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 reported to help with cognitive
decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc encourages our
Fort Wayne chiropractic patients to share with us their
daily multivitamin to be sure it has all the proper
minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite simple
as well as quite effective. A recent systematic review
of research literature on the effects
of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation resulted in support
for the advantage 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 increased the memory
in older adults. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users demonstrated
significantly superior immediate recall. The researchers approximated
that this multivitamin use enhanced memory performance
by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That
is an important change! Further,
the researchers recorded 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 on a daily basis to get the best effect. Blood samples that were taken from
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 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 higher
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 who didn’t have
that. (3) This is promising for those with
cardiovascular disease to take a
multivitamin with B vitamins! Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc 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 benefits 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 known 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 Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
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.
Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic
appointment today. We’ll talk about how just one
multivitamin a day can help you in so many ways like with your memory
and cognition!