• DEPRESSION AFFFETS A LARGE PROPORT OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION, BUT THERE ARE WAYS TO MITIGATE THE RISK OF THIS MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION.
  • Recent Evidence Builds On The Role That Elements of Diet, Physical Activity, and Certain Medications May Play in Depression Risk.
  • One Study from February 2025, for instance, suggests that People Who Take Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Agonist Medication Like Ozempic To Treatment Diabetes Have to Lower Depression Risk Than Peers Taking Other Types of Drugs for This Metabolic Condition.
  • Another Study from November 2024 Indicates That Eating Oranges and Other Citrus Fruits Daily May Help Reduces DEpression Risk.
  • Finally, Research from March 2025 Indicates That Undertaking Regular Moderate-To-Vigorous Exercise Could Help Lower The Risk for Neuropsychiatric Diseases, Inflanation.

DEPRESSION AFFFECTS AN Estimated 5% OF THE WORLD’S ADULL POPULATION, AND ITS SYMPTOMS CAN SEVERLY IMPACT A PERSON’S QUALITY OF LIFE.

There Are Modifiable Lifestyle Factors – Including Diet and Physical Activity LEVELS – That Court Affect A Person’s Risk of Depression, and The Evidence on Which Factors May Impact This Risk and How Continues to Accumculate.

Over The Past Few Months Alone, Researchers Have Highlightd Howtary Choices, Exercise, and Medication Treating Other Chronic Conditions Might Impact A Person’s Risk of Developing Depression.

Drugs Like Ozempic Linked To Lower Depression Risk

Depression is linked with a variety of Physical Chronic Conditionsincluding diabetes. In Fact, Suba Data Suggest that People with Diabetes are Twice as Likely as People Without Diabetes to Also Have Depression.

A Study Published in the ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE In February 2025 Compared How Different Types of Diabetes Medication May Affect Depression Risk in People With This Metabolic Condition.

IT FOUND THAT GLUCAGON-Like Peptide-1 Receiver Agonists (LPG-1 Drugs) Like Ozempic May Be Linked To Lower Depression Risk Compared To Other Diabetes Drugs, particularly dipeptidyl peptida-4 inhibitors (DPP4I) Like Januvia.

Specifically, Study Participants Taking GLP-1 Drugs HAD A 10% Lower Risk of Depression Than Participants Taking DPP4I Medication.

Andres Splenser, MD, An Endocrinologist at Memorial Hermann, Who Was Not Involved in This Study, Suggesta The Link May has submissive to do with the Relationship Between Mood and Appetite, Among Other Potential Factors.

“Mood and appetite,” I explained, “Are Celly Related (Think of Stressful Eating Or Eating When We Are Sad, ‘Comfort Food’), and a Benefit of (LPG-1 Drugs) is that they help control Appetite and satiety Choices and Become Healthier. “

“So, The Modest Improvement in Depression Seen in the Study May Be Related to Weight Loss, Improved Blood Sugars, (Fewer Diabetes) Symptoms, and Likely An Overal Sense of Patients Getting Healthier,” Splenser Hypothesized.

Eating Oranges May Lower Depression Risk by 20%

We already know that diet plays an important role in keeping depression at bay, and a study published in the journal Microbiome in November 2024 hectares A Little deeper into submity of the spectifies.

The Study Found That People Who Eat An Orange Day Day May Lower Eser Depression Risk by as 20%.

Raaj Mehta, MD, MPH, An Instructor in Medicine At Harvard Medical School, A Physician At Massachusetts General Hospital, and Lead Author of This Study, Stated in A Press Releases that just “One Medium Orange A Day” May do the Trick.

The Research, Which relied on data from More than 32,000 Women from the Nurses’ Health Study II, Further Explained That The Lowered Risk May Be Due To Gut Microbiome Changes.

MEHTA and HIS COLLEAGUES FOUND A LINK BETWEEN CITRUS FRUIT CONSUMPTION AND AN INCREASED OF 15 DIFFERENT BACTERIAL SPECIES IN THE GUT MICROBIOME, INCLUDING Faecalibacterium prausnitzii.

Low Levels of F. Prausnitzii in the gut are Linked to depressionso increasing levels of this bacterium May Help Prevent Depression.

MEHTA NOTED IN THE PRESS DELEASE THAT:

“(T) He Effect Sems to Be Specific to citrus. WHEN WE LOOK AT PEOPLE’S TOTAL FRUIT OR VEGABLE CONSUMPTION, OR AT OTHER INDIVIDUAL Fruits Such As Apples Or Bananas, We Don’t See Any Relationship Between Intake And Risk of Depression. ”

Moderate-to-vigorous exercise may keep depression, brain conditions at bay

Last But Not Least, Exercise continues to emerge as an important factor in Protecting Brain and Mental Health.

Research Due to Be present at the American Academy of Neurology’s 77th Annual Meeting in Early April 2025-And Which is yet to undergo peer review-you Dementia and Depression.

Looking at the Medical Data of More than 73,000 Older Adults, The Refers Who driving and Even Sleep Disorders, Compared to More Sedentary Peers.

Co-Lead Author of The Study Jia-Yi Wu, MD, A Research from Huashan Fudan University in Shanghai, China, Told MNT that “Unlike Genetic predisposits, sedentary behavior is a modifiable risk factor.”

“Our Finding Underscores The Urgent Need for Behavioral and Environmental Changes To Promote More Active Lifestyles,” She Added.

“Both ‘Reduary Sedentary Behavior’ and ‘Increaseing Physical Activity’ (Guidelines) Are Equally Important. For Office Workers, The Elderly, and Individuals With Chronic Deseodas, Reduary Sedentary Behavior Is More Feasible and Safer Than Hatching in Vigorous Intellous Physical Activity. ”

-Jia-Yi Wu, MD

Speaking to MNTDavid Merrill, MD, PHD, A Board Certified Geriatric Psychiatrist at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Ca, and Singleton Endowed Chair in Integrative Brain Health, Who Was Not Involved in This Study, Emphasized That “The Fact Shat Physical Activity Are Linked To A Lower Risk of Multiple Neuropsychiatric Conditions, From Dementia to Depression, Highlights Just Howerful Movement is for Protecting the Brain. ”