Fort Wayne Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
A single multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things simple! Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but taking a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and beneficial, especially in terms of delivering B vitamins which are reported to assist 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 ensure that it has all the proper minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite simple and yet 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 sensed stress, concentration, overall mental health, reduced anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo increased the memory in older adults. At 1-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use boosted memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That is a worthy change! Further, the researchers detailed that participants still used the multivitamins pretty well: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. That is great! It’s essential to take the multivitamin on a daily basis to get the best effect. Blood samples that were obtained from 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 higher than those who didn’t. (2) Another study reported 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 promising for those with cardiovascular disease to take a multivitamin with B vitamins! Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc and you will have a talk at your next Fort Wayne 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 uses B vitamins to create new cells, especially red blood cells. B9 is folate, the natural form of B9 (as opposed 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.
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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.
Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment now. We’ll discuss how just one multivitamin a day can help you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
