West Des Moines Chiropractic Spinal Care Treatment Plan: Nutritional Tea!
Drink for health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Skeletal pain arising from aging-related conditions responds well to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa has nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our West Des Moines 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 recent study described 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 superior method of determining risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated 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 requires attention to quantity and quality of skeletal muscle mass which is where where green tea comes into play. Green tea has catechins that help maintain healthy joints and skeletal muscle by reducing inflammatory mediators. (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa hopes you might enjoy some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in a variety of types. Another new article reports 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 taken 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) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is on the hunt for some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan.
West Des Moines CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, West Des Moines chiropractic care at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Executive Chiropractic of Iowa’s use of Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
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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 West Des Moines chiropractic appointment now. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your way to potentially better knees afflicted with osteoarthritis and healthier skeletal and joint systems.
