Georgetown Chiropractic Spinal Care Treatment Plan: Nutritional Tea!
Drink your way to health? Yes, when the drink is tea! Aging-related skeletal pain responds well to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Dr. Butwell has nutritional advice like drinking green tea to our Georgetown 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 new study described the interaction of height loss and vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women. The researchers concluded 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 condition documented to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the sufferer of the inflammatory and degenerative aspects of these diseases. The loss of strength and muscle mass that accompanies sarcopenia requires attention to quantity and quality of skeletal muscle mass. This is where green tea comes into play. Green tea contains catechins that foster healthy joints and skeletal muscle by reducing inflammatory mediators. (3) Dr. Butwell believes you might enjoy some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in a variety of forms. Another recent article writes that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a mixture of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited anti-inflammatory properties. The researchers suggested that natural ingredients provide a rational role in the care of osteoarthritis. (4) Another natural option: spearmint tea! A study of how spearmint teas influenced 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 decreased pain. (5) Rosmarinic acid is extracted from the woody, perennial herb, rosemary. It is 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) Dr. Butwell is on the hunt for some high-rosA spearmint tea to enhance the Georgetown chiropractic treatment plan.
Georgetown CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Georgetown chiropractic care at Dr. Butwell is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Dr. Butwell’s use of Cox Technic helps spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Dr. Butwell
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 Georgetown chiropractic appointment now. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your way to potentially better knees bothered by osteoarthritis and healthier skeletal and joint systems.
