A
single multivitamin supplement daily. That makes things easy!
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, specifically in terms of getting B
vitamins which are reported to assist with cognitive
decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Spinal Care Clinic encourages our
Burlington and Hamilton 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 simple
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 sensed
stress, concentration, overall mental health, reduced
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 improved immediate recall. The researchers approximated
that this multivitamin use boosted memory performance
by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That
is a valuable change! Additionally,
the researchers documented 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 on a daily basis to get the best effect. Blood samples that were taken from
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 higher
than those who did not. (2) Another study reported
similar outcomes that taking a multivitamin for 3 years improved
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 make a daily routine of taking a
multivitamin with B vitamins! Spinal Care Clinic and you will have a talk
at your next Burlington and Hamilton 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 (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.
CONTACT Spinal Care Clinic
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 Burlington and Hamilton 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!