DAILY MULTIVITAMIN CAN DELAY AGE-RELATED MEMORY LOSS

Study finds that a multivitamin pill a day keeps memory decline at bay

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A breakthrough study has found an affordable way to stave off memory decline: take a daily multivitamin. The three-yearlong study conducted by scientists at Columbia University, and Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard University in the US - found that taking multivitamins for as little as one year can delay age-related memory loss by three years.

"Losing aspects of cognition and thinking ability is one of the things that most bothers people about ageing. Despite that, there are really very few strategies that we know of that can mitigate the effects of ageing on cognition or thinking abilities," Dr Adam M Brickman - leader of the study and professor of neuropsychology at Columbia University in New York - told BBC Science Focus.