Auburn 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 taking a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and beneficial, specifically in terms of getting B vitamins which are reported to assist 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 proper minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite minimal and easy as well as quite effective. A new 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 boosted the memory in older adults. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly better immediate recall. The researchers estimated that this multivitamin use improved memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That is a worthwhile change! Further, the researchers recorded 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 essential to take the multivitamin daily to get the best effect. Blood samples that were obtained in a subset of participants showed 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 with a history of cardiovascular disease were better than those who did not. (2) Another study reported 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 without. (3) This is encouraging of 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 positives 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 form 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.
Make your Auburn chiropractic appointment today. We’ll talk about how just one multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
