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Chiropractic Care Helps Body
Physiology and DNA Repair - Study Shows
The March 7, 2005 Medical News Today reported on a study
that shows that chiropractic helps body physiology and
DNA repair. The study, published in the February 18,
2005 scientific periodical, the Journal of Vertebral
Subluxation Research, (JVSR), was a collaboration
between chiropractors and researchers at the University
of Lund in Sweden. In this study researchers found that
chiropractic care could influence basic physiological
processes affecting oxidative stress and DNA repair.
The article noted that serum thiols are primary
antioxidants. Higher antioxidant levels can serve as a
way of measuring human health status and DNA repair
enzyme activity, which has been shown to correlate with
lifespan and aging. In this study researchers measured
serum thiol levels in 21 patients, some of these with a
variety of health issues or pain, who had undergone
short-term chiropractic care. Researchers also evaluated
a group of 25 asymptomatic patients who had undergone
long-term chiropractic care. These results were then
compared to a control group of 30 people who had not
received any chiropractic care.
The study results showed that, as the researchers
expected, patients who were in pain had the lowest
antioxidant levels. However, those patients who were
under longer term chiropractic care had statistically
significant higher antioxidant levels than both the
short term patients with pain, as well as those without
pain who did not receive chiropractic care.
One of the authors, Dr. Christopher Kent, explained,
“Going through life, we experience physical, chemical,
and emotional stress. These stresses affect the function
of the nervous system. We hypothesized that these
disturbances in nerve function could affect oxidative
stress and DNA repair on a cellular level.” Kent
continued, "Oxidative stress, metabolically generating
free radicals, is now a broadly accepted theory of how
we age and develop disease.” |
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