Groton Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use

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.

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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.

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!

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