Carrolltown Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
One multivitamin supplement daily. That makes things simple! Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but taking a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It is basic and beneficial, especially in terms of delivering B vitamins which are described to help with cognitive decline and memory in older adults. Nutrition is important. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation encourages our Carrolltown chiropractic patients to share with us their daily multivitamin to ensure that it has all the proper minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite minimal and easy as well as quite effective. A new systematic research literature review on the effects of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation showed backing the advantage of such supplementation in healthy and at-risk participants in terms of mental (like perceived stress, concentration, overall mental health, reduced anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo increased the memory in older adults. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers estimated that this multivitamin use enhanced memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory change. That is an important change! Additionally, the researchers reported that participants still used the multivitamins routinely: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. Not bad! It’s essential to take the multivitamin daily to get the best effect. Blood samples that were obtained in a subset of participants found rises in folate, vitamin B12 and serum 25(OH) vitamin D. One of the study’s co-authors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston said that “multivitamin supplementation holds promise as a safe, accessible, and affordable approach to protecting cognitive health in older adults.” Outcomes for participants with a history of cardiovascular disease were greater than those who did not. (2) Another study reported similar results that taking a multivitamin for 3 years increased episodic memory, global cognition, and executive function in older adults. Participants with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those without. (3) This is promising for those with cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation and you will have a chat at your next Carrolltown chiropractic appointment about your cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin quality, and the gains of multivitamin supplementation for you!
WHY B VITAMINS?
The body utilizes B vitamins to create new cells, especially red blood cells. B9 is folate, the natural form of B9 (as opposed to the synthetic version referred to as folic acid) the body can use in circulation. Methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) is a water-soluble type of natural B9 folate. Look for these. A good multivitamin with the B vitamins may be your friend! We can talk about yours.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses the important role of B vitamins in a particular spinal condition known as myelopathy and its neck and arm pain that may be treated with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. We’ll discuss how just one multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
