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MULTIVITAMINS- PART OF THE SOLUTION
ARE YOU OVERLOOKING A SIMPLE SOLUTION?
Amid all the attention being given FDA clearance of dementia medications, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Columbia University have provided some hope for a far simpler and readily available solution: a once a day multivitamin pill. Their most recent study, the Washington Post’s Marlene Cimons reports, “found that those taking multivitamins (Centrum Silver) 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. The latest trial included more than 3,500 participants ages 60 and older who completed web-based assessments of memory and cognition annually over three years. The tasks were recalling words and recognizing novel objects, and a measure of executive control. Compared with the placebo group, participants randomized to multivitamin supplementation did significantly better on immediate recall of words after one year and sustained that benefit for an additional two years of follow-up. Multivitamin use, however, ‘did not significantly affect memory retention, executive function, or novel object recognition’ when compared with placebo use. An earlier study published last fall, conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found a 60 percent slowing of cognitive aging among those who took multivitamins compared with the placebo group. The two studies were independent of each other and had different designs. But, significantly, both were randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials, the ‘gold standard’ of research in determining the efficacy of a drug or medical treatment — directly linking cause and effect.”
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