What We Know About Multivitamins and Memory

A new study reported that adults 60 and older who took a daily multivitamin for two years scored higher on memory and cognitive tests than those who took a placebo  a rare example of a clinical trial finding that a nutritional supplement might actually benefit healthy people.
It suggests that multivitamins can be a safe, affordable and accessible approach to protecting cognitive health in older adults, said Dr. Chirag Vyas, a psychiatric epidemiologist at Mass General Brigham in Boston and a lead author of the study, published Thursday in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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