Drink for health? Yes, when
the drink is tea! Aging-related
skeletal pain responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Hollstrom & Associates Inc offers
nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our Largo
chiropractic patients.
AGING-RELATED SKELETAL, CARTILAGE, AND JOINT DISEASES
With aging come skeletal risks like disc height loss and changes
like the two joint and muscle diseases called osteoarthritis and sarcopenia. A new
study looked at the interaction of height loss and vertebral
fractures in postmenopausal women. The researchers decided
that age rather than the height loss was suggested to be the better
method of determining vertebral
fracture risk. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was linked with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation documented
to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the victim
of these
diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. The loss of strength
and muscle mass that accompanies sarcopenia 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) Hollstrom & Associates Inc hopes you might enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea is available in many
forms. An additional new article reports
that knee osteoarthritis patients benefitted from a mixture
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which were found to inhibit inflammation.
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 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 reduced 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) Hollstrom & Associates Inc is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to enhance the Largo chiropractic
treatment plan.
Largo CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Largo chiropractic
care at Hollstrom & Associates Inc is gently relieving. In combination
with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Hollstrom & Associates Inc’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc
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 Largo chiropractic
appointment today. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees afflicted with osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.