Posted by Cam W. on June 8, 2001, at 23:28:42
In reply to Vitamins, posted by sl on June 5, 2001, at 14:26:16
sl - The only way B-complex vitamins would work for depression is perhaps if you were short of a specific B-vitamin. The B-complex vitamins help maintain the mylen sheath which make up the white of white nerve fibres.
Intact myelin sheathes help conduct nerve signals faster, along the long sensory and motor nerve fibres. The electic signal along these nerve fibres jumps over the myelin sheathes and propagates the action potential (nerve signal) in breaks between myelin sheaths called the nodes of Ranvier. The myeline sheath is itself a specialized cell called a Schwann cell.
When the myelin sheath is not not intact, the nerve signals are transmitted more erratically. This is seen in disorders like multiple sclerosis, where the myelin sheath degenerates to the point of the nerve fibre becoming useless.
- Cam
P.S. If the yellow pee from B- and C-vitamins were any brighter, you would not need to turn on the light at night to go to the bathroom (not really).
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