Inflammation is good and normal…in certain
circumstances like defending a part of the body that is injured or infected.
Inflammation is not beneficial...like when it hangs
around too long. Inflammation is a cellular level event and may contribute to a multitude of chronic diseases: cardiovascular,
gastrointestinal, lung, mental, metabolic, neurodegenerative, and more. (1)
Satterwhite Chiropractic works to lessen inflammation’s
effect on the health of our Oxford
chiropractic patients dealing with issues like
back pain, headache/migraine, depression and even cognitive issues associated
with Alzheimer’s. An anti-inflammatory diet plays a
role in this effort.
INFLAMMATION LINKED TO BACK PAIN, DEPRESSION, ALZHEIMER’S…
A systematic review and meta-analysis of existing
medical studies concerning the role of inflammation and
depression found that a pro-inflammatory diet was related
to a bigger risk of depression symptoms
and diagnosis contrasted with those who chose an
anti-inflammatory diet. (2) Another study suggested a connection
between low back pain and pro-inflammatory diets as well. A study of 7346
people described that those who said they followed a highest inflammatory diet had higher risk of reporting
low back pain, too. (3) Connections between diet, nutrition and Alzheimer’s
disease have been published. The good news is that
nutrition was written to be able to control
the immune system and even modify 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 projected to
affect 14.4% of people and ranked as the largest
contributor to disability in people over 50 years of age. Migraine is studied
a lot 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 related
to the role of dietary interventions are few, but a recent
data search found that Ketogenic diet, modified Atkins diets, and low glycemic
diets may improve mitochondrial function and energy metabolism, reduce
CGRP (calcitonin gene related peptide) level, balance serotonin,
and subdue neuroinflammation. Via inflammation and
irregular hypothalamic function, obesity and headaches (migraines too) may be linked. The inflammatory link appeared in the published papers. Dietary interventions like supplementing
with essential fatty acids (decreasing omega-6
and boosting omega-3 which were documented to affect inflammation)
were discussed as helpful. (5) Satterwhite Chiropractic
knows the power diet and nutrition may have in disease issues
like migraine, back pain, depression, and cognition.
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET
Satterwhite Chiropractic also knows many of us don’t like
the word diet. It often reminds us of things what we can’t
have. A good diet allows a lot of good food though. Basic guidelines
for an anti-inflammatory diet design consist of eating
lean meat, eggs, fish, fruit,
legumes, coffee, tea, honey, vegetables and plain dairy
like milk, yogurt, hard cheeses, kefir with limited intake 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 handle this type of diet!
CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on the Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how inflammation and the immune system work and how
chiropractic care and the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management may well help.
Schedule your next Oxford
chiropractic visit with Satterwhite Chiropractic. If inflammation has overstayed its good and normal welcome, we can talk about taking some steps toward a better
anti-inflammatory diet.