Cervical Pain? Or Inflam-Aging?
Inflam-aging is triggered by a biological clock that activates in all of us around age 23, but that clock “ticks” much faster than it should for some individuals. You treat their resulting inflammatory symptoms every day.
A primary mechanism of inflam-aging is driven by inflammatory cytokines, such as interferon-gamma, TNF-alpha, and interleukin-6. These are the drivers of fibromyalgia, arthritic pain, vascular disease, obesity, cognitive decline, and really most of the symptoms your patients present.
Picture your 61-year-old male patient with chronic bilateral neck pain. Your chiropractic adjustments help — a little, but only a little. It is time you took a broader view.
In addition to chronic pain, your patient also suffers from chronic fatigue, shows abdominal weight gain, is borderline diabetic, and takes thyroid for Hashimoto’s autoimmune thyroiditis. What do all these conditions have in common? They are all associated with the immune-mediated inflammation gerontologists have termed inflam-aging.
Inflam-aging is associated with a broad array of conditions, just as it is in your patient, whose neck pain is mostly fibromyalgia. Chiropractic care is helpful but will never achieve the clinical results you and the patient desire. It is time for clinical nutrition. You must penetrate deeply into the roots of inflam-aging at the cellular level.
Researchers in the field of gerontology have done just that. They identified a select group of nutrients and some repurposed medicines that specifically affect “the causes of the causes” of inflam-aging. Gerontologists named these therapeutic agents proven to improve both quality and length of life as “rejuvenins.”
There are five rejuvenin nutrients that make the “top ten” effective in ameliorating the core causes of the symptoms you see in your patients every day. Those rejuvenins include carnosine, alpha lipoic acid, N-acetylcysteine combined with glycine, and quercetin.
Inflammatory cytokines drive your patients down the path of inflam-aging, creating pain and other symptoms that send patients to you for help. Gerontology research shows you can help.
Compared to younger subjects, older adults show extreme elevation of many pro-inflammatory cytokines at baseline.
IL-6 is 934% higher.
TNF-α is 116% higher.
C-reactive protein (CRP) is 88% higher.
Endothelial biomarkers of inflammation can be 175% higher.
Supplementation with a blend of rejuvenins lowered IL-6 by 77%, TNF-α by 57%, and CRP by 49%. It also decreased insulin by 55% and insulin resistance by 59%.
The power is yours to use.
Dr. Guy Schenker, a Pennsylvania chiropractor since 1978, developed the Nutri-Spec System of Clinical Nutrition, which eschews symptom-based nutrition in favor of individualized metabolic therapy. Reach us at 800-736-4320, email [email protected], or visitnutri-spec.net.
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