Spine and Back Pain and Depression and Cognition Helped by Anti-Inflammatory Diet
Inflammation is good and normal…in certain circumstances like defending a part of the body that is injured or infected. Inflammation is bad...like when it persists too long. Inflammation is a cellular level event and may be a factor in a multitude of chronic diseases: cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, lung, mental, metabolic, neurodegenerative, and more. (1) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc works to decrease inflammation’s effect on the health of our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients suffering with issues like back pain, headache/migraine, depression and even cognitive issues related to Alzheimer’s. An anti-inflammatory diet has a role in this effort.
INFLAMMATION LINKED TO BACK PAIN, DEPRESSION, ALZHEIMER’S…
A systematic review and meta-analysis of existing medical studies concerning the role of inflammation and depression found that a pro-inflammatory diet was associated with a greater risk of depression symptoms and diagnosis contrasted with those who ate an anti-inflammatory diet. (2) Another study suggested a connection between low back pain and pro-inflammatory diets as well. A study of 7346 people revealed that those reporting the highest inflammatory diet had higher risk of reporting low back pain, too. (3) Links between diet, nutrition and Alzheimer’s disease have been reported. The good news is that nutrition was described as being able to regulate the immune system and even alter the neuroinflammatory processes related to Alzheimer’s and age-related cognition issues. (4) These descriptions show just how extensive inflammation can be.
…EVEN MIGRAINE
Migraine as primary headache is estimated to affect 14.4% of people and rated as the greatest contributor to disability in people over 50 years of age. Migraine is examined a great deal as to what causes it but still remains somewhat of a mystery. Researchers summarized that many factors play a role: vascular function, trigeminovascular pathway activation, pro-inflammatory and oxidative stats may contribute to migraine pain. Studies associating migraine to the role of dietary interventions are few, but a newer data search found that Ketogenic diet, modified Atkins diets, and low glycemic diets may improve mitochondrial function and energy metabolism, reduce CGRP (calcitonin gene related peptide) level, balance serotonin, and subdue neuroinflammation. Via inflammation and irregular hypothalamic function, obesity and headaches (migraines too) may be related. The inflammatory link appeared in the published papers. Dietary interventions like the intake of essential fatty acids (decreasing omega-6 and boosting omega-3 which were documented to affect inflammation) were discussed as helpful. (5) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc understands the power diet and nutrition may have in disease issues like migraine, back pain, depression, and cognition.
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET
Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc also knows many of us don’t like the word diet. It often brings to mind what we can’t eat. A good diet allows a lot of good food though. Basic guidelines for an anti-inflammatory diet design incorporate eating eggs, coffee, tea, fish, lean meat, legumes, vegetables, honey and plain dairy like milk, yogurt, hard cheeses, kefir with limited consumption of red meat and other dairy and sugar while avoiding canned/processed food, sweetened drinks, and alcohol. (6) We are confident our chiropractic patients can handle this type of diet!
CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how inflammation and the immune system work and how chiropractic care and the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management may be beneficial.
Schedule your next Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment with Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc. If inflammation has overstayed its good and normal welcome, let’s talk about taking some steps toward a more beneficial anti-inflammatory diet.
