>The B vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, B6, B12, and folate)</li><li>Vitamin C</li><li>Vitamin D</li><li>Vitamin K</li><li>Vitamin E</li></ul>

Types Of Vitamins

Any disorder that affects mood, thinking, and behavior can be described as a mental health problem. There are different ways to treat mental health issues including psychotherapy or medication. However, medical treatments do not always work best for some individuals. This creates the need to seek alternative solutions such as nutrition therapy.

Mental Health

Various mental health conditions could have adverse effects on your lifestyle. Among them is depression, a condition that is associated with a lack of some vitamins. It is the most common mental health condition. It affects people of all ages, races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and ethnicities.

Impact of Vitamins on Mental Health

Low levels of folate have been linked to depression. Folic acid helps the body make healthy red blood cells.Folic acid can be found in green leafy vegetables, citrus fruits, beans, fortified bread, and cereals. With folic acid, you should only consume around 1 milligram daily.

Where To Find Folic Acid

Mental health problems such as memory loss, anxiety, depression, irritability, and insomnia are also associated with deficiencies in vitamin B1. The brain uses this vitamin to help convert glucose or blood sugar into energy. This means that without it, the brain may not have enough energy to function normally. Lack of enough vitamins may also lead to fatigue, loss of appetite, and gastrointestinal disorders.

Vitamin B1(thiamin) and mental health

Vitamin B12 is a key component in the formation of red blood cells. Its deficiency could lead to an oxygen-transport problem in the blood known as pernicious anemia. This disorder may cause issues like mood swings, paranoia, irritability, confusion, dementia, and hallucinations (or mania).A diet that includes vitamin B complex helps boost mental health.Vitamin B deficiency could negatively influence your memory function, and cause cognitive impairment and dementia.

Vitamin B12 and mental health

When Vitamin B12 and folate supplements are combined, they enhance the production of serotonin and dopamine. The two vitamins both play important roles in regulating and maintaining a good mental health state. It is important to note that older people are more susceptible to deficiency of vitamin B12.

Vitamin B12 and Folate Combined

Vitamin B12 can be found in plenty in animal products such as fish, lean meat, poultry, eggs, and low-fat and fat-free milk. Fortified breakfast cereals also are a good source of B-12 and other B vitamins.

Where to get vitamin B12. 

Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with active mood disorder and depression. Further investigations point out that vitamin D is important and is used during brain development. Vitamin D can be gotten naturally from the sun, inadequacy of vitamin D has been positively linked to mental problems.

Vitamin D and mental health

Maintaining a healthy diet may help you avoid nutritional deficiencies that cause mental health problems. It is not difficult to stay on a healthy diet plan including daily vitmain and mineral pills.Reducing or avoiding alcohol intake, cigarette smoking, refined sugars, and caffeine may help to maintain good mental health.

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Why the brain needs vitamins and minerals⁉️

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What To Know About Vitamins And Mental Health

Moral injury is a wound, an attack from the environment on your system of beliefs, principles, and values. Do you have a job where you have to do things that go against your principles? That’s a blow to your morale. Do you have a relationship in which your partner boycotts your opinions? That’ll also damage your morale.

Moral Injury

As humans, we’re not what we possess, we’re everything we believe in. When your morals are damaged, you feel more than simple offense or annoyance. In fact, when the values that are rooted in your very being are attacked or contradicted, the core of your identity and your self-concept fracture.Today, we all live in a state of constant moral tension that completely undermines our fundamental principles and what we consider to be ethical. You experience threats to your integrity and identity in a really similar way to physical threats.

Identity and Self-Concept

When you experience continuous moral injury, your brain changes. You start to interpret the experience as a threat similar to physical aggression. Failing at work, making a serious mistake with someone, doing something that goes against your values because of outside pressure, or being in an abusive relationship breaks you. They’re assaults on your morality that you experience in the same way as a physical attack.

Symptoms and consequences of Moral Injury

<ul><li>Emotions such as guilt, self-disgust, shame, anger, rage, sadness, and anxiety appear</li><li>You experience feelings of deep disillusionment with institutions, people, and yourself</li><li>You suffer an existential crisis that often leads to depression</li><li>Psychosomatic effects occur. For instance, insomnia, muscle pain, headaches, gastrointestinal disturbances, weakness, exhaustion, etc.</li></ul>Moral injury is often translated into an ‘acute stress response’, an effect similar to post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Effects

When our morals suffer long-term bombardment, we tend to become blocked. Our emotions are so intense and painful that we become numb. Moral injury distorts who you are and what you believe in. For this reason, it’s good to start with somatic therapy. Aimed at ensuring that emotions attached to the body and that cause pain and illness end up being externalized and verbalized. Breathing and relaxation techniques and movements or stretching achieve that connection and, ultimately, a catharsis.Later, conversational therapy begins, in which the lived experiences, the thoughts that accompany them.

Healing the wound of moral injury

Moral injury breaks something inside you. It's an attack on your morals, those that, essentially, make you who you are. Find out more here.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Moral Injury: An Extremely Damaging Phenomenon

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There is no charge for awesomeness and attractiveness.

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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

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The true path to victory is to find your opponent's weakness and make them suffer for it.

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There is just news. There is nothing good or bad.

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The mark of a true hero is humility.

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<ul><li>Ask yourself, "Is this book any good?"</li><li>100 pages minus your age - so if you're 30 years old and a book hasn't captivated you by page 70, stop reading it. That way, as you age, you have to endure crappy books less and less.</li></ul>

Stop reading books you aren't enjoying

<ul><li>A collection of quotes, ideas, stories, and facts that you want to keep for later.</li><li>This will make you a better writer, a wiser person, and a more appreciative owner of words and ideas.</li><li>Many famous writers, including Walt Whitman, Walt Carroll, and Thomas Jefferson, kept a version of this for years.</li></ul>

Keep a commonplace book

<ul><li>We cannot be content to simply pick up a book once and judge it by that experience; it's why we have to read and reread.</li><li>Because the world is constantly changing and we are constantly changing, therefore what we get out of books can also change.</li></ul>

Reread the masters

<ul><li>If a book changed someone's life, it's worth the investment and will likely help you in the long run, give it a try.</li><li>Ask famous people for recommendations and find out what they read.</li><li>This will deepen your relationship with the book.</li></ul>

Ask people you admire for book recommendations

<ul><li>Read and learn from the experiences of others. Drink deeply from history, from philosophy, and more.</li><li>Study the cautionary tales and the screw-ups, the failures and successes of other entrepreneurs. If you don't, it's a dereliction of duty.</li></ul>

Don’t just learn from your own experience

<ul><li>Re-read something that has really spoken to you in the past.</li><li>Instead of expecting a random book to reach you, go back to something that's already spoken volumes to you.</li><li>You'll discover how much more there is to learn.</li></ul>

Get out of a dry spell

Ryan Holiday shares six tips to become a better reader to lead a better life.

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6 strategies that will make you a better reader — and person

<ul><li>How to master my emotions</li><li>The importance of a meditation practice</li><li>To not take things so seriously</li><li>How to find joy in any situation</li></ul>

The Power Of Now

<ul><li>A spiritual take on the state of modern masculinity.</li><li>This is for those with a masculine edge that want to master their relationships, pursue their purpose, and harness their masculine energy in the modern world.</li></ul>

The Way Of The Superior Man

<ul><li>A compilation of Hermetic teachings based on the 7 principles originally explained by Hermes Trismegistus — the scribe of the gods.</li></ul> <ul><li>This book will give you a foundational understanding of reality, and the material world, and aid you on your spiritual journey.</li></ul>

The Kybalion

<ul><li>I didn't find any teachings that were inherently different from the ones in the books previously mentioned.</li></ul> <ul><li>Alan Watts is just an incredible storyteller. The way he presents his teachings are poetic. They will put you in a proper headspace.</li></ul>

The Wisdom Of Insecurity

<ul><li>The books prior to this are a bit hard to interpret and apply to your life if you haven't dove into the spiritual side of things before.</li></ul> <ul><li>Awareness will make everything "click," allowing you to mentally and spiritually navigate your own suffering.</li></ul>

Awareness

Everything started to click for me after reading this. Why myself and others became obsessed with certain areas of life, went all in, and turned it into our lifes work. This book gives you the step-by-step info you need to do what you love for life.

The Art Of Impossible

<ul><li>Similar to #6 (he references it a lot), Flow will give you a foundational understanding of the "flow state" and how to tap into a degree of it at any moment.</li></ul> <ul><li>A similar goal of most spiritual teachings, but Flow dives into the practical science-based applications.</li></ul>

Flow

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7 books that will change your life (that you've probably never heard of):

If you really want to do something you will find a way. If you don't you will find an excuse.

Success is neither magical nor
mysterious. Success is the
natural consequence of
consistently applying the
basic fundamentals.

Motivation is like food for the
brain. You cannot get enough in
one sitting. It needs continual and
regular refills.

The size of your success depends
on the depth of your desire.

Approach the start of each day
with something in mind and end
the day with one word.. .DONE.

Cause change and lead;
accept change and survive;
resist change and die.

People are anxious to improve
their circumstances, but are
unwilling to improve themselves.
That is why they remain bound.

A compilation of quotes from some of the greatest motivators and businessmen and businesswomen. This book is intended for those who want the motivation and inspiration to achieve the dreams they may have, whether it's to become a better parent, a more successful businessman or businesswoman, or becoming a better student.

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Thomas J. Vilord is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Thomas J. Vilord has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Thomas J. Vilord's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Thomas J. Vilord

1001 Motivational Quotes for Success

Humans need an accurate view of the world to survive. If your model of reality is different from the actual world, then you struggle to take effective actions each day.However, truth is not the only thing that matters to the human mind. Humans also seem to have a deep desire to belong.Humans are herd animals. We want to fit in, bond with others, and earn the respect and approval of our peers. Such inclinations are essential to our survival. For most of our evolutionary history, our ancestors lived in tribes. Becoming separated from the tribe—or worse, being cast out—was a death sentence.

The Logic of False Beliefs

Convincing someone to change their mind is the process of convincing them to change their tribe. If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties. You can’t expect someone to change their mind if you take away their community too. You have to give them somewhere to go. Nobody wants their worldview torn apart if loneliness is the outcome. The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, integrate them into your tribe, and bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.

Facts Don't Change Our Minds. Friendship Does.

Years ago, Ben Casnocha mentioned an idea to me that I haven't been able to shake: The people who are most likely to change our minds are the ones we agree with on 98 percent of topics.If someone you know, like, and trust believes a radical idea, you are more likely to give it merit, weight, or consideration. You already agree with them in most areas of life. Maybe you should change your mind on this one too. But if someone wildly different than you proposes the same radical idea, well, it's easy to dismiss them as a crackpot.

The Spectrum of Beliefs

There is another reason bad ideas continue to live on, which is that people continue to talk about them.Silence is death for any idea. An idea that is never spoken or written down dies with the person who conceived it. Ideas can only be remembered when they are repeated. They can only be believed when they are repeated.I have already pointed out that people repeat ideas to signal they are part of the same social group. But here's a crucial point most people miss: People also repeat bad ideas when they complain about them. Before you can criticize an idea, you have to reference that idea.

Why False Ideas Persist

Why do you want to criticize bad ideas in the first place? Presumably, you want to criticize bad ideas because you think the world would be better off if fewer people believed them. In other words, you think the world would improve if people changed their minds on a few important topics.If the goal is to change minds, then I don't believe criticizing the other side is the best approach. Most people argue to win, not to learn.

The Intellectual Soldier

The brilliant Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”When we are in the moment, we can easily forget that the goal is to connect with the other side, collaborate with them, befriend them, and integrate them into our tribe. We are so caught up in winning that we forget about connecting. It's easy to spend your energy labeling people rather than working with them.

Be Kind First, Be Right Later

What's going on here? Why don't facts change our minds? And why would someone continue to believe a false or inaccurate idea anyway? How do such behaviors serve us?

Why don't facts change our minds? This article explains the logic of false beliefs and proposes a better system for constructive conversation.

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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

Who you spend time with will define the stories you hear.The stories you hear will define the stories in your head.The stories in your head will define you.

What's Your Definition

In a world filled with people living their lives for someone else, a truly well-lived life, is the one where we stay true to our own selves.

Be Yourself 

Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: regret or results. A year from now you will wish you had unfollowed emotionally draining people. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘no’ more often. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘yes’ to yourself more often. A year from now, you will never be sure of the results.

Years From Now.

How we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.It is rare almost impossible, for a mean, conniving, hurtful, racist, bigoted person to truly love themselves.

Make Your Reflection Worthy

.... gold is an investment, jewellery is not.When we disguise our desires as our needs, we almost always end up making a mistake.

Need Vs Desire 

No one sees how you overcame your habits and systems despite having ‘failed’, because they focus on the end result, that you failed.

Failed!

The truth is, your current rules of success and failure have been written by the world. Go ahead and rewrite them. For yourselves.

Go ahed & For Yourself!

This book is not going to be a revelation. It is meant to be a reminder. A reminder of how life happens to all of us, in a similar yet unequal fashion.
Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

Ankur Warikoo is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Ankur Warikoo has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Ankur Warikoo's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Do Epic Shit

Meaning has to be understood as a relationship rather than an absolute state. We feel meaning when we are connecting us to ourselves, to others, and to the world. His perspective is deeply influenced by Daoist & Buddhist philosophies. We face a meaning crisis when  feel anxious & alienated because we’re stuck in our head, lose the sense of our embodiment. When we feel weak connection with reality (the Dao).

Vervaeke's Definition of Meaning

The modern world has gone wrong with its construal of rationality as the logical manipulation of statements. Rationality is not the only form of knowing. "We’ve reduced our understanding of what knowing is to merely the propositional level, and we’ve left out the participatory. We’ve left out all the non-propositional aspects."The rituals, our sensations, intuitions, our insights, the physical activities and so are representing truth and play a key part in creating meaning. It's why Vervaeke thinks the Zen masters have a more complete epistemological framework than the best Western scientists.

Participatory Knowing

Meaning in life is the degree to which people feel that connectiveness to themselves, to each other, and to the world that alleviates or ameliorates that anxiety, absurdity, and alienation, so that life is worth it to them…Do you have those kinds of connections enough that you don’t find life overwhelmingly absurd and futile, that you don’t feel yourself overwhelmingly alienated, that you’re not overwhelmingly beset by both psychological or existential anxiety?

Vervaeke tries to explain meaning to Lex. 

John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:  - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off  - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off  - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings  - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil  - Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off   EPISODE LINKS:  John's YouTube: https://youtube.com/johnvervaeke  John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john  John's Facebook: https://facebook.com/VervaekeJohn  John's Website: https://johnvervaeke.com  Books mentioned:  Flow: https://amzn.to/3cQDby9  On Bullshit: https://amzn.to/3PZDvYW  The Denial of Death: https://amzn.to/3KsIctp   PODCAST INFO:  Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast  Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8  RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/  YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman  YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips   SUPPORT & CONNECT:  - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast  - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman  - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman  - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman  - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman  - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman   OUTLINE:  Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.  (00:00) - Introduction  (00:26) - Meaning  (20:41) - Consciousness  (29:41) - Relevance realization  (41:03) - Wisdom  (48:18) - Truth  (53:02) - Reality  (1:05:23) - Meaning crisis  (1:28:51) - Religion  (1:36:41) - Nontheism  (1:51:50) - Distributed cognition  (2:10:01) - Flow  (2:29:59) - Psychedelics  (2:38:27) - Marxism and Nazism  (2:50:32) - Evil  (2:54:43) - Powerful ideas  (3:01:34) - Advice for young people

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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis & the Search for Wisdom

You don’t win alone. That’s just how it is.”

“Bokuto is the kind of person that compels you to give it you all, because you know he’s giving it his all.”

“Even if we’re not confident that we’ll win, even if others tell us we don’t stand a chance, we must never tell ourselves that.”

“It’s not your place to give up.”

“All of you should be able to make it! To the highest limit, to the farthest limit!”

“Today might be the chance to grasp the chance to let your talent bloom.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Ever since he saw the legendary player known as the "Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to-and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, the King of the Court, Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy who is supposed to be his rival ends up being his teammate?!

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Ever since he saw the legendary player known as the "Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to-and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, "the King of the Court," Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!

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