Drink your way to health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Skeletal pain arising from aging-related conditions responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Apple Country Chiropractic offers
nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our Williamson
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 new
study described how height loss and vertebral fractures in
postmenopausal women were linked. The researchers concluded
that age rather than the height loss was suggested to be the superior
way to determine vertebral
fracture risk. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation documented
to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the victim
of these
diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. Sarcopenia’s loss of strength and
muscle mass necessitates attention to quantity and quality
of skeletal muscle mass. This is where green tea comes
into play. Green tea has catechins that help maintain
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by reducing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Apple Country Chiropractic believes you may enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in many
forms. An additional recent article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients benefitted from a mixture
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited
anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers suggested that natural ingredients provide
a rational role in the management of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study 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 decreased pain. (5) Rosmarinic
acid is extracted from the woody, perennial herb, rosemary. it’s 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) Apple Country Chiropractic is on the hunt for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Williamson chiropractic
treatment plan.
Williamson CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Williamson chiropractic
care at Apple Country Chiropractic is gently relieving. In combination
with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Apple Country Chiropractic’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Peter Meyer on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
integration of cervical spine disc herniation.
Schedule your Williamson 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.