Baton Rouge Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
The wonder of a single daily multivitamin! Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but using a daily multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It is 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. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers encourages our Baton Rouge 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 new systematic research literature review 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, reduced 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 demonstrated significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use enhanced memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory change. That is a worthwhile change! Additionally, the researchers detailed that participants still used the multivitamins pretty well: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. That is great! It’s important to take the multivitamin on a daily basis to get the best effect. Blood samples that were taken in 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 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 showed similar results 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! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers and you will have a chat at your next Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment 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 utilizes B vitamins to make new cells, particularly 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 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 Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment soon. We’ll talk about how just one multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.
