A Tasty Way to Enhance Manchester Bone Health Cherries!
Aging bones. We cannot escape signs of aging, and our bones reveal our age. As we age, we lose bone density. Some of us find that we have osteoarthritis of bone. We all would love to escape aging and bone loss and osteoarthritis, but truth be told: many of us will not. New information that tart cherries may help block bone loss and osteoarthritis and improve bone health is welcome news to Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. They may be a tasty way for our Manchester chiropractic patients to do what they can to keep their bones healthy!
BONE LOSS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, often leads to disability. There is no cure nor effective treatment yet found to halt it explains one set of researchers. NSAIDs and analgesics help with the pain but not with the course of osteoarthritis. Using drugs sometimes brings about some adverse side effects for some patients over time which lead a set of researchers to see what else may be beneficial. In their review of peer-reviewed articles, they reported that nutrition can better osteoarthritis symptoms. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries has seen this often in its Manchester chiropractic practice! As these researchers found, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate “robustly” delay the progression of knee osteoarthritis. While diet changes to improve lipid and cholesterol numbers, boost vitamin levels and address overweight issues are beneficial in osteoarthritis care, adding these two nutrients is, too. (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries has more information on them both.
CONSUMING TART CHERRIES
A likely tasty way to supplement the diet for spine care is eating tart cherries. In this springtime in the US that finds the cherry trees in bloom, now is the perfect time for this new information about the benefits of cherries. But how much of a good thing like tart cherries is healthy and beneficial? Of late, researchers explain that tart cherry may be a natural alternative to drug therapy to prevent bone loss in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and others. They explain that tart cherry protected bone structure from inflammation-induced bone loss and (unlike infliximab, a common drug) moderately improved the decline in bone stiffness. (2) That’s beneficial! The researchers advised that tart cherry may be useful to avoid future fragility fractures due to highly chronic inflammation. (2) Further, another set of researchers note how the immune and endocrine systems have a role in age-related bone loss. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and prebiotic foods like tart cherries can potentially neutralize this happening. In assessing 5% and 10% Montmorency tart cherry intake, researchers found significantly greater bone thickness in patients receiving the cherry than the control group patients. They concluded that cherry supplementation (5% and 10%) bettered bone mineral density down to the trabecular and cortical bone microarchitecture! (3) All from cherries! Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries sees this as a simple way to help and protect bone and is certain our Manchester chiropractic patients will, too!
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Albano describes his treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee with nutrition and Cox® Technic flexion-distraction inspired protocols for taking care of it on The Cox® Table and easing osteoarthritic pain.
Schedule a Manchester chiropractic appointment today at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. We can check the condition of your bone and your risk of age-related bone loss and cherry-related improvement! Taking care of aging bones may be quite tasty!
