Millville Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D

The intervertebral disc is an intricate 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 probable for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more issue Millville diabetic patients need to tackle. The latest research on diabetes and the disc reveals that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. Wilson Family Chiropractic is here to do just that for Millville back pain patients as well as Millville diabetic patients who also have Millville 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) Wilson Family Chiropractic bets you will 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 comprised! Those cells crave Vitamin D to do their job right. Wilson Family Chiropractic urges Millville diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike to care for these cells nutritionally and with Millville 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. The glucose status didn’t influence non-degenerated discs. (2) Millville degenerated discs react in a different way than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Wilson Family Chiropractic is confident because Wilson Family Chiropractic sees it daily in caring for our Millville 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 different at the cellular level. This oxygen consumption rate factor affects the behavior of the disc’s cells and even its tissue’s nutritional status as nutrients are passed through 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 consumed to safeguard and care for the Millville degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it is not.

Schedule your Millville chiropractic appointment at Wilson Family Chiropractic to discuss the health status of your Millville spinal discs and how Vitamin D may be of benefit to them whether they are degenerated or not.