Along with helping to lower the costs of health care, findings show that chiropractic care (as well as other wellness-based care) is able to positively influence behaviors and well-being. Lately, though, new evidence has shown that chiropractic adjustments can actually affect the chemistry of biological processes (on a cellular level). Thus, chiropractic care merged with genetics.
According to a study, it was found that chiropractic care can actually alter the basic processes in oxidative stress and DNA repair. Such findings scientifically explain the positive effects that chiropractic patients experience. Although more research is still pending to illustrate chiropractic care’s role in biological processes, present findings highlight chiropractic care’s effectiveness.
The research focused on looking at serum thiol levels of patients who were not under chiropractic care versus those who were receiving either short-term or long-term chiropractic care. Serum thiol acts as primary antioxidants (measuring human health status). The test provides a substitute estimate of DNA’s repair enzyme activity that is associated with lifespan health. A wide variety of patients could benefit from long-term chiropractic care, for it could repair abnormal physiological states. Those who were symptom-free during chiropractic treatment had higher average serum thiol levels, while those who had an ongoing illness had lower levels. The patients without symptoms also had greater serum thiol levels (even more than the normal wellness values).
The stressors (physical, emotional, chemical) that someone experiences throughout life impinges on the way the nervous system works. It has been shown that nerve function has an effect on oxidative stress and cellular-level DNA recovery. According to experts, oxidative stress (free radicals that are churned in the metabolism) affects how we develop diseases and how we age. DNA’s ability to repair itself is affected by oxidative stress; in this way, oxidative stress is a damaging agent. DNA repair is one of the ways to fix any damage that is brought on by the environment.
