St Peters Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D
The intervertebral disc is a complex 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 starts. This is even more likely for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more issue St Peters diabetic patients need to deal with. The latest research on diabetes and the disc reveals that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. Old Mill Chiropractic is here to do just that for St Peters back pain patients as well as St Peters diabetic patients who also have St Peters 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) Old Mill Chiropractic bets you’ll 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 comprised! Those cells need Vitamin D to do their job correctly. Old Mill Chiropractic urges St Peters diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike to tend these cells nutritionally and with St Peters chiropractic spinal manipulation with Cox Technic.
Glucose Status and the Disc
The glucose status also influences 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) St Peters degenerated discs respond in a different way than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Old Mill Chiropractic is positive because Old Mill Chiropractic sees it every day in taking care of our St Peters 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 affects the disc’s cellular behavior and even its tissue’s nutritional status as nutrients are distributed 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 protect and care for the St Peters degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.
Schedule your St Peters chiropractic appointment at Old Mill Chiropractic to review the health status of your St Peters spinal discs and how Vitamin D may be of benefit to them whether they are degenerated or not.
