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. Vancouver Spine Care Centre has
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our Vancouver
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 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
way to determine vertebral
fracture risk. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was linked with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation known
to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the victim
of these
diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. The loss of strength
and muscle mass that accompanies sarcopenia necessitates 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) Vancouver Spine Care Centre hopes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in a variety of
forms. Another new article reports
that knee osteoarthritis patients benefitted from a mixture
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited
anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers wrote that natural ingredients have
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 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) Vancouver Spine Care Centre is on the hunt for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Vancouver chiropractic
treatment plan.
Vancouver CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Vancouver chiropractic
care at Vancouver Spine Care Centre is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Vancouver Spine Care Centre’s use of
Cox Technic helps spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Vancouver Spine Care Centre
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 Vancouver 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.