New York City Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
The wonder of a single daily multivitamin! Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but taking a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and beneficial, specifically in terms of getting B vitamins which are reported to assist with cognitive decline and memory in older adults. Nutrition is important. Rosenberg Wellness Center encourages our New York City chiropractic patients to show us their daily multivitamin to ensure that it has all the proper minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite minimal and easy and yet quite effective. A new systematic research literature review on the effects of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation resulted in backing the benefit of such supplementation in healthy and at-risk participants in terms of mental (like felt stress, concentration, general mental health, decreased anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo boosted the memory in older adults. At 1-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed 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 alteration. That’s a worthwhile change! Further, the researchers detailed that participants still used the multivitamins routinely: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. That is great! It’s important to take the multivitamin every day to get the most benefit. Blood samples that were taken in 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 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 higher than those who didn’t. (2) Another study showed similar results that taking a multivitamin for 3 years increased episodic memory, global cognition, and executive function in older adults. Those with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those who didn’t have that. (3) This is promising for those with cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Rosenberg Wellness Center and you will have a talk at your next New York City 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 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.
Schedule your New York City 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.
