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Multivitamins Can Add Sparkle

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/188843.php

The effects of multivitamins are most often researched in the elderly. This is

one of very few studies to assess the relationship between supplementation with

vitamins/minerals and psychological functioning in healthy groups of non-elderly

adults. This study shows how a proprietary multivitamin and mineral supplement

improves mood and mental performance while also reducing stress, mental

tiredness and fatigue in healthy males.

Research into a vitamin and mineral supplement by academics at Northumbria

University shows it improves mood and mental performance while also reducing

stress, mental tiredness and fatigue in healthy males.

In a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study, 215 men in full-time

employment aged between 30 and 55 were given either a proprietary multivitamin

or a placebo for a period of 33 days.

The two groups were tested at the beginning of the study and at the end with a

battery of mood, stress and health questionnaires and with physical and mental

tasks that included mental arithmetic (counting backwards in 3s or 7s from a

random number).

The multivitamin was a B complex, vitamin C and minerals product known as

Berocca® which is manufactured by Bayer Consumer Care, the sponsors of the

study.

Prior to treatment, there were no significant differences between the placebo

and multi-vitamin/minerals groups in performance or ratings for any of the study

outcomes. However, after 33 days supplementation the multivitamin/minerals group

reported significantly improved ratings of general mental health, reduced

subjective stress and increased ratings of 'vigour', with a strong trend towards

an overall improvement in mood. Task performance, in terms of the number of

correct serial-3 subtractions throughout the six repetitions of the cognitive

tasks, and serial-7s during the first repetition, was also improved. This was

accompanied by reduced ratings of 'mental tiredness' before and after the

intense mental processing and a trend towards reduced 'mental fatigue'. The

placebo group showed no significant changes.

The effects of multivitamins are most often researched in the elderly, and very

few studies have assessed the relationship between supplementation with

vitamins/minerals and psychological functioning in healthy groups of non-elderly

adults.

" Overall, these results suggest that improving nutritional status, by

supplementation if necessary, may be beneficial to males within the general

population as a whole, " says Northumbria University's Professor Kennedy,

who led the study.

" The assumption was made here that the men tested enjoyed typical nutritional

status. However, the very fact of being able to improve mood, ratings of mental

health and vigour and aspects of task performance by simple supplementation with

B vitamins, Vitamin C and minerals indicates that the cohort must have been

suffering from less than optimal micronutrient status at the outset. "

" We know that optimum functioning of the central nervous system is dependent on

a wide range of micronutrients, and there is a wealth of evidence from

epidemiological studies that clearly suggest a relationship between

micro-nutrients and psychological functioning.

" Vitamin C for example is the brain's most prevalent antioxidant and is found at

its greatest concentrations in neuron-rich areas. "

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