The wonder of a single daily multivitamin!
Not everyone likes to take a lot 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. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. encourages our
Auburn 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 minimal and easy
as well as quite effective. A new systematic research literature review on the effects
of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation resulted in 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 1-year follow-up, older multivitamin users demonstrated
significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers approximated
that this multivitamin use improved memory performance
by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory change. That
is an important change! Further,
the researchers documented that participants
still used the multivitamins routinely: 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 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 did not. (2) Another study reported
similar results that taking a multivitamin for 3 years improved
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 take a
multivitamin with B vitamins! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. and you will have a chat
at your next Auburn chiropractic appointment about your
cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin
quality, and the gains of multivitamin
supplementation for you!
WHAT’S WITH B VITAMINS?
The body utilizes B vitamins to make
new cells, particularly 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.
CONTACT Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.
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 Auburn chiropractic
appointment soon. We’ll discuss how just one
multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory
and cognition!