Vancouver Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
A single multivitamin supplement daily. That makes things easy! Not everyone likes to take a lot of pills, but using a daily multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It is basic and beneficial, especially in terms of getting B vitamins which are reported to assist with cognitive decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Vancouver Disc Centers encourages our Vancouver 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 minimal and easy and yet quite effective. A recent systematic review of research literature on the effects of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation showed backing 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 estimated that this multivitamin use improved memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That is an important change! Additionally, the researchers detailed that participants still took the multivitamins routinely: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. That is great! 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 commented 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 who didn’t have that. (3) This is encouraging of those with cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Vancouver Disc Centers and you will have a talk at your next Vancouver chiropractic visit 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, 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.
Make your Vancouver 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.
