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Spine and Back Pain and Depression and Cognition Helped by Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Inflammation is effective and normal…in certain circumstances like defending a part of the body that is injured or infected. Inflammation is damaging...like when it persists too long. Inflammation is a cellular level event and may be a factor in a variety of chronic diseases: cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, lung, mental, metabolic, neurodegenerative, and more. (1) Johnson Chiropractic works to lessen inflammation’s influence on the health of our Richmond chiropractic patients experiencing issues like back pain, headache/migraine, depression and even cognitive issues related to Alzheimer’s. An anti-inflammatory diet plays a role in this effort.

INFLAMMATION LINKED TO BACK PAIN, DEPRESSION, ALZHEIMER’S…

A systematic review and meta-analysis of current medical studies regarding the role of inflammation and depression discovered that a pro-inflammatory diet was associated with a higher risk of depression symptoms and diagnosis contrasted with those who chose an anti-inflammatory diet. (2) Another study recommended a link between low back pain and pro-inflammatory diets as well. A study of 7346 people described that those who said they followed a highest inflammatory diet had higher risk of saying they have low back pain, too. (3) Links between diet, nutrition and Alzheimer’s disease have been published. The good news is that nutrition was described as being able to modulate the immune system and even modify the neuroinflammatory processes related to Alzheimer’s and age-related cognition issues. (4) These descriptions demonstrate just how extensive inflammation can be.

…EVEN MIGRAINE

Migraine as primary headache is projected to impact 14.4% of people and ranked as the largest contributor to disability in people over 50 years of age. Migraine is studied a lot as to what its mechanism is but still remains a bit of a mystery. Researchers summarized that many factors play a role: vascular function, trigeminovascular pathway activation, pro-inflammatory and oxidative stats may impact 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 better mitochondrial function and energy metabolism, decrease CGRP (calcitonin gene related peptide) level, balance serotonin, and subdue neuroinflammation. Via inflammation and irregular hypothalamic function, obesity and headaches (migraines too) may be linked. The inflammatory link emerged in the published papers. Dietary interventions like supplementing with essential fatty acids (decreasing omega-6 and increasing omega-3 which were documented to affect inflammation) were discussed as helpful. (5) Johnson Chiropractic knows the power diet and nutrition may have in disease issues like migraine, back pain, depression, and cognition.

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET

Johnson Chiropractic also knows many of us do not like the word diet. It often reminds us of things what we can’t eat. A good diet allows a lot of good food though. Basic guidelines for an anti-inflammatory diet design include eating eggs, coffee, tea, fish, lean meat, legumes, vegetables, honey and plain dairy like milk, yogurt, hard cheeses, kefir with limited intake 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 manage this kind of diet!

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how inflammation and the immune system interact and how chiropractic care and the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management may well help.       

Make your next Richmond chiropractic appointment with Johnson Chiropractic. If inflammation has hung around past its good and normal welcome, let’s set up a path toward a more beneficial anti-inflammatory diet. 

 
Johnson Chiropractic presents new studies about the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diets for back pain sufferers as well as those with depression and cognitive decline issues. 
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