A Tasty Way to Enhance Augusta Bone Health Cherries!
Aging bones. None of us can avoid 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 will not. New research about how tart cherries may help prevent bone loss and osteoarthritis and improve bone health is refreshing news to Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic. They may be a tasty way for our Augusta 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 the pain but not with the course of osteoarthritis. Using drugs sometimes brings about some adverse side effects for some patients over time which guided a group of researchers to see what else may help. In their review of peer-reviewed articles, they reported that nutrition can better osteoarthritis symptoms. Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic has seen this often in its Augusta 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, boost vitamin levels and address overweight issues are beneficial in osteoarthritis care, adding these two nutrients is, too. (1) Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic has more information on them both.
CONSUMING TART CHERRIES
A likely tasty way to supplement the diet for spine care is ingesting tart cherries. In this springtime in the US that finds blooming cherry trees everywhere, it’s the ideal time for this new information about the benefits of cherries. But how much of a good thing like tart cherries is healthy and beneficial? Of late, 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 explain that tart cherry protected bone structure from inflammation-induced bone loss and (unlike infliximab, a common drug) moderately improved the decline in bone stiffness. (2) That is advantageous! The researchers suggested that tart cherry may be useful to avoid future fragility fractures due to highly chronic inflammation. (2) Further, another set of researchers describe how the immune and endocrine systems have a role in age-related bone loss. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and prebiotic foods like tart cherries can possibly offset this happening. In testing 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! Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic sees this as a simple way to improve bone and is sure our Augusta 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 relieving osteoarthritic pain.
Schedule a Augusta chiropractic appointment today at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic. We can assess the status of your bone as well as your risk of age-related bone loss and cherry-related improvement! Taking care of aging bones may be quite tasty!
