Drink your way to health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Skeletal pain arising from aging-related conditions responds well
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Soft Health and Healing Clinic presents
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our Brooks
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 how height loss and vertebral fractures in
postmenopausal women were linked. 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 situation documented
to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the sufferer
of these
diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. Sarcopenia’s loss of strength and
muscle mass requires attention to quantity and quality
of skeletal muscle mass which is where where green tea comes
into play. Green tea has catechins that help maintain
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by reducing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Soft Health and Healing Clinic hopes you may enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in a variety of
types. An additional new article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a combination
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited
anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers suggested that natural ingredients have
a rational role in the care of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study of how spearmint teas influenced
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’s a polyphenolic compound with antioxidant properties. Polyphenols are written 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) Soft Health and Healing Clinic is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Brooks chiropractic
treatment plan.
Brooks CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Brooks chiropractic
care at Soft Health and Healing Clinic is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Soft Health and Healing Clinic’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Soft Health and Healing Clinic
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.
Make your Brooks 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.