Juneau Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
A single multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things simple! 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 assist with cognitive decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Aurora Chiropractic Center encourages our Juneau chiropractic patients to share with us their daily multivitamin to be sure it has all the right minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite minimal and easy as well as 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, general 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 showed significantly better immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use improved memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That is a valuable change! Further, the researchers recorded that participants still took the multivitamins routinely: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. Not bad! It’s essential to take the multivitamin on a daily basis to get the best effect. Blood samples that were obtained 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 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 better 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. Those with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those without. (3) This is encouraging of those with cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Aurora Chiropractic Center and you will have a talk at your next Juneau chiropractic appointment about your cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin quality, and the advantages 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 (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 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 Juneau 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.
