A Tasty Way to Enhance San Jose Bone Health Cherries!
Aging bones. None of us can evade signs of aging, and our bones tell our age. As we age, we lose bone density. Some of us develop osteoarthritis of bone. We all would love to escape aging and bone loss and osteoarthritis, but truth be told: many of us will not. New research about how tart cherries may help prevent bone loss and osteoarthritis and improve bone health is welcome news to Chiropractic Solutions. They may be a tasty way for our San Jose chiropractic patients to do what they can to keep their bones healthy!
BONE LOSS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, often precedes disability. There is no cure nor effective treatment yet discovered to halt it explains one set of researchers. NSAIDs and analgesics help with the pain but not with the course of osteoarthritis. Using drugs results in some adverse side effects which lead a group of researchers to check into what else may be beneficial. In their analysis of peer-reviewed articles, they reported that nutrition can improve osteoarthritis symptoms. Chiropractic Solutions has seen this often in its San Jose chiropractic practice! As these researchers discovered, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate “robustly” delay the progression of knee osteoarthritis. While diet changes to improve lipid and cholesterol numbers, enhance vitamin levels and address overweight issues are beneficial in osteoarthritis care, adding these two nutrients is, too. (1) Chiropractic Solutions has more information on them both.
CONSUMING TART CHERRIES
A likely tasty way to supplement the diet for spine care is consuming tart cherries. In this springtime in the US that finds blooming cherry trees everywhere, it’s the ideal time for this new information about the benefits of cherries. But how much of a good thing like tart cherries is healthy and beneficial? Recently, researchers explain that tart cherry may be a natural alternative to drug therapy to stop bone loss in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and others. They explain that tart cherry shielded bone structure from inflammation-induced bone loss and (unlike infliximab, a common drug) moderately improved the decline in bone stiffness. (2) That’s positive! The researchers suggested that tart cherry may help avoid future fragility fractures in the presence of highly chronic inflammation. (2) Further, another set of researchers note how the immune and endocrine systems play a role in age-related bone loss. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and prebiotic foods like tart cherries can possibly neutralize this occurrence. In assessing 5% and 10% Montmorency tart cherry intake, researchers found significantly greater bone thickness in patients receiving the cherry than the control group patients. They concluded that cherry supplementation (5% and 10%) increased bone mineral density down to the trabecular and cortical bone microarchitecture! (3) All from cherries! Chiropractic Solutions appreciates this simple way to improve bone and is certain our San Jose chiropractic patients will, too!
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Albano details his treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee with nutrition and Cox® Technic flexion-distraction inspired protocols for taking care of it on The Cox® Table and relieving osteoarthritic pain.
Schedule a San Jose chiropractic appointment today at Chiropractic Solutions. We can assess the condition of your bone and your risk of age-related bone loss and cherry-related improvement! Managing aging bones may be very tasty!
