West Des Moines Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
One multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things easy! Not everyone likes to take a lot of pills, but taking a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It is basic and beneficial, specifically in terms of getting B vitamins which are described to assist with cognitive decline and memory in older adults. Nutrition is important. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa encourages our West Des Moines 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 backing the benefit of such supplementation in healthy and at-risk participants in terms of mental (like felt stress, concentration, general mental health, reduced anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo enhanced the memory in older adults. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers estimated that this multivitamin use enhanced memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory change. That’s an important change! Further, the researchers reported that participants still used the multivitamins pretty well: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. Not bad! It’s essential to take the multivitamin daily to get the best effect. 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 commented 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 greater than those who didn’t. (2) Another study showed similar outcomes that taking a multivitamin for 3 years improved episodic memory, global cognition, and executive function in older adults. Participants with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those who didn’t have that. (3) This is promising for those with cardiovascular disease to take a multivitamin with B vitamins! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa and you will have a talk at your next West Des Moines chiropractic appointment about your cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin quality, and the gains of multivitamin supplementation for you!
WHAT’S WITH B VITAMINS?
The body utilizes 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 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.
Make your West Des Moines 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.
