Drink your way to health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Skeletal pain arising from aging-related conditions responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Spine & Sports Rehab Center has
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our Baton Rouge
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 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 vertebral
fracture risk. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a condition known
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 requires attention to quantity and quality
of skeletal muscle mass. This is where green tea comes
into play. Green tea contains catechins that help maintain
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by reducing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Spine & Sports Rehab Center believes you may enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in many
forms. An additional new article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients benefitted from a mixture
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which were shown to inhibit inflammation.
The researchers suggested that natural ingredients have
a rational role in the management of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A report of how spearmint teas affected
knee osteoarthritis discovered 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 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) Spine & Sports Rehab Center is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to enhance the Baton Rouge chiropractic
treatment plan.
Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Baton Rouge chiropractic
care at Spine & Sports Rehab Center is gently relieving. In combination
with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Spine & Sports Rehab Center’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Spine & Sports Rehab 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 Baton Rouge 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.