St Peters Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
A single multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things easy! 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 delivering B vitamins which are reported to help with cognitive decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Old Mill Chiropractic encourages our St Peters 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 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 older adults’ memory. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users demonstrated 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 change. That is a worthy change! Further, the researchers reported that participants still used the multivitamins on a routine basis: 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 obtained 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 said 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 better than those who didn’t. (2) Another study showed similar results 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 make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Old Mill Chiropractic and you will have a talk at your next St Peters chiropractic appointment about your cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin quality, and the gains of multivitamin supplementation for you!
WHY B VITAMINS?
The body uses B vitamins to create 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 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 describes 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.
Schedule your St Peters chiropractic appointment soon. We’ll talk about how just one multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
