Malverne 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 Malverne diabetic patients need to address. The latest research on diabetes and the disc signifies that vitamin D may help with the health of the disc. Malverne Health & Wellness is prepared to do just that for Malverne back pain patients as well as Malverne diabetic patients who also have Malverne 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) Malverne Health & Wellness 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 want Vitamin D to do their job right. Malverne Health & Wellness urges Malverne diabetic and non-diabetic patients similarly to take care of these cells nutritionally and with Malverne 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. The glucose status didn’t influence non-degenerated discs. (2) Malverne degenerated discs react in a different way than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Malverne Health & Wellness is certain because Malverne Health & Wellness sees it daily in caring for our Malverne back pain patients.

Oxygen Consumption Rates and the Disc

The degenerative intervertebral disc has a significantly 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 affects the disc’s cellular behavior and even the nutritional state of the disc’s tissue as nutrients are distributed to the disc through 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 safeguard and care for the Malverne degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.

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