New York City 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 rises. This is even more probable for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more concern New York City diabetic patients need to address. The latest research on diabetes and the disc points out that vitamin D may help with the health of the disc. Rosenberg Wellness Center is prepared to do just that for New York City back pain patients in additional to New York City diabetic patients who also have New York City 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) Rosenberg Wellness Center bets you’ll agree that it is amazing how the health of the disc comes down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is composed! Those cells want Vitamin D to do their job correctly. Rosenberg Wellness Center urges New York City diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike to tend these cells nutritionally and with New York City chiropractic spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic.
Glucose Status and the Disc
The glucose status also affects 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. The glucose status did not influence non-degenerated discs. (2) New York City degenerated discs react in a different way than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Rosenberg Wellness Center is sure because Rosenberg Wellness Center sees it every day in caring for our New York City 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 cellularly different. This oxygen consumption rate factor influences 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 affected by the degenerative state of the disc. (2) So when should Vitamin D be consumed to protect and care for the New York City degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it is not.
Schedule your New York City chiropractic appointment at Rosenberg Wellness Center to discuss the health status of your New York City spinal discs and how Vitamin D may be of benefit to them whether they are degenerated or not.
