Minster Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D

The intervertebral disc is a complex and essential 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 issue Minster diabetic patients need to deal with. The latest research on diabetes and the disc indicates that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. Minster Chiropractic Center is here to do just that for Minster back pain patients in additional to Minster diabetic patients who also have Minster 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) Minster Chiropractic Center bets you will 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 comprised! Those cells need Vitamin D to do their job well. Minster Chiropractic Center encourages Minster diabetic and non-diabetic patients similarly to take care of these cells nutritionally and with Minster 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 did not affect non-degenerated discs. (2) Minster degenerated discs react differently than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Minster Chiropractic Center is positive because Minster Chiropractic Center sees it daily in caring for our Minster 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 influences the behavior of the disc’s cells and even its tissue’s nutritional status as nutrients are circulated 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 taken to protect and care for the Minster degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.

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