Richmond Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
A single multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things simple! Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but using a daily multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s 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. Johnson Chiropractic encourages our Richmond 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 new systematic review of research literature on the effects of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation showed backing the benefit of such supplementation in healthy and at-risk participants in terms of mental (like sensed stress, concentration, general mental health, reduced anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo boosted older adults’ memory. At 1-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly superior immediate recall. The researchers estimated 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 reported that participants still used the multivitamins routinely: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. Not bad! It’s essential to take the multivitamin every day 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 with a history of cardiovascular disease were greater than those who did not. (2) Another study reported similar outcomes 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 encouraging of those with cardiovascular disease to take a multivitamin with B vitamins! Johnson Chiropractic and you will have a chat at your next Richmond 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 make new cells, especially red blood cells. B9 is folate, the natural form of B9 (in contrast 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 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 Richmond 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.
