The wonder of a single daily multivitamin!
Not everyone likes to take a lot of pills, but taking
a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and
beneficial, specifically in terms of delivering B
vitamins which are described to help with cognitive
decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Apple Country Chiropractic encourages our
Williamson chiropractic patients to show 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 recent systematic research literature review on the effects
of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation showed support
for the advantage 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 boosted the memory
in older adults. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users demonstrated
significantly improved immediate recall. The researchers approximated
that this multivitamin use improved memory performance
by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That
is an important change! Additionally,
the researchers documented that participants
still used the multivitamins pretty well: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8%
at 1 year. That’s pretty good! It’s essential
to take the multivitamin daily to get the best effect. Blood samples that were taken 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 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 better
than those who didn’t. (2) Another study showed
similar results 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! Apple Country Chiropractic and you will have a chat
at your next Williamson 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 uses B vitamins to create
new cells, especially red blood cells. B9 is folate, the
natural form of B9 (in contrast to the synthetic version known as folic acid) the body can use in circulation. Methyltetrahydrofolate
(5-MTHF) is a water-soluble form of natural B9 folate. Look for these. A good multivitamin
with the B vitamins may be your friend! We can talk about yours.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
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.
Schedule your Williamson 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!