Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc Describes the Role of Vitamin C for a Healthy Immune System

The immune system works hard. Like a car or plane or boat, it needs fuel to keep working hard. The fuel for the immune system is an extensive list of micronutrients, the most talked about being vitamin C, and for good reason. Vitamin C plays an instrumental role in a healthy functioning immune system. In addition to spine pain care, Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc asks our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients to pay attention to their body’s fuel levels of vitamins like vitamin C. Nutrition is important!

LOW VITAMIN C LEVELS

Researchers examined what factors contribute to low vitamin C status and learned that vitamin C levels are impacted mostly by dietary intake. Diet can be influenced by cultural aspects like traditional cooking methods with traditional core foods like grains which have little vitamin C to give. Environmental factors play a role like geographic region, season, climate, and pollution. Demographic factors like age, race, sex, and socioeconomic factors like deprivation, education, institutionalization, and social class. Health factors like smoking, body weight, pregnancy/lactation, genetic variants, as well as diseases like severe infection or cardiovascular disease or cancerimpact C levels. So many issues seem to contribute to vitamin C levels and need to be considered when creating global recommendations for dietary intake. (1) Vitamin C levels are not studied well enough around the world especially in low- and middle- income countries. Relying on completed studies, researchers report that vitamin C deficiency is not unusual in low-, middle- and even in subgroups of people in high-income settings. (2) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc may not be able to address the vitamin C levels of those around the world, but we are available to our Fort Wayne chiropractic friends!

ROLE OF VITAMIN C IN IMMUNE FUNCTION

Vitamin C is a well-known essential factor in immune function and epigenetic inflammatory modifications. Vitamin C is best obtained by regular dietary intake. 41.8% of participants in the 2003-2005 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) has inadequate levels of vitamin C. Deficient vitamin C plasma levels were found in males, adults aged 20-59, Black and Mexican Americans, smokers, those who have higher BMI, and those with middle and high poverty to income ratio and food insecurity. These people are at greater risk for inflammatory driven disease with little or no signs of low vitamin C levels. (3) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc urge our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients recognize if they are at risk for low nutrient levels and work to raise them to be as healthy as possible!

IMMUNE SYSTEM

Health and well-being is a careful balance of many issues; one is a good functioning immune system. Researchers have set intake levels of micronutrients like vitamins A, C, D, E and zinc, but many people are low. Deficient levels of such nutrients impair the immune system and lessen its response when it is most required. In a study of 26,282 adults over age 19 in the 2005-2016 NHANES study, a “prevalence of inadequacy” was seen for all of these:

• 45% for vitamin A
• 46% for vitamin C
• 95% for vitamin D
• 84% for vitamin E
• 15% for zinc

Supplementation is described as beneficial while a call for better understanding of the interactions of multiple nutrient shortages on the immune system is also made. This would help identify optimal levels of intake for at-risk people. (4) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is ready to analyze the vitamin C levels of our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients and assist them in adjusting it as needed.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the role chiropractic may play in immune system health as well as how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management works.

Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment today. Together, we can explore just how well you are fueling your body to keep the immune system working optimally!