Multivitamins on the brain

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Multivitamins could slow brain aging By Alice Park Senior Health Correspondent There’s no shortage of claims and concoctions that promise to keep you young. And the majority are just that—claims with little evidence behind them. But researchers are reporting some encouraging findings about a way to slow brain aging—and it’s backed by some solid data. Scientists at Harvard, Columbia, Wake Forest, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that a multivitamin—the kind sold in pharmacies—can slow age-related cognitive decline in people over 60 by as much as two years. The study compared people taking a daily multivitamin to those taking a placebo and evaluated their performance on a variety of cognitive tests, including ones for memory. The results suggest that while multivitamins may help delay memory loss, focusing on individual vitamins or nutrients, or taking megadoses of them, isn’t necessary, at least for brain health. And as encouraging as the findings are, they don’t mean that relying on multivitamins alone can keep your brain from aging too fast. “Multivitamins and dietary supplements should never be a substitute for a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle,” says Dr. JoAnn Manson, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and co-director of the study. “But it’s possible that they can have a complementary role in maintaining brain health.” READ MORE HERE Share This Story

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