A Tasty Way to Enhance Groton 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 enjoy not having to deal with aging and bone loss and osteoarthritis, but truth be told: many of us will not. New research about how tart cherries may help prevent bone loss and osteoarthritis and improve bone health is refreshing news to Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. They may be a tasty way for our Groton chiropractic patients to eat their way to healthier bones!
BONE LOSS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, often precedes 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 brings about some adverse side effects which guided a set of researchers to check into what else may help. In their analysis of peer-reviewed articles, they concluded that nutrition can better osteoarthritis symptoms. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has seen this often in its Groton 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 levels are beneficial in osteoarthritis care, including these two nutrients is, too. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 blooming cherry trees everywhere, it 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 stop bone loss in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and others. They report that tart cherry protected bone structure from inflammation-induced bone loss and (unlike infliximab, a common drug) moderately improved the decrease in bone stiffness. (2) That is advantageous! The researchers suggested 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 play a role in age-related bone loss. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and prebiotic foods like tart cherries can potentially offset this happening. In assessing 5% and 10% Montmorency tart cherry intake, researchers found significantly greater bone thickness in patients using the cherry than the control group patients. They concluded that cherry supplementation (5% and 10%) increased bone mineral density down to the trabecular and cortical bone microarchitecture! (3) All from cherries! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office appreciates this simple way to help and protect bone and is sure our Groton chiropractic patients will, too!
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Albano details his treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee with nutrition and Cox® Technic flexion-distraction inspired protocols for treating it on The Cox® Table and alleviating osteoarthritic pain.
Schedule a Groton chiropractic appointment today at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. We can check the condition of your bone as well as your risk of age-related bone loss and cherry-related improvement! Taking care of aging bones may be quite tasty!
