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Spine and Back Pain and Depression and Cognition Helped by Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Inflammation is good and normal…in certain circumstances like defending a part of the body that is injured or infected. Inflammation is detrimental...like when it persists too long. Inflammation is a cellular level event and may be a factor in a variety of chronic diseases: cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, lung, mental, metabolic, neurodegenerative, and more. (1) Chiropractic Solutions works to decrease inflammation’s effect on the health of our San Jose chiropractic patients experiencing issues like back pain, headache/migraine, depression and even cognitive issues associated with Alzheimer’s. An anti-inflammatory diet has a role in this effort.

INFLAMMATION LINKED TO BACK PAIN, DEPRESSION, ALZHEIMER’S…

A systematic review and meta-analysis of current medical studies concerning the role of inflammation and depression reported that a pro-inflammatory diet was related to a greater risk of depression symptoms and diagnosis contrasted with those who chose an anti-inflammatory diet. (2) Another study recommended a link between low back pain and pro-inflammatory diets as well. A study of 7346 people revealed that those reporting the highest inflammatory diet had higher risk of saying they have low back pain, too. (3) Connections between diet, nutrition and Alzheimer’s disease have been reported. The good news is that nutrition was described as being able to control the immune system and even alter the neuroinflammatory processes related to Alzheimer’s and age-related cognition issues. (4) These descriptions demonstrate just how extensive inflammation can be.

…EVEN MIGRAINE

Migraine as primary headache is estimated to affect 14.4% of people and ranked as the greatest contributor to disability in people over 50 years of age. Migraine is studied a great deal as to what its mechanism is but still continues to be a bit of a mystery. Researchers summarized that many factors are involved: vascular function, trigeminovascular pathway activation, pro-inflammatory and oxidative stats may add to migraine pain. Studies associating migraine to the role of dietary interventions are not many, but a newer data search found that Ketogenic diet, modified Atkins diets, and low glycemic diets may improve mitochondrial function and energy metabolism, decrease CGRP (calcitonin gene related peptide) level, balance serotonin, and subdue neuroinflammation. Via inflammation and irregular hypothalamic function, obesity and headaches (migraines too) may be related. The inflammatory link came out in the published papers. Dietary interventions like the intake of essential fatty acids (reducing omega-6 and increasing omega-3 which were documented to affect inflammation) were described as beneficial. (5) Chiropractic Solutions knows the power diet and nutrition may have in disease issues like migraine, back pain, depression, and cognition.

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET

Chiropractic Solutions also knows many of us don’t like the word diet. It often brings to mind what we can’t eat. A good diet allows a lot of good food though. Basic guidelines for an anti-inflammatory diet design incorporate eating eggs, coffee, tea, fish, lean meat, legumes, honey, vegetables and plain dairy like milk, yogurt, hard cheeses, kefir with limited consumption of red meat and other dairy and sugar while avoiding canned/processed food, sweetened drinks, and alcohol. (6) We are confident our chiropractic patients can manage this type of diet!

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how inflammation and the immune system work and how chiropractic care and the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management may be beneficial.       

Schedule your next San Jose chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Solutions. If inflammation has overstayed its good and normal welcome, we can talk about taking some steps toward a better anti-inflammatory diet. 

 
Chiropractic Solutions shares new studies about the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diets for back pain sufferers as well as those with depression and cognitive decline issues. 
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