One multivitamin supplement daily. That makes things easy!
Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but taking
a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and
beneficial, especially in terms of getting B
vitamins which are reported to help with cognitive
decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Chiropractic Care encourages our
West Palm Beach chiropractic patients to share with 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 resulted in support
for the benefit 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 better immediate recall. The researchers estimated
that this multivitamin use enhanced memory performance
by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That’s a valuable change! Further,
the researchers detailed that participants
still used the multivitamins routinely: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8%
at 1 year. Not bad! It’s important
to take the multivitamin on a daily basis to get the best effect. Blood samples that were obtained from
a subset of participants found 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 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 promising for those with
cardiovascular disease to take a
multivitamin with B vitamins! Chiropractic Care and you will have a chat
at your next West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment about your
cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin
quality, and the benefits of multivitamin
supplementation for you!
WHAT’S WITH B VITAMINS?
The body utilizes B vitamins to make
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.
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
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 West Palm Beach chiropractic
appointment today. We’ll talk about how just one
multivitamin a day can help you in so many ways like with your memory
and cognition!