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. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center presents
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our Manahawkin
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 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
method of determining vertebral
fracture risk. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was linked with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a condition documented
to decrease 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 requires 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center hopes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in a variety of
forms. Another new article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a combination
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which were shown to inhibit inflammation.
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 influenced
knee osteoarthritis found that a commercial spearmint tea bettered
stiffness and physical disability while a spearmint tea brewed from a high-rosmarinic
acid (high-rosA) variety significantly reduced pain. (5) Rosmarinic
acid is extracted 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Manahawkin chiropractic
treatment plan.
Manahawkin CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Manahawkin chiropractic
care at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Manahawkin Chiropractic Center’s use of
Cox Technic helps spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Manahawkin Chiropractic Center
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.
Make your Manahawkin chiropractic
appointment soon. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees afflicted with osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.