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. Malverne Health & Wellness has
nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our Malverne
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 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 situation known
to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the sufferer
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. 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) Malverne Health & Wellness hopes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in a variety of
types. An additional recent article reports
that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a combination
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited
anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers suggested that natural ingredients have
a rational role in the care 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) Malverne Health & Wellness is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Malverne chiropractic
treatment plan.
Malverne CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Malverne chiropractic
care at Malverne Health & Wellness is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Malverne Health & Wellness’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Malverne Health & Wellness
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.
Make your Malverne 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.