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But studies are starting to suggest older adults may derive subtle memory benefits from taking them..
The data convinced a neuroscientist who studies aging brains to start taking a multivitamin...
Professor Adam Brickman, who studies the aging brain at Columbia University, told Insider he hadn't popped a multivitamin since he was a kid, when he started his most recent study of multivitamins for memory loss, roughly six years ago...
"I started taking multivitamins the day we ran the analyses, and saw the results, and I take 'em every morning," he said.. Older adults may benefit more from vitamins than young people..
"We're not suggesting that people should get their vitamin and nutrient intake from supplements the primary source of that should be from whole and healthy foods," Brickman said.. Still, this growing body of research on the benefits of multivitamins supports the idea that it can't hurt for older adults to take them, if they want to...
