Fort Wayne Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
The wonder of a single daily multivitamin! 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 getting B vitamins which are reported to help with cognitive decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic encourages our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients to show 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 showed support for the benefit 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 boosted older adults’ memory. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use enhanced memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory change. That is a valuable change! Additionally, the researchers detailed that participants still used the multivitamins routinely: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. That’s pretty good! It’s essential to take the multivitamin daily to get the best effect. Blood samples that were taken 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 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 didn’t. (2) Another study showed similar outcomes 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 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! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic and you will have a chat at your next Fort Wayne chiropractic visit 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 create new cells, particularly 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 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.
Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment now. We’ll talk about how just one multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
