- By 2060, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly one in four Americans will be in an age bracket at elevated risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease unless interventions can help preserve cognitive function before deficits begin
- “Cognitive decline is among the top health concerns for most older adults, and a daily supplement of multivitamins has the potential as an appealing and accessible approach to slow cognitive aging,” said first author Chirag Vyas, MBBS, MPH, instructor in investigation at the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
- Researchers from MGH tested the effects of a daily multivitamin on cognitive changes in a study of 573 participants with in-person visits in the COSMOS trial.
- Results showed a statistically significant benefit for cognition among participants taking the multi-vitamin compared to placebo, suggesting that a multivitamin could help prevent memory loss and slow cognitive aging among older adults.
It seems almost every day there is a new article talking about the increasing rates of memory or cognitive decline. Yet rarely do those articles offer suggestions or recommendations for how to prevent or reduce the risk of developing those issues.
At Your Personal Pharmacy, we firmly believe diet, exercise, and everything else that goes into your body plays a major role in how you feel and how you age. We believe adding supplements into your daily routine can make a difference in how you feel and every day there is new science coming out to support this philosophy. This article and its findings clinically demonstrate the future of achieving wellness will include supplementation in addition to an optimized diet and exercise lifestyle
Even for patients who have an optimized diet, there are just some things you cannot get through diet alone in the optimized quantities and frequencies. Supplements can provide scientifically proven substances, often not available in a patient’s diet, shown to have specific and significant impacts on the way your body functions.
Contact Your Personal Pharmacist to set up a personalized consultation to learn more about what supplement options exist and could be a good fit for you.