Juneau Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D
The intervertebral disc is a complex and key part of the spine. It allows pain-free motion of the spine, or not. If the disc degenerates, spinal motion deteriorates, and pain often materializes. This is even more likely for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more concern Juneau diabetic patients need to deal with. The newest research on diabetes and the disc indicates that vitamin D may help with the health of the disc. Aurora Chiropractic Center is here to do just that for Juneau back pain patients as well as Juneau diabetic patients who also have Juneau 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 circulated by cells that control specific interactions with other cells). (1) Aurora Chiropractic Center bets you will agree that it is stunning how the health of the disc comes down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is composed! Those cells need Vitamin D to do their job properly. Aurora Chiropractic Center urges Juneau diabetic and non-diabetic patients similarly to take care of these cells nutritionally and with Juneau chiropractic spinal manipulation with Cox Technic.
Glucose Status and the Disc
The glucose status also alters 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 alter non-degenerated discs. (2) Juneau degenerated discs react differently than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Aurora Chiropractic Center is positive because Aurora Chiropractic Center sees it daily in caring for our Juneau back pain patients.
Oxygen Consumption Rates and the Disc
The degenerative intervertebral disc has a notably 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 its tissue’s nutritional status as nutrients are delivered to the disc by the matrix and endplates. This rate of transport of nutrients is influenced by the degenerative state of the disc. (2) So when should Vitamin D be taken to protect and care for the Juneau degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.
Schedule your Juneau chiropractic appointment at Aurora Chiropractic Center to review the health status of your Juneau spinal discs and how Vitamin D may benefit them whether they are degenerated or not.
