Magnesium and Reduced Depression Symptoms

• From Plate to Mind: Scientific Perspectives on Foods That May Influence Anxiety and Depression.

  • 2026-04-22
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Nutrients 18(9)
  • • Antoniya Hachmeriyan
    • Gabriela Panayotova
    • Hristiyana Todorova

  • PubMed: 42123920
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu18091318

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  • Reduced Depression Symptoms

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  Micronutrients serve as enzymatic cofactors for monoamine and GABA synthesis and modulate immune signaling; clinical effects are the most consistent when correcting insufficiency or in biomarker-defined subgroups.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• Trace Elements and Depressive Symptoms in Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review of Sparse and Predominantly Indirect Evidence.

  • 2026-04-24
  • Systematic Review
  • International journal of molecular sciences 27(9)
  • • Jakub Marek Baran
    • Zuzanna Waszak
    • Joanna Jarzębska
    • Damian Grusiecki
    • Maja Śmigielska
    • Wacław Kochman
    • Ewelina A Dziedzic

  • PubMed: 42123390
  • DOI: 10.3390/ijms27093805

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  • Reduced Depression Symptoms

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  • Clinical

  Interventional studies reported modest improvements following zinc or combined magnesium and zinc supplementation, although not in CAD-specific populations.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes