Nutrition is definately an environmental influence on idiopathic scoliosis, but it's role and impact are poorly understood.

 

Newer research indicates selenium may be a major player in the nutritional future of scoliosis treatment and studies have identified concerns with levels of copper and zinc as well.  The conversation needs to extend well beyond minerals as well.  Vitamin K seems to have some sort of connection with scoliosis, but that is very unclear at this point.

 

Here are 2 pdf's of studies that focused on nutrition and scoliosis.  More,  much more, work needs to be done in this field.

 

Nutrition_as_an_environmental_factor_in_the_etiology_of_idiopathic_scoliosis.pdf

 

 

Changes_of_selenium_copper_and_zinc_content_in_hair_and_serum_of_patients_with_idiopathic_scoliosis.pdf