Fernandina Beach Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
The wonder of a single daily multivitamin! Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but taking a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It is 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. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic encourages our Fernandina Beach 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 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 enhanced the memory in older adults. At 1-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly better immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use improved memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That is a worthy change! Further, the researchers recorded that participants still took 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 every day to get the best effect. Blood samples that were taken from 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 said 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 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 take a multivitamin with B vitamins! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic and you will have a chat at your next Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment about your cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin quality, and the positives of multivitamin supplementation for you!
WHAT’S WITH 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 known 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 Fernandina Beach 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.
