Manahawkin Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
The wonder of a single multivitamin each day! 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 getting B vitamins which are described to help with cognitive decline and memory in older adults. Nutrition is important. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center encourages our Manahawkin 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 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 advantage of such supplementation in healthy and at-risk participants in terms of mental (like sensed stress, concentration, overall mental health, decreased anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo enhanced older adults’ memory. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users demonstrated significantly superior immediate recall. The researchers estimated that this multivitamin use boosted memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory change. That is a valuable change! Further, the researchers recorded that participants still used the multivitamins pretty well: 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 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 with a history of cardiovascular disease were better than those who did not. (2) Another study showed similar results 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 without. (3) This is promising for those with cardiovascular disease to take a multivitamin with B vitamins! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center and you will have a talk at your next Manahawkin chiropractic appointment about your cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin quality, and the positives 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 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 discusses 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 Manahawkin chiropractic appointment soon. We’ll discuss how just one multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
