Importance of a nutritional factor in the changes in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in a human under neuro-emotional stress
Bychkov, V.P.; Mosyakina, L.I.; Khokhlova, O.S.
Kosmicheskaia Biologiia i Aviakosmicheskaia Meditsina 22(1): 13-17
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0321-5040 PMID: 3361828 Document Number: 307017
Two experiments were performed on 16 test subjects (13 men and 3 women) to study stress-effects on the blood content of sugar and cholesterol. The test subjects were given a nutritionally balanced diet of canned food-stuffs. The caloric value of the diet was adequate to energy expenditures. In the first experiment, the test subjects were also given vitamin E, nicotinic acid and other vitamins constituting the polyvitamin complex Aerovit. In the second experiment, they were additionally supplemented with calcium and potassium salts, glucose and phosphatid concentrate. The stress-agent was a test in the rotating chair in the first experiment and a psychologic test (mental work within a limited period of time to reach success or failure) in the second experiment. The content of sugar and cholesterol before and after the stress-effects did not differ significantly. This can be attributed to the prophylactic effect of the nutritional factor on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in an emotionally stressed man.