This study is relevant due to a growing prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military men and civil population and the need to improve nutrition as part of complex therapy and rehabilitation from this pathology.
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the possibilities and prospects of using specialized food products (vitamin and mineral combinations and probiotics) in complex therapy and rehabilitation from posttraumatic stress disorder.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Domestic and foreign publications from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MedLine, and PubMed databases were analyzed.
RESULTS
The review provides data on the efficacy of specialized food products — vitamin and mineral combinations and probiotics designed for correction of physiological and psychological reactions in PTSD. Vitamin and mineral combinations containing increased vitamin B dosages plus to a complete set of vitamins and administered for a long period regulate psychological symptoms in people staying in extreme conditions and lacking vitamins and minerals. The study analyzed the vitamin and mineral combination proposed by the Federal Research Center of Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Food Safety. Its intake for 1—6 months improves the vitamin status and reduces the symptoms of stress and anxiety.The impact of probiotics on the correction of human microbiome, the emotional, cognitive, systemic, and central spheres of psychophysiological activity was analyzed. The article offers the results of using probiotics in people performing professional duties under ecological and professional stress in the conditions of High North, a pressurized closed object, as a mean of nutritional-metabolic rehabilitation under high physical loads. The studies have shown higher working capacity, shorter rehabilitation after high physical loads, and improved psychophysiological functioning parameters.
CONCLUSION
The domestic and foreign experience of using vitamin and mineral combinations and microbiome correction products — probiotics in the dietary structure of people with PTSD allows considering them as a promising and physiological component of restoring the psycho-physiological functioning of the body.
