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. Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation offers
nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our Baton Rouge
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 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 better
method of determining risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a condition known
to reduce 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 foster
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by decreasing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation hopes you may enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in a variety of
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 provide
a rational role in the management of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study of how spearmint teas influenced
knee osteoarthritis discovered 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
is 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) Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation 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 Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation’s use of
Cox Technic helps spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation
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.
Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic
appointment today. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees bothered by osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.