Groton Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
One multivitamin supplement daily. That makes things easy! Not everyone likes to take a lot of pills, but using a daily 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. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office encourages our Groton chiropractic patients to show 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 benefit of such supplementation in healthy and at-risk participants in terms of mental (like felt stress, concentration, overall mental health, decreased anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo boosted the memory in older adults. At 1-year follow-up, older multivitamin users demonstrated significantly superior immediate recall. The researchers estimated that this multivitamin use boosted memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That’s a worthy change! Further, the researchers documented that participants still used the multivitamins pretty well: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. That is great! It’s important to take the multivitamin every day to get the most benefit. Blood samples that were taken 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 higher than those who did not. (2) Another study reported similar outcomes that taking a multivitamin for 3 years enhanced episodic memory, global cognition, and executive function in older adults. Those with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those who didn’t have that. (3) This is promising for 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 talk 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!
WHY B VITAMINS?
The body utilizes B vitamins to make new cells, especially red blood cells. B9 is folate, the natural form of B9 (in contrast 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 describes the important role of B vitamins in a specific 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 now. We’ll talk about how just one multivitamin a day can help you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
