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neuro equipoise
04-01-2004, 05:33 AM
On - Wed, Mar 31, 2004, 10:29pm (EST+5) humongojugomango@cs.complicity
(nigel--gift*to*all*women) wrote:

> its like i get really irritable and annoyed whenever
> anyone speaks, even friends ive known for 20
> years (i am 30 and have been partying since i was
> around 15yrs old) and have always been
> congenial with get on my nerves..

Alcohol depletes the body of a lot of important brain building blocks.
The B-complex vitamins are vital to recovering alcoholics, and are part
of all multi-vitamin and mineral formulas. Wishing you well.


Excerpt:

"The B-complex vitamins are essential to mental and emotional well-
being. They cannot be stored in our bodies, so we depend entirely on our
daily diet to supply them. B vitamins are destroyed by alcohol, refined
sugars, nicotine, and caffeine--the very substances that most alcoholics
consume almost to the exclusion of everything else. Small wonder that
deficiencies develop."

Vitamin B1 (thiamine): Deficiencies trigger depression and irritability
and can cause neurological and cardiac disorders among alcoholics.

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): In 1982 an article published in the British
Journal of Psychiatry reported that every one of 172 successive patients
admitted to a British psychiatric hospital for treatment of depression
was deficient in B2.

Vitamin B3 (niacin): Depletion causes anxiety, depression, apprehension,
and fatigue.

Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid): Symptoms of deficiency are fatigue,
chronic stress, and depression.

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine): Deficiency can disrupt formation of
neurotransmitters.

Vitamin B12: Deficiency will cause depression.
Folic acid: Deficiency is a common cause of depression.

http://www.trans4mind.com/nutrition/depression.html

http://www.alcoholism.cc/MainPage.html