San Jose 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 probable for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more issue San Jose diabetic patients need to address. The newest research on diabetes and the disc points out that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. Chiropractic Solutions is prepared to do just that for San Jose back pain patients in additional to San Jose diabetic patients who also have San Jose 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) Chiropractic Solutions bets you’ll agree that it is astonishing how the health of the disc gets down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is composed! Those cells need Vitamin D to do their job properly. Chiropractic Solutions urges San Jose diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike to take care of these cells nutritionally and with San Jose chiropractic spinal manipulation in the form of 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. Glucose status has no effect on non-degenerated discs. (2) San Jose degenerated discs respond differently than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Chiropractic Solutions is sure because Chiropractic Solutions sees it daily in caring for our San Jose 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 changes the behavior of the disc’s cells and even its tissue’s nutritional status as nutrients are distributed to the disc via 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 safeguard and care for the San Jose degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment at Chiropractic Solutions to review the health status of your San Jose spinal discs and how Vitamin D may benefit them whether they are degenerative or not.
