Largo Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
One multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things simple! 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, specifically in terms of getting B vitamins which are reported to assist with cognitive decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Hollstrom & Associates Inc encourages our Largo chiropractic patients to show us their daily multivitamin to be sure it has all the proper minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite simple and yet quite effective. A recent systematic review of research literature 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, general mental health, decreased anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo enhanced the memory in older adults. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly superior immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use improved memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory change. That’s an important change! Further, the researchers reported 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 important to take the multivitamin daily to get the most benefit. Blood samples that were obtained in 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 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 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. Those with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those without. (3) This is promising for those with cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Hollstrom & Associates Inc and you will have a chat at your next Largo chiropractic visit about your cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin quality, and the advantages of multivitamin supplementation for you!
WHAT’S WITH B VITAMINS?
The body uses B vitamins to make new cells, particularly red blood cells. B9 is folate, the natural form of B9 (as opposed 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 specific 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 Largo chiropractic appointment today. We’ll discuss how just one multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
