Drink for health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Aging-related
skeletal pain responds well
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has
nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our Groton
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 recent
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 better
way to determine 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 sufferer
of the inflammatory and degenerative aspects of these diseases. 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 foster
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by decreasing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office believes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in many
types. An additional recent 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 management of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study of how spearmint teas affected
knee osteoarthritis found 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 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) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Groton chiropractic
treatment plan.
Groton CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Groton chiropractic
care at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is gently relieving. In combination
with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
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 Groton chiropractic
appointment now. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees bothered by osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.