Fort Wayne Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D

The intervertebral disc is an intricate and essential part of the spine. It allows pain-free motion of the spine, or not. If the disc degenerates, spinal motion deteriorates, and pain often occurs. This is even more likely for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more concern Fort Wayne diabetic patients need to tackle. The newest research on diabetes and the disc reveals that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is prepared to do just that for Fort Wayne back pain patients in additional to Fort Wayne diabetic patients who also have Fort Wayne 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) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic bets you’ll agree that it is stunning how the health of the disc gets down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is composed! Those cells crave Vitamin D to do their job right. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic urges Fort Wayne diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike to care for these cells nutritionally and with Fort Wayne chiropractic spinal manipulation in the form of 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. Glucose status has no effect on non-degenerated discs. (2) Fort Wayne degenerated discs respond in a different way than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is certain because Aaron Chiropractic Clinic sees it daily in taking care of our Fort Wayne 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 cellularly different. This oxygen consumption rate factor affects the disc’s cellular behavior and even the nutritional state of the disc’s tissue as nutrients are delivered to the disc through 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 consumed to safeguard and care for the Fort Wayne degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.

Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic to discuss the health status of your Fort Wayne spinal discs and how Vitamin D may benefit them whether they are degenerative or not.