{"id":212835,"date":"2025-10-14T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212835\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:48:10","slug":"most-supplements-cant-actually-boost-your-mood-but-these-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212835\/","title":{"rendered":"Most supplements can\u2019t actually boost your mood\u2014but these might"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take the most common ones\u2014multivitamins, vitamin Bs, calming herbal blends, and melatonin<\/a>, also often used to help regulate sleep. They\u2019re widely used, but the research just isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had some trials available, but not enough to make really substantive conclusions,\u201d says Rachael Frost,<\/a> a researcher from the School of Public and Allied Health at Liverpool John Moores University, who led the review.<\/p>\n

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(Will psychedelics ever live up to their hype<\/a>?)<\/p>\n

Omega-3 supplements, long believed to boost mood, didn\u2019t fare much better. Of the 39 studies Frost analyzed, 23 showed no real benefit compared to a placebo. In one trial<\/a>, people took three capsules daily for 12 weeks\u2014and saw no clear improvement in mood. While a few studies reported positive results, the overall evidence isn\u2019t strong enough to consider omega-3s a reliable treatment for depression, according to Frost.<\/p>\n

The supplements showing early promise<\/p>\n

A handful of supplements show early signs of promise\u2014but the evidence remains limited. Herbal supplements like lavender, rhodiola, and lemon balm, as well as micronutrients such as amino acid tryptophan, folic acid, and zinc, have produced encouraging results in small studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take the most common ones\u2014multivitamins, vitamin Bs, calming herbal blends, and melatonin, also often used to help regulate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,130689,130693,130688,137,130687,532,130692,130691,130686,130690],"class_list":["post-212835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-depression-supplements-that-work","tag-depression-treatment-alternatives","tag-do-supplements-work-for-depression","tag-health","tag-natural-remedies-for-depression","tag-nutrition","tag-probiotics-and-depression","tag-st-johns-wort","tag-supplements-for-depression","tag-vitamins-for-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}