La Grande Memory and Cognition Boost with Multivitamin Use
A single multivitamin supplement a day. That makes things easy! Not everyone likes to take a handful of pills, but taking a multivitamin supplement makes a lot of sense. It’s basic and beneficial, specifically in terms of delivering B vitamins which are reported to help with cognitive decline and memory in older folks. Nutrition is important. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC encourages our La Grande 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 and yet quite effective. A recent 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 felt stress, concentration, overall mental health, reduced anxiety), physical, and energy outcomes. (1) Daily multivitamin use compared with placebo enhanced the memory in older adults. At one-year follow-up, older multivitamin users showed significantly superior immediate recall. The researchers approximated that this multivitamin use boosted memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years of aged-related memory alteration. That is a valuable change! Further, the researchers documented that participants still used the multivitamins pretty well: 94.4% at 6 months and 91.8% at 1 year. That’s pretty good! It’s important 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 didn’t. (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! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC and you will have a chat at your next La Grande chiropractic visit 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 utilizes B vitamins to create 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. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
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.
Schedule your La Grande 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.
