Drink for health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Aging-related
skeletal pain responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Johnson Chiropractic offers
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our Richmond
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 how height loss and vertebral fractures in
postmenopausal women were linked. The researchers concluded
that age rather than the height loss was suggested to be the superior
method of determining risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was linked with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation known
to decrease quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the victim
of these
diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. Sarcopenia’s loss of strength and
muscle mass necessitates attention to quantity and quality
of skeletal muscle mass which is where where green tea comes
into play. Green tea contains catechins that help maintain
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by decreasing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Johnson Chiropractic hopes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in many
types. An additional recent 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 provide
a rational role in the care of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study of how spearmint teas influenced
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
is 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) Johnson Chiropractic is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Richmond chiropractic
treatment plan.
Richmond CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Richmond chiropractic
care at Johnson Chiropractic is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Johnson Chiropractic’s use of
Cox Technic helps spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Johnson Chiropractic
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
integration of cervical spine disc herniation.
Schedule your Richmond 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.