Drink for health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Aging-related
skeletal pain responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. New Roads Chiropractic Center offers
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our New Roads
chiropractic patients.
AGING-RELATED SKELETAL, CARTILAGE, AND JOINT DISEASES
With aging come skeletal risks like disc height loss and changes
like the two joint and muscle diseases called osteoarthritis and sarcopenia. A recent
study looked at the interaction of height loss and vertebral
fractures in postmenopausal women. The researchers decided
that age rather than the height loss was suggested to be the superior
method of determining risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a condition known
to decrease quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the sufferer
of the inflammatory and degenerative aspects of these diseases. Sarcopenia’s loss of strength and
muscle mass necessitates attention to quantity and quality
of skeletal muscle mass which is where where green tea comes
into play. Green tea contains catechins that help maintain
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by reducing inflammatory
mediators. (3) New Roads Chiropractic Center believes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in many
forms. An additional new article reports
that knee osteoarthritis patients benefitted from a combination
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited
anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers wrote that natural ingredients provide
a rational role in the management of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A report of how spearmint teas affected
knee osteoarthritis discovered that a commercial spearmint tea improved
stiffness and physical disability while a spearmint tea brewed from a high-rosmarinic
acid (high-rosA) variety significantly reduced pain. (5) Rosmarinic
acid is taken from the woody, perennial herb, rosemary. It
is a polyphenolic compound with antioxidant properties. Polyphenols are reported to be
anti-cancer, anti-tumor cell proliferation, anti-apoptosis (cell death),
anti-metastasis, and anti-inflammatory. Rosmarinic acid is found in plant
species like the mint. (6) New Roads Chiropractic Center is on the hunt for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the New Roads chiropractic
treatment plan.
New Roads CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, New Roads chiropractic
care at New Roads Chiropractic Center is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, New Roads Chiropractic Center’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT New Roads Chiropractic Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Peter Meyer on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
illustrates The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
incorporation of cervical spine disc herniation.
Schedule your New Roads chiropractic
appointment soon. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees afflicted with osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.