Wellness

[granddi]

This is from Washington Post but you must log in.

A daily multivitamin — an inexpensive, over-the-counter nutritional supplement — may help slow memory loss in people ages 60 and older, a large nationwide clinical trial suggests.

The research, a collaboration between scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Columbia University, appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on Wednesday.

It was the second such multivitamin clinical study within the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) — a larger body of research examining the health effects of certain dietary supplements — to reach the same conclusion.

The most recent study found that those taking multivitamins showed an estimated 3.1 fewer years of memory loss compared with a control group who took a placebo. Put another way, the multivitamin group was an estimated 3.1 years “younger” in terms of their memory function than the placebo group.

[on the bay]

That's nice to know.

I remember several years ago "they" said that multi vitamins really didn't help much but recommendations for everything from food to sunscreen etc seem to change every decade or so.

Anyway it can't hurt, even if amounts aren't maybe enough to make a difference.

But you know what?

I love the gummies and if a good brand, it can't hurt right?!

Like eating candy every day without the candy!

Anyway, thanks for posting about it @granddi!

[spent2much]

@on the bay  I have those gummies, too... Kirkland from Costco - multivitamins and calcium.  So I get to eat 4 gummies every morning.  They're delish, don't you think?

[feline groovy]

I saw this positive news elsewhere and hope they do more studies.

I've taken a daily multivitamin for decades.  I research the ones best for my body and health conditions, then consider recommendations and reviews. 

I can't get all the necessary nutrients (and their recommended amounts) from just food and beverages, especially as I don't always eat a well-balanced diet.  

[hckynutjohn]

Don't know anything about this study. What I do know is it had to be hundreds, if not more, people over 60 from all walks of life. Definitely had to be a couple of decade study. 

Guess they use Cognitive Testing to come up with these conclusion. Claims such as this?

hckynut 🇺🇸

[Still Raining]

Read the study folks!

3,500 people were randomly assigned a placebo or Centrum Silver for three (3) years and given the ModRey test each year.

[Mindy D]

This study used Centrum Silver. For those that want to know more, the study link in the OPs post is to a summary of this study. If you want to know more details about the outcomes, which demographic groups saw which effects and how the study was conducted, I'm supplying the complete study here. It's not a long read. Be careful when reading because TWO parts of the study are discussed. You want to focus on the memory and cognition part that only used a multivitamin and mineral supplement. 

 https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12767

[Mindy D]

Centrum is already capitalizing on the results of the study. The newer packaging will reflect this and the minis in Centum Adults 50+ are sold out just about everywhere. This package doesn't say Silver on it. I'm not sure how it will look when the newest bottles come in. See below: "Big News. Clinically shown to support cognitive health in older adults.COSMOS-mind Study, 2022"

[Mindy D]

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@on the bay wrote:

That's nice to know.

I remember several years ago "they" said that multi vitamins really didn't help much but recommendations for everything from food to sunscreen etc seem to change every decade or so.

Anyway it can't hurt, even if amounts aren't maybe enough to make a difference.

But you know what?

I love the gummies and if a good brand, it can't hurt right?!

Like eating candy every day without the candy!

Anyway, thanks for posting about it @granddi!

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@on the bay @Those were primarily meta analyses of studies about life expectancy. 

[Mindy D]

The vitamin and mineral amounts inside the red lines were the amounts used in this study.

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12767