The wonder of a single daily multivitamin!
Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but taking
a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It is basic and
beneficial, specifically in terms of delivering B
vitamins which are reported to help with cognitive
decline and memory in older adults. 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 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 support
for the advantage of such supplementation in healthy and
at-risk participants in terms of mental (like felt
stress, concentration, general mental health, decreased
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 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’s a worthwhile change! Further,
the researchers documented that participants
still used the multivitamins on a routine
basis: 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 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 higher
than those who didn’t. (2) Another study reported
similar outcomes 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! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre and you will have a talk
at your next Toronto 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 make
new cells, particularly red blood cells. B9 is folate, the
natural form of B9 (in contrast to the synthetic version referred
to 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 Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
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 Toronto 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!