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 delivering B
vitamins which are reported to assist with cognitive
decline and memory in older adults. Nutrition is important. Pflugerville Wellness Center encourages our
Pflugerville 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 minimal and easy
and yet quite effective. A new systematic research literature review on the effects
of high-dose, B-complex multivitamin supplementation resulted in support
for the advantage of such supplementation in healthy and
at-risk participants in terms of mental (like perceived
stress, concentration, overall mental health, reduced
anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared
with placebo enhanced older adults’ memory. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed
significantly better 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 a worthwhile change! Further,
the researchers recorded that participants
still used the multivitamins routinely: 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 obtained from
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 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 reported
similar results that taking a multivitamin for 3 years enhanced
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 promising for those with
cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a
multivitamin with B vitamins! Pflugerville Wellness Center and you will have a chat
at your next Pflugerville chiropractic visit about your
cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin
quality, and the positives of multivitamin
supplementation for you!
WHAT’S WITH B VITAMINS?
The body utilizes B vitamins to make
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.
CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness Center
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 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.
Schedule your Pflugerville chiropractic
appointment today. We’ll discuss how just one
multivitamin a day can help you in so many ways like with your memory
and cognition!