A Tasty Way to Enhance Minster Bone Health Cherries!
Aging bones. None of us can escape signs of aging, and our bones tell our age. As we age, we lose bone density. Some of us find that we have osteoarthritis of bone. We all would love to escape aging and bone loss and osteoarthritis, but truth be told: many of us won’t. New research about how tart cherries may help prevent bone loss and osteoarthritis and improve bone health is refreshing news to Minster Chiropractic Center. They may be a tasty way for our Minster chiropractic patients to eat their way to healthier bones!
BONE LOSS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, often precedes disability. There is no cure nor effective treatment yet described in published research to stop it explains one set of researchers. NSAIDs and analgesics help with pain relief but not with the course of osteoarthritis. Taking drugs sometimes results in some adverse side effects for some patients over time which guided a set of researchers to check into what else may help. In their review of peer-reviewed articles, they wrote that nutrition can improve osteoarthritis symptoms. Minster Chiropractic Center has seen this often in its Minster chiropractic practice! As these researchers found, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate “robustly” delay the progression of knee osteoarthritis. While diet changes to correct lipid and cholesterol numbers, enhance vitamin levels and address overweight issues are beneficial in osteoarthritis care, including these two nutrients is, too. (1) Minster Chiropractic Center has more information on them both.
CONSUMING TART CHERRIES
A likely tasty way to supplement the diet for spine care is eating tart cherries. In this springtime in the US that finds blooming cherry trees everywhere, it is the perfect time for this new information about the benefits of cherries. But how much of a good thing like tart cherries is healthy and beneficial? Recently, researchers wrote that tart cherry may be a natural alternative to drug therapy to stop bone loss in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and others. They report that tart cherry protected bone structure from inflammation-induced bone loss and (unlike infliximab, a common drug) moderately improved the decrease in bone stiffness. (2) That is positive! The researchers suggested that tart cherry may be useful to avoid future fragility fractures in the presence of highly chronic inflammation. (2) Further, another set of researchers note how the immune and endocrine systems play a role in age-related bone loss. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and prebiotic foods like tart cherries can possibly counter this happening. In trying 5% and 10% Montmorency tart cherry intake, researchers found significantly greater bone thickness in patients using the cherry than the control group patients. They determined that cherry supplementation (5% and 10%) improved bone mineral density down to the trabecular and cortical bone microarchitecture! (3) All from cherries! Minster Chiropractic Center sees this as a simple way to improve bone and is certain our Minster chiropractic patients will, too!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Albano details his care of osteoarthritis of the knee with nutrition and Cox® Technic flexion-distraction inspired protocols for taking care of it on The Cox® Table and easing osteoarthritic pain.
Schedule a Minster chiropractic appointment today at Minster Chiropractic Center. We can assess the status of your bone and your risk of age-related bone loss and cherry-related improvement! Taking care of aging bones may be very tasty!
