By Mark Smith
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August 14, 2023
Hey everyone: More good news on how to protect your brain function and memory as we age: simply take a multivitamin! “Compared with placebo, participants who took a daily multivitamin and multimineral supplement had significantly better immediate recall at 1 year (P=0.025) and across 4 years of follow-up on average (P=0.011), reported Adam Brickman, PhD, of Columbia University in New York City, and co-authors in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Multivitamins improved memory performance above placebo by the equivalent of 3.1 years of age-related memory change, the researchers estimated. The effect was more pronounced in people with underlying cardiovascular disease.” “ Conclusions: Daily multivitamin supplementation, compared with placebo, improves memory in older adults. Multivitamin supplementation holds promise as a safe and accessible approach to maintaining cognitive health in older age.” https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)48904-6/fulltext https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/dementia/104679?xid=nl_mpt_SR_specialty_update_2023-05-26&eun=g1207968d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SpecialtyUpdate_Neurology_052623_%7BCS:a0M4z00000VOaTBEA1%7D&utm_term=NL_Spec_Neurology_Update_Active_US%20Only Bottom Line: This is a good study that reveals how critical it is to consume vitamins and minerals above and beyond what our diet may supply. This is seemingly because how our environment has been documented to have become laden with toxic chemicals, nanoparticle plastic pollution, pesticide covered foods, nutrient depleted soils, unprecedented levels of stress, reduced air quality, electric smog, and other stresses that require increased nutrients for our bodies to process and repair. Taking a good supplement offers significant protection and is a safe and inexpensive guard against the negative effects of our modern environments. Make sure that your multi has what are called ‘activated B vitamins’ and truly absorbable and/or chelated minerals for optimal protection.