A researcher who considered himself the "ultimate skeptic" about supplemental vitamins says that his own research ended up convincing him to reconsider his views., Columbia aging brain researcher Adam Brickman said that until six years ago, when he and his colleagues began a study that tested whether multivitamins could improve memory recall in people over the age of 60, he hadn't taken a supplement since he was a kid.
had similar results but involved both a daily multivitamin and daily supplements of cocoa extract, which health food types claim can improve cognition"When we start seeing that kind of consistency across well-designed studies, it certainly helps convince me — the ultimate skeptic — that we're on to something real," the Columbia researcher toldWhile there's still a lot more research that needs to be done to figure out why these cognitive improvements appear to be happening,...