Oxford 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 starts. This is even more possible for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more concern Oxford diabetic patients need to tackle. The newest research on diabetes and the disc points out that vitamin D may help with the health of the disc. Satterwhite Chiropractic is here to do just that for Oxford back pain patients as well as Oxford diabetic patients who also have Oxford 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) Satterwhite Chiropractic bets you will agree that it is stunning how the health of the disc gets down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is comprised! Those cells crave Vitamin D to do their job right. Satterwhite Chiropractic urges Oxford diabetic and non-diabetic patients similarly to care for these cells nutritionally and with Oxford chiropractic spinal manipulation in the form of 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) Oxford degenerated discs react differently than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Satterwhite Chiropractic is confident because Satterwhite Chiropractic sees it every day in caring for our Oxford 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 influences the behavior of the disc’s cells and even the nutritional state of the disc’s tissue as nutrients are passed through 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 consumed to protect and care for the Oxford degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it is not.
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic appointment at Satterwhite Chiropractic to review the health status of your Oxford spinal discs and how Vitamin D may be of benefit to them whether they are degenerative or not.
