How Do Memory Vitamins Work? (And the Best Brain Supplements)

There are a whole bunch of alleged memory vitamins and supplements to help you concentrate and boost your brain function. Unfortunately, there’s also a lot of misinformation, dodgy studies, and things we just don’t know when it comes to which vitamins actually help with memory and concentration. This article will dig into the current research to pick four of the best vitamins and supplements to boost your memory and overall brain function. Vitamin vs Supplement First, let’s talk about the difference between a vitamin and a supplement. Vitamins are simply organic compounds that are necessary in small quantities to sustain life. [1] We’re talking the vitamin A, B, Cs here. Vitamins are in the unprocessed, healthy foods you eat every day and are also available as daily supplements in pill form. Or as chewy, edible cartoon characters. Supplements are just extra pills, liquids, or cartoon characters that you consume in addition to the actual food you eat. Supplements can include but are not limited to vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, hormone building blocks, and other compounds that are synthesized or extracted from natural sources. What Research Says About Vitamins and Supplements Now, we need to talk about the current state of the research on memory vitamins and brain supplements. The only real consensus seems to be that much more research needs to be done to truly answer which vitamins and supplements are best for your memory. Supplements are big business. In 2015, Americans spent 643 million dollars on supplements, and a quarter of Americans over 50 take them regularly. [2] That’s a lot of money spent on an extremely unregulated and under-researched industry. Here’s what we do know: The brain needs vitamins and minerals to function properly. We also have some studies on rats and in small samples of […]

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