Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation Reduces Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

NaPier Z, Kanim LEA, Arabi Y, Salehi K, Sears B, Perry M, Kim S, Sheyn D, Bae HW, Glaeser JD · Medical Science Monitor

Reduced disc degeneration on the study's structural measures — the same fatty acids acting on a different cartilaginous tissue, which is worth knowing precisely because the disc is not articular cartilage and behaves differently.

Population

Animal model of intervertebral disc degeneration

Intervention

Dietary omega-3 supplementation

Comparator

Standard diet

Limitations

Animal work in the spine. Disc degeneration and articular cartilage loss share vocabulary and little else.