New Roads Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D

The intervertebral disc is an intricate and important part of the spine. It allows pain-free motion of the spine, or not. If the disc degenerates, spinal motion deteriorates, and pain often rises. This is even more possible for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more concern New Roads diabetic patients need to address. The newest research on diabetes and the disc reveals that vitamin D may help with the health of the disc. New Roads Chiropractic Center is here to do just that for New Roads back pain patients as well as New Roads diabetic patients who also have New Roads back pain.

Diabetes, Vitamin D, and the Disc

Diabetic patients with disc degeneration want to take Vitamin D as it prevents and even treats degenerative changes in their discs. How? By improving the content of TGF-β and IGF-1, two influential growth factor cytokines (proteins released by cells that control specific interactions with other cells). (1) New Roads Chiropractic Center bets you will agree that it is amazing how the health of the disc comes down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is comprised! Those cells crave Vitamin D to do their job well. New Roads Chiropractic Center urges New Roads diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike to take care of these cells nutritionally and with New Roads chiropractic spinal manipulation with Cox Technic.  

Glucose Status and the Disc

The glucose status also affects the oxygen consumption rate of degenerated discs: degenerative discs in low glucose have higher oxygen consumption rates and degenerative discs in high glucose have lower oxygen consumption rates. The glucose status did not influence non-degenerated discs. (2) New Roads degenerated discs react differently than non-degenerated ones. Of this, New Roads Chiropractic Center is certain because New Roads Chiropractic Center sees it every day in taking care of our New Roads back pain patients.

Oxygen Consumption Rates and the Disc

The degenerative intervertebral disc has a substantially higher oxygen consumption rate - 3 to 5 times greater - than the non-degenerative, normal human disc.  The degenerative disc is different at the cellular level. This oxygen consumption rate factor modifies the behavior of the disc’s cells and even the nutritional state of the disc’s tissue as nutrients are circulated to the disc by the matrix and endplates. This rate of transport of nutrients is affected by the degenerative state of the disc. (2) So when should Vitamin D be taken to safeguard and care for the New Roads degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it is not.

Schedule your New Roads chiropractic appointment at New Roads Chiropractic Center to review the health status of your New Roads spinal discs and how Vitamin D may be of benefit to them whether they are degenerative or not.