West Palm Beach Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D

The intervertebral disc is a complex 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 starts. This is even more likely for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more concern West Palm Beach diabetic patients need to tackle. The latest research on diabetes and the disc points out that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. Chiropractic Care is prepared to do just that for West Palm Beach back pain patients as well as West Palm Beach diabetic patients who also have West Palm Beach 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) Chiropractic Care bets you’ll agree that it is astonishing 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 properly. Chiropractic Care urges West Palm Beach diabetic and non-diabetic patients similarly to tend these cells nutritionally and with West Palm Beach chiropractic spinal manipulation with 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. Glucose status has no effect on non-degenerated discs. (2) West Palm Beach degenerated discs respond in a different way than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Chiropractic Care is sure because Chiropractic Care sees it every day in caring for our West Palm Beach 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 modifies the disc’s cellular behavior and even the nutritional state of the disc’s tissue as nutrients are distributed to the disc by 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 West Palm Beach degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.

Schedule your West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment at Chiropractic Care to discuss the health status of your West Palm Beach spinal discs and how Vitamin D may benefit them whether they are degenerated or not.