Drink your way to health? Yes, when
the drink is tea! Aging-related
skeletal pain responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Chiropractic Solutions presents
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our San Jose
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 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 better
method of determining risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation documented
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) Chiropractic Solutions believes you may enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in many
forms. Another recent article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients benefitted from a mixture
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which were found to inhibit inflammation.
The researchers wrote that natural ingredients have
a rational role in the management of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study of how spearmint teas influenced
knee osteoarthritis found 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 extracted 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) Chiropractic Solutions is on the hunt for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the San Jose chiropractic
treatment plan.
San Jose CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, San Jose chiropractic
care at Chiropractic Solutions is gently relieving. In combination
with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Chiropractic Solutions’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
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.
Make your San Jose chiropractic
appointment soon. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees bothered by osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.