We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the
middle of the day to enjoy a quiet
cup of tea away from the bustle of life! (Your Tonawanda
chiropractor would enjoy such a break again!) Teatime
was good for the mind and spirit and most likely
very good for the body. Most days, most of
us just do not have time, but just enjoying tea on the run in a reusable bottle on the commute to your chiropractic appointment at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
can be just right, particularly
if that tea is green.
BENEFITS OF TEA OVERALL
In China, drinking tea is a traditional
lifestyle factor. Not a bad thing! In assessing
the health benefits of tea and its active ingredients for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis,
and rheumatoid arthritis – common bone and joint diseases afflicting
many people – researchers found that tea has potential anti-COX
(cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They concluded
that tea has a vast potential to be helpful in
medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of the different types
of tea properties are identified as to their
synergistic mechanisms. (1) Tea from plants around us presents us a
delicious way to be healthier and even less
painful!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more we learn
about what nature offers us via medicinal plants,
the more we will want to thank nature! Green tea is a common
beverage sourced from such medicinal plants. Green tea via several pharmacological activities and antinociceptive
effects are proposed to be effective for pain relief due
to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Green tea is explained
to be a safe and often effective treatment for pain management
owing to its suppression of inflammation
and oxidative stress. (2) Green tea’s major component, EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate),
has shown itself to be a valuable anti-inflammatory
factor as well as anti-oxidant. Research papers have published
how green tea helps diseases like neurodegenerative
and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and obesity. Green tea and
its EGCG seem to curb the expression of inflammatory cytokines
and inflammation-linked enzymes. The use of green tea potentially
enhances the quality of life for inflammatory disease patients without severe adverse side-effects. (3) Back pain and its related
spinal pain conditions like leg, arm, and neck pain, etc., typically have inflammatory components with them, so increasing
consumption of green tea for its anti-inflammatory benefit may be a
plus.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox, on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
illustrates the interaction of the immune system and pain and
the capability of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management to reduce back pain.
Make your Tonawanda chiropractic
appointment soon. If you can’t sit for
teatime at home, turn your trip to Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation into teatime with a mug of green tea! Visit soon!