San Jose Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
The wonder of a single multivitamin each day! 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 delivering B vitamins which are described to help with cognitive decline and memory in older adults. Nutrition is important. Chiropractic Solutions encourages our San Jose chiropractic patients to share with us their daily multivitamin to ensure that it has all the proper minerals and vitamins!
MULTIVITAMIN BENEFIT
Multivitamin supplementation may be quite minimal and easy as well as quite effective. A recent systematic review of research literature on the effects of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation resulted in backing the advantage of such supplementation in healthy and at-risk participants in terms of mental (like sensed stress, concentration, overall mental health, decreased anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo boosted older adults’ memory. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users demonstrated significantly better immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use enhanced memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That is an important change! Further, the researchers detailed that participants still took 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 every day to get the best effect. Blood samples that were taken in a subset of participants showed 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 said 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 higher than those who did not. (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 make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Chiropractic Solutions and you will have a chat at your next San Jose 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 uses B vitamins to create new cells, particularly 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.
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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.
Make your San Jose 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.
