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. Moses Chiropractic has
nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our West Palm Beach
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 described 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
way to determine risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation known
to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the sufferer
of the inflammatory and degenerative aspects of these diseases. The loss of strength
and muscle mass that accompanies sarcopenia requires 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) Moses Chiropractic believes you may enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in many
forms. An additional recent article reports
that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a mixture
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which were found to inhibit inflammation.
The researchers wrote that natural ingredients provide
a rational role in the care of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A report of how spearmint teas affected
knee osteoarthritis discovered that a commercial spearmint tea bettered
stiffness and physical disability while a spearmint tea brewed from a high-rosmarinic
acid (high-rosA) variety significantly decreased 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) Moses Chiropractic is on the hunt for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to enhance the West Palm Beach chiropractic
treatment plan.
West Palm Beach CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, West Palm Beach chiropractic
care at Moses Chiropractic is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Moses Chiropractic’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Moses 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
incorporation of cervical spine disc herniation.
Schedule your West Palm Beach chiropractic
appointment today. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees afflicted with osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.