One multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things easy!
Not everyone likes to take a lot of pills, but using a daily multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and
beneficial, especially in terms of getting B
vitamins which are reported to assist with cognitive
decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic encourages our
Montreal 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 showed backing the advantage of such supplementation in healthy and
at-risk participants in terms of mental (like sensed
stress, concentration, general mental health, decreased
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 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 alteration. That
is a valuable 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 most
benefit. 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 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 improved
episodic memory, global cognition, and executive function in older adults. Participants
with cardiovascular disease seemed to benefit more than those without. (3) This is encouraging of those with
cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a
multivitamin with B vitamins! Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic and you will have a chat
at your next Montreal chiropractic visit about your
cognition, your age, your multivitamin supplement routine, your multivitamin
quality, and the advantages of multivitamin
supplementation for you!
WHY B VITAMINS?
The body uses 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 Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic
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.
Make your Montreal chiropractic
appointment now. We’ll talk about how just one
multivitamin a day can benefit you in so many ways like with your memory
and cognition!