Spending long periods of time sitting can have a negative impact on your spinal health. But did you know that your posture can also affect your blood sugar levels as well? Studies show that the way you sit can have a significant impact on your blood glucose levels. Working to improve your posture can have long-term positive effects on your well-being.
Can Poor Posture Affect Your Blood Sugar?
Incorrect and poor posture can exert excessive pressure on your spine. Left uncorrected for a period of time, a strained spine can cause increased thoracic kyphosis, or curvature of the spine.
Increased thoracic kyphosis can lead to chronic lower back pain as well as other abnormal functions within your body. When your body is out of its normal alignment, your central nervous system cannot communicate properly with organs and other bodily functions.
Now consider the number of hours you spend sitting while commuting to and from work, watching TV, or chit-chatting with friends on social media. Extrapolating that over a period of days, weeks, months, and years, you begin to form some picture of what your posture can do to your health in the long term.
Blood sugar regulation is a big deal as it can cause chronic health conditions such as diabetes. In the United States, diabetes is a leading cause of death, and it continues unabated because there is no cure in sight.
While there are many ways of controlling diabetes, many people will never look toward chiropractic care to manage their body’s sugar intolerance. But that is where the posture comes in. Research shows that chiropractic treatment may be an effective way of controlling blood glucose levels, making it a potential diabetes management strategy.
How Chiropractic Can Help You Manage Diabetes
Studies show that the central nervous system and blood sugar levels have a connection. The spine, which is the superhighway of the central nervous system, is the playground of chiropractic care, giving chiropractors an advantage in the manipulation of the central nervous system.
With the right spine alignment, chiropractors can enhance the body’s function, including how it affects the regulation of blood sugar. Chiropractors optimize the nervous system to make it communicate better with other parts of the body, thus allowing for more effective sugar utilization.
According to a recent study, patients who were not using medication and received chiropractic care for one month experienced improvements. Also, in a 2018 study published in the Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research, chiropractors treated a man with thoracic kyphosis and type 1 diabetes with excellent results.
The researchers discovered that after each chiropractic adjustment, the patient’s blood sugar levels dropped within healthy levels without the use of medication. When the study was complete, the patient’s back pain had reduced significantly, and his blood sugar levels had normalized thanks to regular chiropractic adjustments of his spine.
Chiropractic care provides unique access into the body’s control room, the CNS and spine. By adjusting the spine’s vertebrae, chiropractors can correct many problems caused by pinched or irritated nerves. The result is an improvement in all areas of your life and increased health and wellness.
Having Problems With Posture? Try Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic is not the panacea for everything, and it absolutely does not treat disease or diabetes. Chiropractic helps to re-align the spine into its proper orientation so that the nerves of the body can communicate properly with the central nervous system. When that happens, the body is able to function normally, allowing it to produce more insulin, improve digestion, decrease prostate symptoms, and decrease your pain. Chiropractic is not about treating symptoms; it’s all about improving the communication of your nervous system, which in turn allows your body to function at its optimal!
If you’d like to improve your posture and are seeking natural help with regulating your blood sugar levels, schedule a consultation with Somerset Hills Chiropractic in Bernardsville, NJ. In addition to chiropractic adjustments, we offer lifestyle advice and nutritional counseling that can help you take control of your health and wellness.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Brian Wallace
Dr. Glenn Eigenmann
Dr. Raymond Horman
