Drink for health? Yes, when
the drink is tea! Aging-related
skeletal pain responds well
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Spinal Care Clinic offers
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our Burlington and Hamilton
chiropractic patients.
AGING-RELATED SKELETAL, CARTILAGE, AND JOINT DISEASES
Skeletal
risks like disc height loss and changes like the two joint and muscle diseases
called osteoarthritis and sarcopenia come with aging. A new
study described 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
way to determine risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was linked with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation known
to decrease quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the sufferer
of these
diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. The loss of strength
and muscle mass that accompanies sarcopenia requires 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) Spinal Care Clinic believes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in a variety of
types. Another recent article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients benefitted from a combination
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited
anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers suggested 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 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 taken 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) Spinal Care Clinic is on the hunt for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to enhance the Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic
treatment plan.
Burlington and Hamilton CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic
care at Spinal Care Clinic is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Spinal Care Clinic’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Spinal Care 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 Burlington and Hamilton 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.