The wonder of a single multivitamin each day!
Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but using a daily multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and
beneficial, especially in terms of delivering B
vitamins which are reported to help with cognitive
decline and memory in older adults. Nutrition is important. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office encourages our
Groton chiropractic patients to share with us their
daily multivitamin to ensure that it has all the right
minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite simple
and yet quite effective. A recent systematic review
of research literature on the effects
of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation resulted in backing the advantage of such supplementation in healthy and
at-risk participants in terms of mental (like felt
stress, concentration, general mental health, decreased
anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared
with placebo enhanced older adults’ memory. At 1-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed
significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers approximated
that this multivitamin use boosted memory performance
by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That
is a worthwhile change! Further,
the researchers reported that participants
still used the multivitamins pretty well: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8%
at 1 year. That’s pretty good! It’s important
to take the multivitamin every day to get the best effect. Blood samples that were obtained in
a subset of participants found increases 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 commented that “multivitamin
supplementation holds promise as a safe, accessible, and affordable approach to
protecting cognitive health in older adults.” Outcomes for participants who
had a history of cardiovascular disease were greater
than those who did not. (2) Another study showed
similar outcomes that taking a multivitamin for 3 years enhanced
episodic memory, global cognition, and executive function in older adults. Participants
with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those without. (3) This is encouraging of those with
cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a
multivitamin with B vitamins! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office and you will have a chat
at your next Groton chiropractic appointment about your
cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin
quality, and the advantages of multivitamin
supplementation for you!
WHAT’S WITH B VITAMINS?
The body utilizes B vitamins to create
new cells, particularly red blood cells. B9 is folate, the
natural form of B9 (in contrast to the synthetic version known 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.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
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.
Schedule your Groton chiropractic
appointment soon. We’ll talk about how just one
multivitamin a day can help you in so many ways like with your memory
and cognition!