Drink your way to health? Yes, when
the drink is tea! Skeletal pain arising from aging-related conditions responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries offers
nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our Manchester
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 linked with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation documented
to decrease quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the victim
of the inflammatory and degenerative aspects of these diseases. The loss of strength
and muscle mass that accompanies sarcopenia necessitates 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 decreasing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries believes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in a variety of
types. An additional new article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a mixture
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited
anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers wrote that natural ingredients provide
a rational role in the care of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study 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) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Manchester chiropractic
treatment plan.
Manchester CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Manchester chiropractic
care at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries’s use of
Cox Technic helps spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
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
integration of cervical spine disc herniation.
Schedule your Manchester 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.