Toronto Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use

June 15, 2023

A single multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things simple! Not everyone likes to take a lot of pills, but using a daily multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It is basic and beneficial, especially in terms of delivering B vitamins which are described to assist with cognitive decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre encourages our Toronto 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 new systematic review of research literature 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 felt stress, concentration, general 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 demonstrated 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 change. That is a worthwhile change! Further, the researchers detailed that participants still took the multivitamins routinely:  94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. Not bad! It’s important to take the multivitamin every day 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 did not. (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 without. (3) This is encouraging of those with cardiovascular disease to make a daily routine of taking a multivitamin with B vitamins! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre and you will have a chat at your next Toronto chiropractic appointment 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 utilizes B vitamins to make 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 type 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 discusses 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 Toronto chiropractic appointment now. We’ll discuss how just one multivitamin a day can help you in so many ways like with your memory and cognition.

 
Toronto multivitamin picture to demonstrate benefits for memory and cognition