La Grande 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 possible for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more issue La Grande diabetic patients need to deal with. The latest research on diabetes and the disc signifies that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is prepared to do just that for La Grande back pain patients as well as La Grande diabetic patients who also have La Grande 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) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC 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 crave Vitamin D to do their job right. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC urges La Grande diabetic and non-diabetic patients similarly to care for these cells nutritionally and with La Grande chiropractic spinal manipulation with 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 affect non-degenerated discs. (2) La Grande degenerated discs react differently than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is sure because Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC sees it daily in caring for our La Grande 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 different at the cellular level. This oxygen consumption rate factor modifies the behavior of the disc’s cells and even its tissue’s nutritional status 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 safeguard and care for the La Grande degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC to discuss the health status of your La Grande spinal discs and how Vitamin D may benefit them whether they are degenerative or not.
