Advise That Multivitamins Aren’t a “Slam Dunk” for Cognition

March 2024

Older adults will ask whether multivitamins are beneficial for cognition.

That’s because new evidence suggests taking a multivitamin daily for 2 to 3 years slows memory loss and cognitive decline versus placebo.

This is based on 3 substudies of the big COSMOS trial in generally healthy adults age 60 or older...and pooled analysis of these data.

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